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Rejoice My Tongan Brothers and Sisters! You Will Soon Be Rid of Your Ridiculous Royal Family & You Can Now Save Yourselves

Creative Greenius

For months now I’ve tried to work with King George Topou V and the rest of the Royal Family of Tonga in an attempt to inform them about the risks their kingdom faces from climate change and to get them to act on behalf of their people. You needed a solar Tonga project like yesterday.

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SpaceX delivers truckload of Starlink dishes to Ukraine, as promised

Teslarati

Otherwise, the only explanation is that SpaceX is continuing a sort of unplanned field test that began with the island nation of Tonga and is attempting to connect Ukrainian Starlink users to distant ground stations using communications lasers installed on a new generation of satellites. First, the dishes require quite a lot of power to run.

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We Are ALL Tongan

Creative Greenius

The idyllic island kingdom of Tonga. My friend Elizabeth is from the South Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga, an exotic locale long fixed in my memory with images of Polynesian paradise. Tonga has sadly been in the news lately after an inter-island ferry sank on August 5 drowning over 70 people. Mine too of course.

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

Cars That Think

"We are committed to turning those rocks into metal using renewable power and with zero solid waste," Shesky says. Raw materials nodule The Metals Company Agencies from seventeen nations have exploration contracts in the CCZ from the International Seabed Authority.

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