5 best news for January
Boeing will begin production of biofuel aircraft
Boeing Aerospace Corporation will start producing aircraft that will run entirely on biofuels by 2030.
“To refuel the aircraft with environmentally friendly” fuel “, Boeing will need to modify the engines and other systems of the aircraft. In addition, you will need a certificate confirming the safe operation of the aircraft,” – said in a press release.
According to the US Department of Energy, the use of new fuels can reduce CO2 emissions by 80%. According to the Air Transport Action Group, which studies more environmentally friendly solutions in aviation, commercial flights now account for about 2% of all greenhouse gas emissions and 12% of all transport emissions.
Ukraine has offered investors 30 deposits
Ukraine has offered domestic and foreign investors 30 deposits with deposits of strategic and critical mineral resources. Minerals will be put up for electronic bidding. This was stated by the executive director of the government office for attracting and supporting investment UkraineInvest Sergei Tsyvkach, according to the website of the department.
According to him, the total amount of foreign direct investment in the extractive industry as of September 30, 2020 amounted to 4.7 billion dollars. At the same time, Tsyvkach believes that the investment proposals of Gosgeonadr may bring Ukraine more than $10 billion in the near future.
He noted that the government office will include these 30 objects in the Investment Guide UkraineInvest and will inform potential investors about them.
It is emphasized that for the first time sites with deposits of lithium, titanium, nickel, cobalt, chromium, tantalum, niobium, beryllium, zirconium, scandium, molybdenum, gold and uranium can be purchased at transparent electronic auctions.
By 2023, one in five BMWs will have an electric motor
BMW CEO Oliver Zipse told Augsburger Allgemeine that the concern plans to significantly increase the production of electric vehicles in the coming years. According to the head of the company, by 2023 about 20% of the cars produced by the concern will be equipped with an electric motor. Now this figure is only 8%.
“We are significantly increasing the number of electric cars. In the period from 2021 to 2023, we will build a quarter of a million more electric cars than originally planned. At the same time, our previous plans were far from conservative,” Tsipse told the publication.
The head of BMW noted that in 2022 all four plants of the concern in Germany will produce electric cars. And by 2023, the company’s lineup will include 25 models of cars with electric motors.
SpaceX sets a new world record – Falcon 9 rocket launches a total of 143 satellites
SpaceX has successfully launched 143 small satellites – by one launch vehicle. The launch was made from a spaceport in Florida.
On Sunday, January 24, at 8:30 a.m. on the East Coast of the United States, SpaceX launched a heavy Falcon launch vehicle to launch the Transporter-1 satellites. The previous day, the first attempt to launch was postponed due to weather conditions.
The Transporter-1 mission is notable for the first launch of 143 spacecraft by a single launch vehicle. Also, for the first time, a complex scheme of launching satellites into orbit at different time intervals was used. The total weight of the satellites is more than 5 tons.
Among the launched satellites are 10 Starlink global devices to provide users with high-speed broadband Internet access in places where it was unreliable, expensive or completely inaccessible.
In 2020, China set a record for attracting foreign investment
China in 2020 attracted investments from abroad in the amount of $144.37 billion, which is 4.5% more than a year earlier. In terms of the national currency, foreign direct investment amounted to 999.98 billion yuan and increased by 6.2%, according to the Ministry of Commerce of China and called the growth of investment from abroad a historical record for the country.
At the same time, the share of foreign investment in services exceeded 77% of the total. In 2020, it grew by 13.9% to $112.14 billion (776.7 billion yuan). Investments in high-tech industries increased by 11.4%, in innovation – by 28.5%. Including – the growth of investments in research and development amounted to 78.8%, in the implementation of innovative developments – 52.7%, e-commerce – 15.1%, telecom -11.6%.