Tesla will accept bitcoins when miners use more renewable energy sources: Elon Musk

In a tweet, Elon Musk, Tesla Inc’s CEO said, the electric carmarker will accept bitcoin transactions when miners who verify transactions use more renewable energy. “When there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy usage by miners with positive future trend, Tesla will resume allowing Bitcoin transactions,” said Musk in a tweet. Following Musk’s tweet, the…

Siemens and AES enter into a 50-50 JV to service the growing energy storage market

The energy storage market is slated to grow 10 folds between 2016 to 2022, in the U.S. alone. German engineering conglomerate along with American energy firm AES Corp, have formed a joint venture to service the rapidly expanding energy storage market. Demand for large-scale energy storage is growing rapidly and the price of advanced batteries…