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Massive manufacturing facility still on the way for Henderson

It’s going to take longer than expected for Haas Automation to open its 2.5 million-square-foot manufacturing facility in Henderson. The company has asked the city of Henderson to extend the completion date included in its development agreement with the municipality for the 2.5 million-square-foot manufacturing facility south of the Henderson Executive Airport from April 2024 to the end of 2026, according to documents filed with the city of Henderson. Haas Automation makes machine tools used by companies in a wide variety of industries to handle or manipulate metal and other materials. “COVID and supply chain issues, increased…

LUNC Price Prediction: It Exhibits Weakness, Can it Slump More?

LUNC, previously Luna, is the first token of the Terra blockchain, which changed its name to Terra Classic after the Terra community’s governance proposal 1623. This was because of the UST de-pegging event. The original chain still works, but market swaps (mint/burn function) are turned off, and LUNC shows this old chain. LUNC crypto is the main staking asset of the Terra Classic network. It’s used for protecting the Proof of Stake (PoS) network and for joining in governance proposals. Even though the depegging event and the making of a new Terra chain happened, LUNC crypto keeps its use in the Terra Classic ecosystem. It works as…

Bitcoin Halving 2024: How It Works and Why It Matters

Reviewed By Reviewed By Updated: Jan 4, 2024, 2:49pm The available supply of fiat currencies rises and falls under the watchful eyes of national central banks, but the total supply of is fixed and immutable. There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin. Presently, more than 19 million Bitcoins have already been mined, leaving under 2 million left to be created. The Bitcoin protocol periodically reduces the number of new coins earned by miners in a process called halving. “One of the most important features of Bitcoin is its limited supply and issuance mechanism,” says Bruce Fenton, CEO of fintech company Chainstone Labs. Halving’s…

Week-long Tube strike could cost London economy £100m a day

London ’s economy could be dealt a blow of £100m per day during next week’s crippling Tube strikes , analysis suggests, as business groups claim the industrial action could help tip the UK into recession. There will be little to no service across the entire London Underground from Monday to Thursday after the strikes begin on Sunday evening, after RMT members voted by over 90 per cent against an “unacceptable” below inflation pay offer of 5 per cent. While RMT general secretary Mick Lynch has urged Transport for London (TfL) to “enter into meaningful conciliatory talks to avert disruption”, the body insists its pay offer “is the…

First Vineyard Wind Turbine Now Producing Power

Vineyard Wind, a large offshore wind farm project that has been years in the making, said it would have 5 of the 62 turbines it plans to install producing electricity by the end of 2023. It didn’t happen. Instead, a little before midnight on January 2, 2024, one turbine began sending 5 MW of power to shore, where it will help power the New England electrical grid. Project leaders chalked up the delay to a bit of bad weather, some extra precautions, and a steep learning curve, according to WBUR . A steep learning curve, indeed! Vineyard Wind is the first large offshore wind project to start producing electricity in the United States…