Elon Musk

Elon Musk

Elon Musk is a business leader and inventor who founded PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX & Solar City in the United States.

Musk is chairman of the Musk Foundation, which focuses its philanthropic efforts on providing solar-power energy systems in disaster areas. In 2010, the Musk foundation collaborated with SolarCity to donate a 25-kW solar power system to the South Bay Community Alliance’s (SBCA) hurricane response centre in Coden, Alabama.In July 2011, the Musk Foundation donatedUS$250,000 towards a solar power project in Sōma, Japan, a city that had been recently devastated by tsunami.

In July 2014, Musk was asked by cartoonist Matthew Inman and the great-nephew of Nikola Tesla (William Terbo) to donate US$8 million towards the construction of the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe. Ultimately, Musk agreed to donate US$1 million towards the project and additionally pledged to build a Tesla Supercharger in the museum car park. In January 2015, Musk donated US$10 million to the Future of Life Institute to run a global research program aimed at keeping artificial intelligence beneficial to humanity.As of 2015, Musk is a trustee of the X Prize Foundation and a signatory of The Giving Pledge.

Musk has stated that the goals of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity. His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the “risk of human extinction” by establishing a human colony on Mars.

Cause Supported: Human Right/ Environmental Efficiency / Global Warming

Source of Information: Wikipedia

Photo Credit: Elon Musk Facebook

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk

Elon Musk (譯:伊隆‧馬斯克),南非出生的美藉及加藉企業家,為SpaceX創辦人,並於2000年代因聯合創辦電動汽車公司Tesla 和PayPal(原X.com)而聞名。目前他共擔任Space X的執行主席兼首席設計師、Tesla執行主席兼產品架構師、以及SolarCity的主席。

Elon Musk除了致力發展互聯網、再生能源及太空三大業務外,同時為其慈善基金 Musk Foundation擔任主席,多年來為受天災影響地區提供太陽能發電系統。2010年,Musk Foundation與其轄下的SolarCity 合作,共捐出太陽能發電系統予阿拉巴馬South Bay Community Alliance’s (SBCA) 的颶風氣象中心。2011年,基金會亦捐助250,000美元為早前受海嘯影響的日本函館市發展太陽能計劃。2014年,Musk個人亦獲邀捐出800萬美元以建造Tesla 科學中心等。2015年,他更為Future of Life Institute捐出1千萬美元以協助該學院為其改善人類發展的人工智能進行全球研究計劃,同時擔任X Prize Foundation及The Giving Pledge的信託人。

支持項目:人權、環境、再生能源科技

資料來源: Wikipedia

圖片:Elon Musk Facebook

 

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