Jennie (Blackpink) là nữ nghệ sĩ có thu nhập cao nhất Hàn Quốc

Jennie (Blackpink) dẫn đầu danh sách nữ nghệ sĩ có thu nhập cao nhất tại Hàn Quốc.

Mới đây, tạp chí Forbes Korea vừa công bố danh sách 10 người nổi tiếng quyền lực nhất Hàn Quốc năm 2025-2026.

Bảng xếp hạng dựa trên mức thu nhập trước thuế ước tính của các nghệ sĩ từ nhiều nguồn như phát hành âm nhạc, lưu diễn, hoạt động diễn xuất, quảng cáo, hợp tác thương hiệu và các lĩnh vực kinh doanh khác.

Theo thống kê của Forbes Korea, Jennie (Blackpink) là nữ nghệ sĩ solo Hàn Quốc có thu nhập cao nhất trong giai đoạn 2025-2026 với mức ước tính lên tới 25,2 triệu USD.

Jennie là nữ nghệ sĩ solo Hàn Quốc có thu nhập cao nhất trong giai đoạn 2025-2026 với mức ước tính lên tới 25,2 triệu USD. Ảnh Naver

Thành tích này phản ánh sức ảnh hưởng mạnh mẽ của nữ ca sĩ không chỉ trong lĩnh vực âm nhạc mà còn ở thời trang, quảng cáo và kinh doanh.

Nguồn thu lớn nhất của Jennie đến từ OA Entertainment (Odd Atelier) - công ty riêng do cô thành lập và vận hành.

Theo báo cáo tài chính, OA Entertainment chi trả cho Jennie khoảng 9,5 tỉ won (tương đương 6,5 triệu USD) trong năm 2025 và gần 14,3 tỉ won (khoảng 9,8 triệu USD) trong năm 2024. Khoản thu nhập này chủ yếu đến từ hoạt động quảng cáo, lưu diễn và các dự án cá nhân.

Bên cạnh đó, Jennie tiếp tục khẳng định vị thế là một trong những ngôi sao quảng cáo đắt giá nhất châu Á. Được mệnh danh là "Human Chanel", nữ thần tượng duy trì vai trò đại sứ toàn cầu của Chanel, đồng thời mở rộng hợp tác với nhiều thương hiệu quốc tế như Calvin Klein, Ray-Ban và Vaseline. Các hợp đồng quảng bá thương hiệu được cho là mang lại nguồn doanh thu đáng kể cho nữ ca sĩ.

Âm nhạc solo cũng đóng góp phần quan trọng vào tổng thu nhập của Jennie. Các ca khúc cá nhân của cô tiếp tục duy trì sức hút trên những nền tảng phát nhạc trực tuyến như Spotify và Melon.

Đặc biệt, album Ruby giúp Jennie thu về nguồn lợi nhuận từ doanh số, bản quyền và lượt phát trực tuyến trên toàn cầu.

Ngoài các hoạt động cá nhân, Jennie vẫn là thành viên của BLACKPINK và tiếp tục hợp tác với YG Entertainment trong các hoạt động nhóm.

Doanh thu từ các chuyến lưu diễn thế giới, bán vé concert, vật phẩm lưu niệm và các dự án chung của BLACKPINK tiếp tục mang về khoản thu nhập đáng kể cho nữ ca sĩ.

Nhờ sự kết hợp giữa âm nhạc, quảng cáo, thời trang và kinh doanh, Jennie đang xây dựng hình ảnh một nghệ sĩ đa lĩnh vực với khả năng tạo ra nguồn thu ổn định từ nhiều kênh khác nhau.

Mức thu nhập ước tính 25,2 triệu USD trong giai đoạn 2025-2026 cho thấy sức ảnh hưởng ngày càng lớn của thành viên Blackpink trên thị trường giải trí toàn cầu.

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Jennie (Blackpink) là nữ nghệ sĩ có thu nhập cao nhất Hàn Quốc

Paris is heating its apartments with water pulled from an aquifer two kilometres beneath the city. This is not a new idea — it has been running since the 1970s.

 

"Paris is heating its apartments with water pulled from an aquifer two kilometres beneath the city. This is not a new idea — it has been running since the 1970s.

The Paris geothermal district heating network is one of the world's largest and longest-running urban geothermal systems. The Dogger aquifer — a porous limestone formation saturated with hot saline water at around 57 to 85°C — lies beneath much of the Paris Basin at depths between 1,500 and 2,000 metres. This warm water is pumped to the surface, its heat extracted through heat exchangers, and the cooled water reinjected into the aquifer. No combustion. No emissions. Just geology, physics, and engineering.

The network currently supplies heating to over 500,000 people across the Paris metropolitan area — roughly 5% of the region's heating demand. Geothermal installations operate in dozens of Paris suburbs including Creil, Meaux, Melun, and Limeil-Brévannes, with the largest systems serving tens of thousands of homes from a single doublet well pair.

France is now accelerating expansion. The energy crisis triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 made the appeal of non-gas heating technologies urgent and political. Grants, loan guarantees, and fast-track permitting for new geothermal installations followed. By 2030, France aims to triple its geothermal heating capacity.

Paris does not advertise its underground infrastructure. It rarely does. The city focuses on the surface — art, architecture, cuisine. But two kilometres down, it has been quietly heated by the Earth for half a century.

Source: BRGM (Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières), France, 2023

#geothermalenergy #france #paris

French scientists built a portable MRI machine the size of a suitcase — deployed in ambulances, rural clinics, and conflict zones where brain imaging has never been available before.

 

French scientists built a portable MRI machine the size of a suitcase — deployed in ambulances, rural clinics, and conflict zones where brain imaging has never been available before.

Conventional MRI machines weigh 10-15 tonnes, require superconducting magnets cooled to near absolute zero, need specially shielded rooms to prevent electromagnetic interference, and cost $3-7 million to install. This infrastructure requirement means that 70% of the global population has no practical access to MRI imaging — including rural communities in every continent, conflict zones where brain injury is most prevalent, and low-income countries where neurological disease burden is highest.

Engineers at Paris Saclay University and the French Alternative Energies Commission developed the LowField-MRI system — a 75-kilogram portable MRI scanner using a novel permanent magnet array configuration and advanced reconstruction algorithms that compensate computationally for the lower signal produced by a weaker magnetic field. The system requires standard 220-volt power, produces no external magnetic hazard, and generates diagnostic-quality brain images in 8 minutes.

In field deployment trials across rural Cameroon, a Médecins Sans Frontières emergency facility in Lebanon, and a remote community in French Guiana, LowField-MRI correctly diagnosed stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, brain tumor, and hydrocephalus in 91% of cases confirmed by conventional MRI at referral centers.

Twelve suitcase MRI units are currently deployed globally.

Source: Paris Saclay University & CEA France, The Lancet, 2024

#fblifestyle

#MedicalTechnology #France #PortableMRI

India connected 900 million people to the electricity grid in four decades. Now it is rebuilding that grid for a solar-powered future — at the same breathtaking speed.

 

"India connected 900 million people to the electricity grid in four decades. Now it is rebuilding that grid for a solar-powered future — at the same breathtaking speed.

The electrification of rural India is one of the great infrastructure achievements of the modern era. In 1980, over 700 million Indians had no access to electricity. The Saubhagya scheme, launched in 2017, connected the last unelectrified villages within two years, completing a task that most experts thought would take a decade. Speed, at scale, is something India's infrastructure programme has demonstrated it can deliver.

The challenge now is different but equally vast. India's renewable energy ambitions — 500 gigawatts by 2030 — require a transmission network capable of carrying solar power from sun-rich Rajasthan and Gujarat to demand centres in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and the northern industrial belt. The existing grid was built for coal plants located near cities. The clean energy grid needs to span 3,000 kilometres.

The Green Energy Corridors programme is building exactly this — dedicated high-voltage transmission lines connecting renewable energy zones to load centres, with inter-state corridors that allow clean electricity to flow freely across India's federal grid. Phase II of the programme covers seven states and will facilitate 20 gigawatts of renewable integration.

India is also investing in grid digitalisation — smart meters, automated substations, and real-time monitoring systems that allow the grid operator to manage the variability of solar and wind at the scale India is deploying them.

The wires being strung today are the circulatory system of India's clean energy future.

Source: Ministry of Power, India / Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL), 2023"

The Netherlands has committed to 21 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030 and 70 gigawatts by 2050 without government subsidy.

 

"The Netherlands built its modern economy on windmills. Five centuries later, it is doing it again — this time with turbines the size of skyscrapers.

The Dutch relationship with wind energy is not metaphorical. Windmills drained the polders, milled the grain, and powered the workshops of the Golden Age. The country's very existence — a third of its land below sea level — was made possible by wind-powered water management. Wind technology is as Dutch as tulips and canals.

The modern iteration is offshore. The Netherlands has committed to 21 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030 and 70 gigawatts by 2050 — a trajectory that would make offshore wind the country's dominant electricity source within a generation. The North Sea, shallow and windy, is the ideal site. Dutch offshore wind projects are already among the most cost-competitive in the world.

Hollandse Kust Noord, completed in 2023, was the world's first offshore wind farm built without government subsidy — developed purely on merchant risk by Vattenfall, which bid zero subsidy in the tender. The economics of offshore wind in Dutch waters have reached the point where developers are confident enough to proceed without guaranteed prices.

The Netherlands is also pioneering the combination of offshore wind with green hydrogen production — co-locating electrolysers at sea to convert wind electricity directly to hydrogen, avoiding the need to bring all the power ashore as electricity.

The same sea that once threatened to swallow the Netherlands is now the source of its energy future.

Source: Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), 2023

#windenergy #netherlands #renewableenergy

France generates approximately 70% of its electricity from nuclear power — a higher proportion than any other nation on Earth

 

France built the most nuclear-dependent grid in the developed world — and now it's betting on nuclear to carry Europe's clean energy future.

France generates approximately 70% of its electricity from nuclear power — a higher proportion than any other nation on Earth. Built primarily during the 1970s and 1980s under a state-led industrial programme of extraordinary coordination, France's fleet of 56 operational reactors represents an engineering achievement of remarkable scale. For decades this fleet provided France with among the lowest electricity prices and carbon intensity per kilowatt-hour in all of Europe, transforming nuclear energy from a strategic military technology into a cornerstone of civilian industrial and economic policy.

France's nuclear programme now stands at a pivotal crossroads. Many existing reactors are aging, and the country faced severe maintenance challenges — including widespread corrosion issues — that reduced output significantly and contributed to European electricity price spikes in 2022 and 2023. In direct response, the French government announced construction of six new EPR2 reactors — the most significant nuclear expansion in France in a generation. These next-generation plants promise improved safety systems, greater thermal efficiency, and design standardization intended to reduce construction timelines and bring costs under tighter control than previous large nuclear projects.

France's nuclear renaissance is watched intently by policymakers across Europe and beyond. As the continent confronts energy security vulnerabilities exposed by the Russia-Ukraine conflict alongside urgent climate targets, nuclear's ability to deliver firm, carbon-free baseload power is gaining strong renewed political momentum. Nations that had committed to complete nuclear phaseouts — including Belgium and Sweden — are reconsidering their positions. France did not merely build nuclear plants. It preserved an irreplaceable industrial knowledge base that may prove indispensable to the European energy transition. Sometimes the oldest technology on the list is the right answer.

Source: Électricité de France (EDF), 2024

#NuclearEnergy #FranceEnergy #NuclearPower #CleanEnergy #LowCarbon #EnergyTransition #Sustainability #EnergyPolicy #ClimateAction #NuclearRenaissance

Japan is investing heavily in technologies that can produce synthetic fuel using water, captured carbon dioxide, and electricity, opening the possibility of creating liquid fuels without extracting crude oil.

 

Japan is investing heavily in technologies that can produce synthetic fuel using water, captured carbon dioxide, and electricity, opening the possibility of creating liquid fuels without extracting crude oil.

The process generally works by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis using renewable electricity. Carbon dioxide is then captured from industrial emissions or directly from the atmosphere and combined with hydrogen to create synthetic hydrocarbons. These fuels can be engineered into forms similar to gasoline, diesel, aviation fuel, or industrial feedstocks.

Unlike fossil fuels—which release carbon stored underground—synthetic fuels aim to recycle carbon already present in the atmosphere. If powered entirely by renewable energy, the overall emissions profile could be dramatically lower than traditional petroleum systems.

For countries like Japan with limited domestic fossil resources, this technology offers strategic value beyond climate goals. It could reduce import dependence and strengthen energy security.

However, large-scale deployment still faces challenges including efficiency losses, electricity demand, infrastructure cost, and scaling production.

If synthetic fuel becomes economical, future energy competition may shift from ownership of oil reserves toward access to renewable electricity and industrial fuel production capacity.

#UnboxFactory #SyntheticFuel #EnergyInnovation #FutureEnergy #CleanTechnology

Alfanar — a Saudi-British industrial conglomerate — is building the Lighthouse Green Fuels plant at Teesside in northeast England. The facility will convert over 175,000 tonnes of non-recyclable household waste annually into 60 million liters of sustainable aviation fuel through gasification and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis

 

Britain is building its first commercial sustainable aviation fuel plant — targeting production that would fuel every domestic UK flight.

The United Kingdom is home to some of the world's largest and most sophisticated aviation operations — Heathrow handles more international passengers than any other airport, and the UK has the third largest aviation sector in the world by passenger numbers. Decarbonizing British aviation requires a domestic SAF industry of significant scale.

Alfanar — a Saudi-British industrial conglomerate — is building the Lighthouse Green Fuels plant at Teesside in northeast England. The facility will convert over 175,000 tonnes of non-recyclable household waste annually into 60 million liters of sustainable aviation fuel through gasification and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Construction is underway with first production targeted for 2025.

The Teesside location is strategic — adjacent to the Humber region's existing petrochemical and refining infrastructure, close to major freight airports at Doncaster Sheffield and East Midlands, and within the East Coast industrial cluster that is developing carbon capture infrastructure. Captured CO₂ from the Lighthouse plant could be stored in North Sea geological formations — making the waste-to-SAF process genuinely carbon negative over its full lifecycle.

British Airways and Virgin Atlantic have signed off-take agreements with Lighthouse Green Fuels — providing the revenue certainty that made the investment decision possible.

The UK Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate — requiring 10% SAF from 2030 and 22% by 2040 — creates a guaranteed growing market that justifies the multi-billion-pound plant investment.

UK Department for Transport — 2024

#GreenAviationFuel #UK #CleanEnergy

The biggest clean energy breakthrough of 2025 is not a new solar panel. It is not a nuclear reactor. It is rust.... batteries.

 

The biggest clean energy breakthrough of 2025 is not a new solar panel. It is not a nuclear reactor. It is rust.

A company called Form Energy figured out how to store electricity by deliberately rusting iron pellets. When the grid needs power, the battery breathes in oxygen from the open air. The iron turns to rust, releasing energy. When there is excess power, an electric current runs back through it holding it in reverse. The battery exhales oxygen, turning the rust back into iron. The cycle repeats.

The result is 100 hours of continuous energy storage. Four straight days. A standard lithium-ion battery taps out after four hours.

The ingredients are iron, water, and air. No lithium. No cobalt. No heavily mined rare earth metals. Just the cheapest, most abundant metal on the planet. The batteries are shipping right now from a new factory in West Virginia, built directly on the site of an abandoned steel mill. Google just ordered a massive system. A Dutch company called Ore Energy just connected a similar system to the public grid.

The target cost is under $20 per kilowatt-hour. That is a tenth of the cost of lithium. The solution to our power grid problem is literally rust.

Germany is transforming ordinary motorway sound barriers into sources of clean renewable energy

 

Germany is transforming ordinary motorway sound barriers into sources of clean renewable energy

Along major autobahns, noise protection walls that once only reduced traffic sound are now being covered with solar panels capable of generating electricity beside some of the country’s busiest highways.

Instead of using additional farmland or natural habitats for large solar farms, the project takes advantage of infrastructure that already exists — turning thousands of kilometres of roadside barriers into productive energy systems without expanding land use.

Pilot projects along several major motorway routes have already shown impressive performance, with strong sunlight exposure and efficient energy generation helping power roadway systems like lighting and emergency equipment.

Supporters see the idea as a smart example of how cities and infrastructure can become more sustainable without requiring entirely new construction.

Germany’s roads have carried vehicles for decades.

Now they are helping carry clean energy into the future too

#SolarEnergy

#RenewableEnergy

#GreenTechnology

#SustainableFuture

#CleanPower