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title: "Digits: Solar sheep, a PornHub ban, and more"
description: "Plus: India’s electric boom, cheap pheromones, and Saudi tourism."
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# [Digits: Solar sheep, a PornHub ban, and more](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/news/09062022-digits)

 Written by [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/news/author/jacob-cohen) | Sep 6, 2022 5:51:33 AM

**1)** Sheep now clear weeds on [**tens of thousands of US solar fields**](https://www.wsj.com/articles/sheep-solar-industry-panel-fields-11662390795?mod=hp_featst_pos5) that pay shepherds up to $500/acre annually. Sheep are more versatile than horses, cows, and power mowers, and better behaved than goats.

**2)** In India, automakers sold 430k electric vehicles in the year ending in March, a [**3x increase**](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/04/business/energy-environment/india-electric-vehicles-moped-rickshaw.html) YoY. Cars accounted for just 18k of those, with two- and three-wheeled vehicles making up the rest.

**3) **A month after Visa and Mastercard suspended card payments for advertising on PornHub, the site’s [**13.1m-follower Instagram account**](https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/instagram-bans-pornhub-account-removed-1235359364/) was taken down.

**4)** Researchers have developed a cheaper process for manufacturing pheromones — used by some farmers to confuse bugs and prevent reproduction — that [**could cost $70-$125 per kilo**](https://www.science.org/content/article/researchers-just-made-it-easier-and-cheaper-confuse-crop-pests), down from $1k-$3.5k per kilo.

**5) **Saudi Arabia plans to invest[** $1T over the next decade**](https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-is-betting-1-trillion-it-can-become-the-next-tourist-hotspot-11662283802) into its tourism industry, aiming to draw 55m tourists annually by 2030. In the first half of 2022, 6.1m paid a visit.

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