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Ford cuts global water use 8.5% per vehicle from 2011 to 2012; total usage down 62% since 2000

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Since 2000, Ford has reduced the amount of water used around the world from 64 million cubic meters to 24 million cubic meters—a reduction of about 10.6 Ford voluntarily launched its Global Water Management Initiative in 2000, putting in place ways to manage water conservation, quality and reuse of storm and process water.

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mtu Hybrid PowerPack from Rolls-Royce enters passenger rail service

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The Hybrid PowerPack combines a diesel engine, which complies with the EU Stage V emissions directive, with an electric machine, which can be used either as an electric motor or generator, and an mtu EnergyPack battery system, which stores the energy recovered during braking.

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KERI researchers develop high-capacity Li-metal battery with improved rate performance and stability

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However, lithium can form dendrites if it is not uniformly and effectively stored when cycling process, leading to large volume expansion of electrode, which in turn may shorten the battery’s cycle life and cause safety issues such as fire and explosion triggered by internal short-circuits.

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Perseverance will pay off as feminine store proprietor commemorated as govern in nation

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She and her good friend had been the one ladies to rush an auto store magnificence in highschool, and he or she attended a half-day program introduced through an area technical faculty her senior age. At the first occasion of sophistication in 2000, she recalled the teacher announcing, “Sweetie, I think you’re in the wrong room.”

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Nearly 20% of intact tropical forest landscapes overlap with extractive industries

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Only 20% of tropical forests can be considered “intact,” but those areas store some 40% of the above-ground carbon found in all tropical forests. Intact forests are declining rapidly, with more than 7 percent of their total area lost between 2000 and 2013.

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Rolls-Royce Power Systems road map for climate-neutrality; 35% cut by 2030 from 2019; key role of mtu engines

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The certification means that the new generation of Series 2000 and 4000 engines, that currently account for 85% of our sales revenues, will be qualified to run on second-generation bio-fuels and on E-fuels. —Dr Otto Preiss, Chief Technology Officer and COO of Rolls-Royce Power Systems. but also second-generation biofuels).

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Researchers at Korea University develop high-performance textile-based electrodes for watersplitting

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An electrochemical water-splitting reaction offers an effective pathway to generate hydrogen fuels and store electricity from various intermittent but renewable energy sources. The overall-water-splitting reaction of full-cell electrodes was stably maintained at a remarkably high current density of 2000 mA cm ?2

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