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Why is Hydroelectricity So Green, and Yet Unfashionable?

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I live in Manitoba , a province of Canada where all but a tiny fraction of electricity is generated from the potential energy of water. And some less affluent countries in Africa and Asia are still determined to build more such stations. This article appears in the November 2022 print issue as “Hydropower, the Forgotten Renewable.”.

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Starlink reaches critical subscriber milestone in new segment

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Starlink’s success on the water follows another milestone earlier this year : the company announced that it had reached 1.5 Besides growing into key new market segments , SpaceX has continued its efforts to expand internet access into global markets, including numerous countries in Africa, South and Central America, and Oceania.

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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The IEEE member from Kigali, Rwanda, participated in installing portable sinks in nearby rural markets to curb the spread of COVID-19 and provided clean water and sanitation services to people displaced by the Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption in 2021. She also got involved in organizing conferences in Africa.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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Several research articles he came across said it was impossible to create such a machine because it would be unable to print motors and other electronic parts. I'm a very competitive person," he says, "so I was motivated to try and disprove these articles and actually build this device.". The incoming freshman at MIT won $600.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

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This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer. This story looks at promising research out of Japan’s Shinshu University on light-absorbing materials to split water into hydrogen and oxygen directly—cutting the electrolyzer out of the equation.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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During a House Financial Services Committee hearing in October 2019, Representative Maxine Waters D-Calif.) Waters said, “That’s not a commitment.” This article appears in the December 2023 print issue as “Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currencies.” The Final Pillar Elias Stein Pillar 4 is financial inclusion.

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Electric vehicles trends in India

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Read the complete article to know more about electric vehicles trends in India. . As per the company, this is the largest amount that is raised by an electric mobility company in all of Sub-Saharan Africa. The funding raised by the company will be used to scale its operations in electric motorcycle and bus manufacturing in Africa.

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