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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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Nighttime satellite images show that the heart of the continent remains in darkness: electrification rates are less than 5 percent in Chad and the Central African Republic, and the rates remain below 50 percent in such populous countries as Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Sudan. What does 50 kWh/year deliver?

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NREL study finds high-pressure hydrogen pipeline system could potentially make hydrogen cost-competitive with gasoline

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This article compares the economics of various existing hydrogen-delivery methods with the economics of a novel variation on pipeline delivery: a high-pressure, scalable, intra-city pipeline system referred to here as the “HyLine” system. —Penev et al. 2019.10.005.

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Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium gets key North Carolina mining permit – ET Auto

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Phillips on Sunday had phoned Chad Brown, chair of the county board of commissioners, to discuss the state’s decision and ask for a meeting. ” Four of the board’s seven members have terms that will end this December. “We will not rush into anything.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Tao Images/Alamy. Nevertheless, Article 89 of the GDPR allows them to retain data “for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes" in “the public interest." The Great Boston Fire of 1872.

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UCR team finds adding even small amounts of tin to Si-based anode greatly improves charge capacity and cycling stability

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Mangolini (2016) “Tin nanoparticles as an effective conductive additive in silicon anodes” Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 30952 doi: 10.1038/srep30952. The project was led by Lorenzo Mangolini, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering in UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering. Resources.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Cortada is also a contributor to IEEE Spectrum , most recently of an article this month entitled " How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market ," and in that sense I'm delighted to call him a colleague. You're getting a lot of interesting comments on the article in Spectrum , I understand. He joins us by Skype.

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Nth Cycle says its electroextraction tech significantly reduces transportation costs for Li-ion battery recycling

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My co-founder Chad Vecitis, who’s now our VP of R&D, was a full-time professor at Harvard and actually developed this technology over 10 years ago. This article appeared in Charged Issue 56 – July/Aug 2021 – Subscribe now. While I was at my PhD, that’s actually where we developed the core technology.

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