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EC approves second major battery innovation project; €2.9B (US$3.5B) from 12 member states

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The project, called “European Battery Innovation” (EuBatIn) was jointly prepared and notified by Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. The twelve Member States will provide up to €2.9 billion (US$3.5 billion) in funding in the coming years.

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European Commission approves up to €5.4B of public support for IPCEI Hy2Tech; 41 hydrogen projects

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The European Commission approved , under EU State aid rules, an Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) to support research and innovation and first industrial deployment in the hydrogen technology value chain. As a result, positive spill-over effects will be generated throughout Europe.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer. Tampere, an inland Finnish industrial city of nearly 250,000 people, is an ideal testing ground for this new technology.

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Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs

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This marks the most significant improvement in global fuel standards for the shipping industry in 100 years, and is intended to achieve significant health benefits on a global scale. Refining industries will invest in the necessary technology to produce, and shipping will invest to adapt engine systems to use, the cleaner fuels.

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VTT and Deinove Partner to Optimize Ethanol and Chemicals Production from Renewable Feedstocks Using Self-Repairing Extremophile Deinococcus

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Deinove, a company specializing in the systematic exploration of the bacterial genus Deinococcus for biofuels and green chemistry, will partner with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The Deinol process will then be scaled-up and tested in an industrial pilot by the sugar company Tereos. The Deinol project has received with €8.9

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Putin has highlighted on various occasions the contribution Russia’s mineral wealth, in particular oil and natural gas, must make for Russia to be able to sustain economic growth, promote industrial development, catch up with the developed economies, and modernize Russia’s military and military industry. Live by Energy….

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Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it 

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We will be looking at some of them in this article. Also, the aluminium, which has a high relative impact, is assumed to be sourced from the US while most of the raw materials for the cathode and anode are sourced from where the production is concentrated such as Chile, DRC, Finland, China and Australia.