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Food box delivery service HelloFresh receives seven refrigerated Mercedes-Benz eVito vans

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Together with food box provider HelloFresh from Belgium, the company held a series of workshops, created process analyses and, on the basis of accompanying the drivers on their routes, determined the needs and requirements of the customers.

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Figuring Out Semiconductor Manufacturing's Climate Footprint

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Moore for IEEE Spectrum ‘s Fixing the Future podcast. Lizzie Boakes is a life cycle analyst in the Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems Program at IMEC , the Belgium-based nanotech research organization. So if there are— you have power in your purchasing, you have power over how you choose your supply chain.

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How the EU Chips Act Could Build “Innovation Capacity” in Europe

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To accomplish that increase in chip capacity, the legislation will approve appropriations for R&D, incentivize manufacturing, and take steps to make the supply chain more secure. The idea is that there will be design capacity in each and every member state through competence centers. They need to be really close to each other.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” Green dots are possible sites for future charging stations.

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Aarhus team seeking to produce bioethanol from biomass by leveraging panda gut microbiome

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In a study published this year in the Journal Frontiers of Microbiology , Scoma and his team collected gut microbiomes from fresh fecal samples of a giant panda (either entirely green or yellow stools) and supplied them with green leaves or yellow pith (i.e., Scoma came up with the idea for the project during a visit to a zoo in Belgium.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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Research on human responses to climate change has so far been largely focused on efforts to mitigate the amount of future emissions, as opposed to adaptive actions. The future will be a testing time.”. —W. C, is warranted.”. In an essay published in the current issue of Environment and Planning A , researchers W.

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Keeping Moore’s Law Going is Getting Complicated

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The only way to keep up computing’s exponential pace now is a scheme called system technology cooptimization (STCO), argued researchers at ITF World 2023 last week in Antwerp, Belgium. as the Belgium-based nanotech research organization is calling it, is a complicated vision. It is functions, which are optimized for different purposes.”

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