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GE to expand sodium-halide battery plant with $70M investment

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GE will invest an additional $70 million to expand its sodium-halide battery manufacturing plant in New York, which is part of the company’s new Energy Storage business. New York State committed $15 million when the new plant was announced in May 2009, and $5 million was committed by Schenectady County’s Metroplex Development Authority.

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Fraunhofer team develops process to recycle carbon black from car tires

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A new process developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP is able to isolate almost all of this ash—allowing both the carbon black and the minerals from the ash to be reused. Over the longer term, the idea is to make the transition from a batch process to a continuous process. © Fraunhofer IBP.

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

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As coal plants close, they leave behind empty building shells and scores of lost jobs. Such a conversion has never been done, but the report is another sign that the idea is gaining momentum—if with the slow steps of a baby needing decades to learn to walk. “A coal plants are planned to shutter by 2035. On 13 September, the U.S.

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Top 5 Electric Vehicle Start-Ups in India

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Startups have this innate potential to take up an idea and converting it into a viable business plan then scaling it into a massive success. In the financial year 2018-19, Okinawa reported revenue of Rs 200 crore, and it plans to build a second facility that will be operational in the first half of 2020-21.

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Six Technology Innovations in Electric Vehicle Charging

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For buildings and fleets, site-level energy needs are also factored in. The idea of using the energy stored in EV batteries for other purposes started with vehicle-to-grid (V2G). New chemistries such as sodium-ion offer promise of incremental improvement. Vehicle-to-X (V2X). EV Battery Technology.

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The Electrome: The Next Great Frontier For Biomedical Technology

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And I think it wasn’t sort of defined consistently always because there’s this idea that seems to be sort of bubbling to the top, bubbling to the surface, that there are these electrical properties that the body has, and they’re not just epiphenomena, and they’re not just in the nervous system. It’s got sodium, potassium, calcium, etc.,

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Biofriendly Transient Devices Emerge

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Ameer said he and his colleagues would not have moved forward with the idea if they did not think it was safe. It is composed of food-grade algae powder added to a graphene suspension composed of graphite, sodium cholate, and deionized water, then dried to form a nanocomposite sheet.