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New tax rule could save consumers thousands on home energy tech

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Earlier this week (11 December), the government announced that VAT relief on Energy Saving Materials (ESMs) in residential buildings will be extended to include home batteries, power diverters and water-source heat pumps from 1 February 2024.

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Why I Became An Advocate for Girls and Women

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He was one of two mukhtars who represented the village of Kafr Al-Maa, in Irbid, Jordan. He was the leader of the largest clan in the Arabic village, located in the denuded eastern foothills of the Jordan Valley. For three years, she helped build the family’s 250-square-meter house while my father traveled for work.

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IU scientists create self-assembling biocatalyst for the production of hydrogen; modified hydrogenase in a virus shell

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In addition, P22-Hyd both breaks the chemical bonds of water to create hydrogen and also works in reverse to recombine hydrogen and oxygen to generate power. Jordan, a postdoctoral researcher at Alios BioPharma, who was an IU Ph.D. Jordan, Dustin P. Thielges, an assistant professor of chemistry; Ethan J. Edwards, a Ph.D.

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This Startup Uses the MIT Inventor App to Teach Girls Coding

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An app to track police vehicles Last year Code Girls United’s advanced class held in Kalispell received a special request from Jordan Venezio , the city’s police chief. She incorporated building an app with general computer science concepts such as conditionals, logic flow, and variables. The teachers are paid a stipend.

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Our new Australian myenergi HQ

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Our co-founder and CMO, Jordan Brompton commented: “We are extremely excited to be launching our new subsidiary in Australia. Our international expansion programme is building with impressive momentum, with subsidiaries already operational in Germany, Ireland and The Netherlands.

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Breakthrough on salt-tolerant wheat

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Salty soils are a major problem because if sodium starts to build up in the leaves it will affect important processes such as photosynthesis, which is critical to the plant’s success. It produces a protein that removes the sodium from the cells lining the xylem, which are the pipes plants use to move water from their roots to their leaves.

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New GM EcoTec3 engine family for 2014 Silverado and Sierra pickups; direct injection, cylinder deactivation and CVVT

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Although the EcoTec3 engines for the 2014 Silverado and Sierra are all new—sharing just a handful of small parts with previous engines—they build on a foundation of more than 100 million Small Block engines and billions of real-world customer miles. —Jordan Lee, Small Block chief engineer and program manager.

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