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Celgard enters into joint development agreement for separator technology with Morrow for high-voltage LNMO cells

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Celgard, a subsidiary of Polypore International, entered into a multi-year joint development agreement with Morrow Batteries AS ( earlier post ). The LNMO technology is a more sustainable solution that uses cheap manganese as a scaffold to make better use of the lithium and nickel inside it. Source: Morrow Batteries.

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What Does It Take To Win The EV Race As A Country?

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If you come across a safe and reliable battery technology it can be used in the country’s space mission or you found a better alloy that is cheap to produce or lighter in weight and performs well under load it can be used in other sectors or even in the gasoline cars to increase efficiency and reduce carbon emission.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

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Even before all this, just a week after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued a press release titled, “How Europe can cut natural gas imports from Russia significantly within a year.” He regards it as misinformation “coming from an industry that is under threat.”

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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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It’s pretty nasty,” says Michael Bender, the international coordinator of the Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG). Four industry insiders ultimately confirmed that Apollo Fusion was building thrusters that utilized mercury propellant. And it’s cheap—there’s not a lot of competition with anyone looking to buy mercury.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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By delivering the migrants there, the masters of the Maltese vessels, and perhaps the European rescue authorities involved, may have violated the international law of the sea, which requires ship masters to return people they rescue to a safe port. Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, in Norway.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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Most of this was driven by Europe, where strict cash penalties levied directly on automakers, for each ICE (internal-combustion engine) sold, came into effect January 2020 — and simply worked! France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US. Yup, yup, yup.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

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There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Fuel cells had been promoted in some sectors as the best alternative to the internal combustion engine. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term.