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Elon Musk shares insights during World Water Forum in Indonesia

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He also says he believes that the cost of desalination will continue to decrease dramatically, not unlike how the cost of solar has dropped over the last several years. Musk also fielded a couple of questions during the speech, both about solving the water crisis and performing R&D in the desalination sector.

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Alumobility study: aluminum top hat provides automakers a lighter, sustainable alternative

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Introduced at Automotive Circle’s annual EuroCarBody conference, the study’s aluminum top hat achieved 42% weight savings compared to the reference top hat of the current Audi e-tron electric SUV, which uses advanced (AHSS) and ultra-high-strength steels (UHSS). —Mark White, Executive Director of Alumobility.

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Report finds road transportation sector in Canada likely to fall far short of 2050 GHG emissions reduction target

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A new Conference Board of Canada report finds that Canada is unlikely to achieve an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050. The report develops two cases: a reference case and a continuous improvement case. The report finds that an additional 9.7–15.0 Mt short of the 80-by-50 goal.

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What is ChaoJi?

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Promoting electric vehicles has become an essential strategy for all countries, and the industrialization process is advancing continuously.At The world electric vehicle industry urgently needs a unified, safe, and compatible charging interface. Hence, allowing one charging station to adapt to more electric vehicles becomes critical.

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Study suggests that decarbonizing US transport sector by converting waste CO2 to fuels would require economical air-capture of CO2

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pre- and post- decarbonization of the electric power sector—to which he referred as pre-CCS and post-CCS, respectively (although decarbonization was not necessarily via CCS—carbon capture and storage).) owned by) a power plant; careful integration between the two plants will reduce costs (not studied in detail here).

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UC Davis ITS study suggests hastening consumer adoption of plug-ins will require innovation on the sales side

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The highly decentralized nature of the current automative sales franchise model, in which contractual arrangements and franchise laws confer a great degree of operating freedom to new car dealers, translates into divergent processes across the dealer community. —Cahill et al. Power & Associates, and the Center for Sustainable Energy.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Although not part of the conferences formal structure, the themes were addressed in the presentations and panel discussions.

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