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MIT and IEA reports take different views of the future of natural gas in transportation

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While compressed natural gas (CNG) will play a role, particularly for high-mileage fleets, the report suggests that the chemical conversion of gas into some form of liquid fuel may be the best pathway to significant market penetration. MIT: leaning toward conversion for light-duty vehicles. Natural gas to fuel conversion processes.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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In subsequent decades, the company was accused of stealing Western intellectual property , supplying sensitive telecoms equipment to North Korea and Iran , and expanding its global market share by undercutting Western telecom equipment prices by as much as a third. Huawei has since been blocked from 5G networks in the Netherlands. So the U.S.

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Integrated solar-driven system for electrochemical energy storage and water electrolysis for H2 production

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A team from UCLA and colleagues from Tarbiat Modares University and Shahed University in Iran have devised an integrated solar-powered system for both electrochemical energy storage and water electrolysis. Rahmanifar, Maher F. El-Kady, Abolhassan Noori, Mir F. Mousavi, Richard B. 2017.09.010.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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Schneider: And from our earlier conversations, you told me about a class that you were teaching. I mean, when I go and I buy a ladder at the big-box hardware store, if I fall off of it because it’s faulty, there’s somebody I can sue. So I think that Russia, North Korea, Iran, they’re the geopolitical peasants, so to speak.

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