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Materials science as key enabler for clean energy transition

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If you don’t change direction, you will end up where you are heading,” said Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism. Energy use is projected to climb to 629 quad BTUs by 2020, and 813 quad BTUs by 2040. Here, we give an overview of the opportunities that recent exciting results in materials science may open in selected areas of energy research.

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Yunnan Investment Group and BYD to open new energy vehicle plants in Southwest China

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Yunnan Investment Holdings Group and BYD intend to open new energy vehicle manufacturing plants in Yunnan Province, expanding BYD’s EV and new-energy businesses into southwest China and neighboring Asian countries. The BYD-Yunnan cooperation will follow three stages over the coming year. —Yunnan Authorities.

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JBEI researchers use proteomics to ID 1750 unique proteins in switchgrass

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Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have used advanced proteomic techniques to identify 1,750 unique proteins in shoots of switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), a North American native prairie grass that is viewed as a promising biofuel crop candidate. —Lao et al. Ronald, Joshua L.

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Study: countries seeking to cut CO2 emissions must get a handle on city-level emissions

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Using China as a model, the team compared emissions data from 180 cities across the country, looking at the industrial make-up of each city, its socioeconomic profile, and the types of energy produced and consumed. Energy-producing cities, and cities with lots of manufacturing, have higher CO 2 outputs than high-tech and service-based cities.

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Self-Destructing Circuits and More Security Schemes

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If it picks up that signal it engages what Lao called a protection engine, logic that can guard against the attack by, for example, instructing the processor to encrypt its data traffic. In comparison to… always-on protection, the detection-driven protection incurs less delay and less energy overhead,” he said. picofarads.

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What is EVSE?

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EVSE systems include the electrical conductors, related equipment, software, and communications protocols that deliver energy efficiently and safely to the vehicle.” The first sentence is easy enough to understand. So if we want to move forward, it’s important to pay attention to EVSEs as well.

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DEKRA-certified tests: Mercedes-Benz HD trucks cut fuel consumption 22% in 20 years while meeting more stringent emissions rules; VECTO

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The August 2016 testing by commercial vehicle magazine Lastauto Omnibus (LaO) compared the latest generation of the Mercedes-Benz Actros long-distance truck compared to the basic model of 1996—a Mercedes-Benz from the SK model series and therefore one of the last representatives of the pre-Actros era. l/100 km (5.76 l/100 km (6.28

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