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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

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Google’s Equiano runs from Portugal down Africa’s west coast, landing at Lagos and Cape Town. For comparison, Google’s Durant , from Virginia to France, has a record-holding capacity of 250 terabits per second.) After SAEx was first announced in 2011, that was the initial plan: connect South Africa to Brazil.

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Battelle team developing new hybrid direct coal-to-liquids process to produce jet fuel; lower costs and GHGs

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He will present more findings in August at the 2016 International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa. Chauhan’s team has successfully tested numerous, novel bio-solvents with bituminous coal from West Virginia and Ohio, as well as a sub-bituminous coal.

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NSF Awards Rutgers $7.6M for Sustainable Energy Development, Graduate Education

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Rutgers will focus on replacing environmentally harmful fossil fuels with renewable, economically sustainable fuels in collaboration with universities in the US, Brazil, China and South Africa. The grant is valued at up to $3.2 million over five years. “ Nanotechnology for clean energy generation and storage.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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The southwest province of Yunnan derives about 70 percent of its electricity from hydropower, slightly more than the percentage in Washington state, while Shandong, a coastal province in the east, derives about 90 percent of its electricity from coal, similar to West Virginia. An EV operated in Shandong or West Virginia emits about 6 percent.