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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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Read the C&EN research here Lithium right now is very expensive and Sodium is quite cheap. And we can expect large Na-Ion gigafactories only in the mid 2020’s. Apart from the cost, there is no risk of thermal runaway with Na-Ion. If the batteries were 30-40% cheaper, that would reduce the costs of EV’s.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

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The pipeline had been completed at a cost of €9.5 The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. In 2010 European natural-gas production covered half of all consumption, but by 2020 that share was down to 40 percent.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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IPCC reference emissions scenarios, 2000—2100. Neil Adger and Jon Barnett lay out four “reasons for concern about adaptation” to climate change, to counter “what we perceive to be a widespread belief that adaptation will be smooth, cheap, and easy to implement.”. by Jack Rosebro. Inset box represents. instrumental records.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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The program will reduce emissions fifteen percent below 2005 levels by 2020. These recommendations call for an economy-wide program that would reduce emissions twenty percent below 2005 levels by 2020, and eighty percent below 2005 levels by 2050, though the 2020 target may decrease to eighteen percent if allowance prices increase too much.

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