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Echion and CBMM partner to build 2000 t/year manufacturing capacity for anode-grade niobium oxides

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The facility—due to open in early 2024— will have the capacity to supply material equivalent to 1GWh of battery cell production. The facility—due to open in early 2024— will have the capacity to supply material equivalent to 1GWh of battery cell production.

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Renault and Itaipu to collaborate on EVs in Brazil

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Renault and Itaipu signed a collaboration deal which will lead to the local assembling of 32 Renault Twizy at Itaipu’s EV Research, Development and Assembly Center (CPDM-VE/IB) in Foz do Iguaçu, State of Paraná, Brazil. Itaipu, owned by the governments of Brazil and Paraguay, operates the Itaipu dam across the Paraná River.

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Honda begins operation of 1st wind farm by an automaker in Brazil; covering electricity needs for annual local auto production

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Honda Energy), Honda’s wind power generation business subsidiary in Brazil, has begun operation of its wind power generation facility. Honda thereby the first automaker in Brazil to start a wind power generation business. Honda Energy will be proactive in promoting the use of renewable energy in Brazil.

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Petrobras directing supercomputer capacity to Folding@home Project effort on coronavirus

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Launched in 2000, the Folding@home project is a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, including the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins implicated in a variety of diseases. It brings together citizen scientists who volunteer to run simulations of protein dynamics on their personal computers.

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The Richer They Get, the More Meat They Eat

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The world’s production of meat and poultry reached about 100 million tonnes in 1970, 233 million tonnes in 2000, and 325 million tonnes in 2020. In 2020, average supply rates in India and Bangladesh were still below 5 kg of carcass weight per year, per capita—a bit less than in Ethiopia. That represents a tripling since 1970.

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Smith School lifecycle study highlights importance for algae-derived biodiesel of co-product utilization and optimizing and decarbonizing every step of the supply chain

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for conventional diesel reflects the minimum fossil energy requirements for oil-based diesel production, and that the industry has become more energy intensive with unconventional oil resources from oil shale and tar sands already accounting for 12% of US crude oil production in the year 2000. They noted that an EBR of 1.2

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Korean consortium forming JV with Bolivian miner Comibol for lithium production in Salar de Uyuni

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The deal makes Korea the first country to do battery business with Bolivia.About 10 countries including the US, Japan, France and Brazil competed to partner with the Latin American nation, the state-run mineral developer said. The global lithium market has been expanding by 6% annually since 2000, according to KORES.

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