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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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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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Similarly, having a distribution line (often illegally rigged) running to a dwelling tells us nothing about the usage of power or the reliability of its supply. Global electrification has risen steadily since World War II, reaching 73 percent in 2000 and 90 percent in 2019 (the pandemic year of 2020 was the.

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SMR company NuScale Power successfully completes helical coil steam generator testing

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SIET) facilities in Piacenza, Italy. The entire Nuclear Steam Supply System (NSSS) is enclosed in a steel containment that is 24.6 The NuScale design was initially developed in 2000 and has been demonstrated and in testing programs since 2003 in a fully-instrumented one-third scale electrically-heated test facility in Corvallis, OR.

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New split-cycle concept to control diesel HCCI combustion

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A team from Universita degli Studi di Pisa (Italy) and Rolf Reitz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are proposing a novel combustion concept—Homogenous Charge Progressive Combustion (HCPC)—based on a split-cycle principle to control HCCI combustion in diesel-fueled engines. Turbocharged HCPC engine scheme. Click to enlarge.

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Pavna readying new plant in Hosur for TVS Motor, Ola Electric – ET Auto

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New Delhi: Pavna Industries , which recently bagged an order from Ola Electric for supply of ignition switches and latches, is commissioning a new plant at Hosur in Tamil Nadu. Right now, Pavna Industries supplies these parts from its decades-old Aligarh plant in Uttar Pradesh.

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Current climate policies destined for ‘imminent failure’

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With the G8 set to meet in Italy this week, a report outlining a strategy to avert an otherwise imminent failure in climate policy is being published by the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science’s Mackinder Programme and the Institute for Science, Innovation & Society at the University of Oxford today.

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PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

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Since 2000, the global rate of decarbonization has averaged 0.8%; from 2010 to 2011, global carbon intensity fell by just 0.7%. The risk to business is that it faces more unpredictable and extreme weather, and disruptions to market and supply chains. a year from now to 2050. —PwC report.