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Ford cuts global water use 8.5% per vehicle from 2011 to 2012; total usage down 62% since 2000

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Ford has reduced the average amount of water used to make each of its vehicles by 8.5% Since 2000, Ford has reduced the amount of water used around the world from 64 million cubic meters to 24 million cubic meters—a reduction of about 10.6 billion gallons, or about 62%. billion gallons, or about 62%.

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Researchers at Korea University develop high-performance textile-based electrodes for watersplitting

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An electrochemical water-splitting reaction offers an effective pathway to generate hydrogen fuels and store electricity from various intermittent but renewable energy sources. Our approach can provide a promising tool for developing high-performance electrodes for water electrolyzers and other electrochemical energy devices.

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Univ. of Texas researchers propose lithium- or sodium-water batteries as next generation of high-capacity battery technology; applicable for EVs and grid storage

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Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. In theory, the decomposition potential of water is 4.27

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Lithium-iron battery maintenance guide

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The anode and cathode store lithium, while the electrolytes carry positively charged lithium ions from the anode to the cathode, and vice versa, through the separator. LiFePO4 will provide up to 2000 complete charging cycles or as many as 6000 partial cycles!

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The Lies that Powered the Invention of Pong

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It sold 2000 units but was never a hit. It sold 2000 units but was never a hit. The ice water thawed in my veins.” We were faced with having a ball move into any of the spots in a 200-by-200 array without being able to store a move. Bushnell a year earlier as an employee of Nutting Associates. The ball in Pong is square.

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New lithium polysulfide flow battery for large-scale energy storage

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As the lithium surface is well passivated by LiNO 3 additive in ether solvent, internal shuttle effect is largely eliminated and thus excellent performance over 2000 cycles is achieved with a constant capacity of 200 mA h g ?1. 1 can be achieved. years of daily cycles, Cui said.

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Researchers find that abiotic methane can charge deepsea Arctic gas hydrates

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It is estimated that up to 15,000 gigatonnes of carbon may be stored in the form of hydrates in the ocean floor, but this estimate is not accounting for abiotic methane. This is the case at Knipovich Ridge, where sediments cap the ocean crust at water depths up to 2000 meters. So there is probably much more. —Joel Johnson.

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