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EEA: increase in EU GHG emissions, mostly due to transport, hampers progress towards 2030 targets

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The slight increase prolongs a relatively stable trend in emissions observed since 2014, after a 10-year period of almost continuous reductions between 2004 and 2014. The largest absolute growth in emissions occurred in Spain. This corresponds to a 21.9% drop in emissions between 1990 and 2017.

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Exide Technologies has produced 2.5 million Start-Stop batteries in Europe since 2009

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Exide began production of these batteries in 2009 and they are now produced in two Exide plants in Italy and Spain. In 2004, Exide Technologies was the first in the market supplying an Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM) technology-based micro-hybrid battery for the Citroën C3.

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Alstom acquires a 40% equity share in AWS Ocean Energy

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Created in 2004, AWS Ocean Energy is currently focusing on the development and delivery of its AWS-III wave energy converter, a floating device with a rated power output of 2.5MW. Portugal, Spain and France are also showing a strong interest in marine energy and wave energy in particular.

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Start-stop systems hit milestone

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Its advanced lead acid batteries feature in vehicles with start-stop systems and are produced in Italy and Spain. Back in 2004, Exide Technologies [.]. The company has announced the production of its 2,500,000th micro hybrid battery in Europe.

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Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking

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Formal requirements came long afterwards—in Europe in 2004 and in the United States in 2012. At the other extreme are Bulgaria and Romania—Spain was doing poorly, but in a very few years it has come up to near the top of the list.”. Manufacturers made it standard before government agencies got around to telling them to.

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Inside the Universe Machine: The Webb Space Telescope’s Ultra-Reliable Radio

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He became the mission systems engineer in 2004. “I The DSN consists of three antenna complexes : Canberra, Australia; Madrid, Spain; and Barstow, California. Menzel says he first saw the frequency selection proposals for JWST around 2000, when he was working at Northrop Grumman. I knew where the risks were in this mission.

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Manchester team proposing graphene-based ballistic rectifier for waste heat recovery

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In 2012, a team from the US, Spain and Sweden (Matthews et al. Graphene was the world’s first two-dimensional material, isolated in 2004 at The University of Manchester; since then a whole family of other 2D materials have been discovered. Greg Auton, who performed most of the experiment.

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