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GE Launches Durathon Sodium-Metal Halide Battery for UPS Market

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GE Energy Storage Technologies, a unit of GE Transportation, introduced its Durathon sodium-metal halide battery ( earlier post ) for critical backup power. Sodium-metal halide cell basic chemistry. Durathon technology uses a patented sodium halide chemistry. Click to enlarge.

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Nornickel presents market review of nickel and platinum group metals

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Despite extremely low LME nickel exchange inventories, which are currently at the 2007 level and amount to less than 5 days of global use only, the LME nickel contract was down by 30% since the beginning of the year. Nornickel remains the largest high-grade nickel producer with one of the lowest carbon footprints.

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UK Technology Strategy Board Awards More Than 12M to 22 Projects to Speed Up Development of Low-Carbon Technology for Vehicles; Includes Gas Turbine Range Extender and Li-S Battery Cells

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This investment is part of our ongoing strategy to put the UK at the forefront of low carbon vehicle technology. The work will help to accelerate the reduction of carbon emissions and deliver mass-market low carbon road vehicles within 5 to 15 years. Other projects include: TSB Low-Carbon Vehicle Technology Awards.

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CMU study concludes lithium market fluctuations unlikely to impact Li-ion battery prices significantly

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Despite substantial cost reductions in recent years (59-70% per kWh between 2007 and 2014), lithium ion batteries are still significantly more expensive than the Department of Energy target of $125/kWh by 2022. They then performed a sensitivity analysis to determine the influence of large fluctuations in the lithium carbonate price.

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LanzaTech Pulls in $18M in Series B Funding; Qiming Ventures Leads

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Since its Series A funding in 2007, LanzaTech has proven its process using unconditioned gas streams directly from a NZ Steel mill in Auckland to make fuel ethanol. ljungdahlii can be used as a unique microbial production platform based on synthesis gas and carbon dioxide/hydrogen mixtures. Sequencing the complete genome of C.

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IEA/OECD Report Concludes Nuclear Power Could Provide 24% of Global Electricity by 2050

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Total electricity production in the scenario more than doubles, from just under 20,000 TWh in 2007 to around 41,000 TWh in 2050. The roadmap finds that nuclear power is a mature, low-carbon technology that is ready to expand rapidly over the coming decades. Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR). IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka.

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Japanese carmakers still ‘most sustainable’

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The unique report, which covers the period between 1999 and 2007, was created by researchers at Queen’s University Management School in Belfast, alongside colleagues from the Euromed Management School Marseille, and the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT) in Berlin. billion from 1999 to 2007.

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