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Electric-car charging: The basics

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Conceived in 2009 and 2010 by a group of Japanese companies, CHAdeMO was first rolled out for the U.S. 4 How to find chargers We strongly recommend that you have, on the ready, a combination of methods to find your best charging-station options. in the 2011 Nissan Leaf.

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In Argentina, a Boom in Antarctic Cruises Is Straining the ‘End of the World’

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Ushuaias population has ballooned by 45 percent since 2010, as workers have moved there seeking economic opportunity. It took us a long time to get this house built, Ms. Ramos Len said. Sometimes we didnt even have money to eat, because I was putting it toward this house. But absorbing the newcomers has been difficult.

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Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

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Researchers hope to capture this energy and use it to produce clean, zero-carbon electricity. And it’s become increasingly important as a rapidly warming climate and soaring electricity demand have made the need for stable, carbon-free power ever more acute. Many magnetic-confinement designs—including the $24.5

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Japanese start-up seeks to commercialize dual-carbon battery technology; anion intercalation

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Start-up Power Japan Plus announced plans to commercialize a dual-carbon battery technology, which it calls the Ryden dual carbon battery. Dual-carbon (also called dual-graphite) batteries were first introduced by McCullough and his colleagues at Dow Chemical in a 1989 patent, and were subsequently studied by Carlin et al.

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New photocatalytic system converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel more efficiently than natural photosynthesis

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The new system mimics a natural chloroplast to convert carbon dioxide in water into methane, very efficiently using light. Photo credit: (left) Professor Ye Ruquan’s research group / City University of Hong Kong and (right) Biophysical Journal, 99:67-75, 2010. A paper on this team’s latest work was published in Nature Catalysis.

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BNEF: Li-ion battery pack prices rise for first time since 2010 to an average of $151/kWh

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Rising raw material and battery component prices and soaring inflation have led to the first increase in lithium-ion battery pack prices since BloombergNEF (BNEF) began tracking the market in 2010. he upward cost pressure on batteries outpaced the higher adoption of lower cost chemistries like lithium iron phosphate (LFP).

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Ford displays prototype Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic hood

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At the Composites Europe event in Dusseldorf, Ford Motor Company displayed a prototype carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) hood. Carbon fiber offers a very high strength-to-weight ratio; it is up to five times as strong as steel, twice as stiff, and one-third the weight. Earlier post.)