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GlobalData: Global coal production set to grow to 2022, despite major players scaling down capacities

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CAGR between 2014 and 2018, respectively. These include China’s Yanzhou Coal, which has disposed of five coal projects in the last five years, and Nacco Industries, POSCO, CNX Resources who have collectively scaled back their coal assets by almost 50%. —Vinneth Bajaj.

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Mitsubishi wants to launch Australia’s cheapest electric car, but there’s a very expensive reason it might not

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But in a recent report industry super funds warned the transition risked falling behind without increased investment. Westcott, who has worked in the renewable energy sector converting a coal-fired power station to run on bio-mass in his native South Africa, confirmed he had lobbied federal government ministers on the issue.

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Optimal Energys Joule EV Completes Prototype Phase, Nearing Production

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Full-scale production of Joule will begin at the end of 2013, with cars in showrooms by mid-2014. Optimal Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with EDAG, a German automotive full service supplier, to industrialize the Joule. Earlier post.) The IDC is currently an investor in Optimal Energy.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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The South African patent office made history in July when it issued a patent that listed an artificial intelligence system as the inventor. Designed for the packaging industry, the new configuration allows containers to fit more tightly together so they can be transported better. The patent’s owner, AI pioneer Stephen L.

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Boeing, South African Airways and Mango celebrate Africa’s 1st commercial flights with sustainable aviation biofuel from tobacco

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In 2013, Boeing and SAA launched their sustainable aviation fuels collaboration and in 2014, Project Solaris became the first focus project that converted oil from the Solaris plant seed into bio-jet fuel. Sunchem holds the exclusive rights for an international industrial patent named “Solaris Seed Tobacco”. Earlier post.).

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TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

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Ozone levels across much of North America and Europe dropped significantly between 2000 and 2014. Cooper, from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, chairs the TOAR Steering Committee and has been working to develop the assessment since 2014.

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Anglo American Platinum invests in Hydrogenious Technologies; liquid organic hydrogen carrier technology for H2 storage

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South Africa-based Anglo American Platinum , the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), has invested in the first close of the Series A financing round of Hydrogenious Technologies, a company developing liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) hydrogen storage technology. Click to enlarge.

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