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Maersk parterning with 6 companies to source at least 730,000 tpy of green methanol by end of 2025

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Green Technology Bank (GTB) was established in 2016 by the Chinese government with the priority task to fulfill the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Orsted has a strategic ambition of installing 50 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2030. Proman (Switzerland). Green Technology Bank (China).

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Volkswagen confirms EA288 diesel engines designed for EU5 and EU6 not affected by defeat device software

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Volkswagen confirmed on Thursday that no software constituting an improper emissions control defeat device as defined in law is installed in vehicles with EA 288 EU5- or EU6-engines in the European Union. Remedial action on the vehicles will begin in January 2016 at no cost to customers.

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Empa recommends buying diesel vehicles only if Euro 6d-TEMP or Euro 6d

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On 1 September 2017, new emissions regulations for passenger vehicles come into force in the EU and Switzerland. At the end of 2016 around 3.1 million with diesel engines were registered in Switzerland. To this end, a mobile emission measuring device will be installed on the vehicle.

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Swiss team develops effective and low-cost solar water-splitting device; 14.2% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency

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A 12-14 m 2 system installed in Switzerland would allow the generation and storage of enough hydrogen to power a fuel cell car over 10,000 km every year. The gases can then be collected and stored in their pure form. Schüttauf et al. Click to enlarge. Christophe Ballif, co-author. Electrochem.

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Finally, Tesla Confirms The Wireless Charging & A Little More On Wireless Charging of EVs

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Designing and installing a wireless charging station is an expensive activity and when we look at wireless charging it doesn’t add much value to the overall EV experience. You have to install the charging pod in your garage and conceal it with concrete and the related infrastructure is also expensive.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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So we basically installed an eye tracking device on our subjects. So we called 20 subjects from all across Switzerland, some people also from outside Switzerland, with different levels of expertise. This has been available already since 2016, but at the very low resolution, and only last year it reached the VGA resolution.

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The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine

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Some years later, I had the good fortune of visiting the huge headquarters of the cipher machine company Crypto AG (CAG), in Steinhausen, Switzerland, and befriending a high-level cryptographer there. After hours of deft surgery, I managed to install the snubbers. I was fascinated. It mentioned a 1963 cipher machine, the HX-63.