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Roskill: automotive batteries and stainless steel to drive nickel demand

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In its new ten-year market outlook to 2027, Roskill, a leading provider of international metals and minerals research, forecasts primary nickel consumption to rise by just under 4% per year between 2017 and 2027, driven by increased consumption by stainless steel producers and by growth in demand in the automotive battery sector.

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Neste-led project verified 50% methane emission reduction at palm oil mills using belt filter press

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The project took place in palm oil mills in Indonesia and Malaysia, and was conducted in collaboration with a palm oil company KLK, a Dutch sustainable trade organization IDH, and an international certification system ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification). The potential that the method offers is enormous, Neste said.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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Redwood Materials Will Recycle Hawaiian Grid Batteries

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The station had been using the batteries to store power from 53 acres of photovoltaic panels, which was then used to power homes, businesses, and streetlights on Hawaii’s Kaua’i Island. They’re not ready for recycling.” Built in 2015, the Anahola station is old enough that its batteries have reached their end of life.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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And a lot of people were asking when the book came out in 2017, “What about cyber war? I mean, when I go and I buy a ladder at the big-box hardware store, if I fall off of it because it’s faulty, there’s somebody I can sue. So it was from 1600 to 2014, about whether you’re allowed legally to go to war. What about cyber war?”

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