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Maersk invests in Vertoro to develop green lignin marine fuels

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Vertoro is a spin-off from a public-private partnership between Brightlands Chemelot Campus, DSM, Chemelot InSciTe, University of Maastricht (UM) and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Furthermore, these investments are part of the A.P. Lignin fuels have a promising potential when it comes to decarbonizing shipping.

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Mærsk, Wallenius Wilhelmsen, BMW Group and others partner to explore blend of lignin and ethanol for sustainable shipping fuel

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and Marks & Spencer are teaming up to explore LEO—a blend of lignin and ethanol—that could be part of the future solution for sustainable shipping. Mærsk and Wallenius Wilhelmsen have teamed up with the University of Copenhagen and major customers including BMW Group, H&M Group, Levi Strauss & Co.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany. He left in 1985 to join the Rand Afrikaans University, now part of the University of Johannesburg.

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Study suggests lithium and cobalt for batteries may face supply risks by 2050

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The researchers present these results in the journal Nature Reviews Materials as part of a cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries. … However, the production of lithium will require substantial expansion, even if only parts of the presented scenario were to become reality. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier 2018.

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Global Mobility Report finds world not on track to achieving sustainable mobility

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The transport sector is not on track towards achieving sustainable mobility, according to the newly published Global Mobility Report 2017 (GMR). The GMR is the first study to assess the global performance of the transport sector and the progress made toward four main objectives: universal access, efficiency, safety, and green mobility.

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Singapore LTA selects nuTonomy for trials of autonomous mobility-on-demand transportation service; new AV testing center

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As part of their proposal, Delphi aims to trial and operationalize a fleet of five shared self-driving vehicles for first-and-last-mile travel, with the potential to scale up the technology for self-driving shuttle services to serve an entire town. The Test Circuit is expected to be operational in the second half of 2017.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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That alarmed the US, which equated Huawei's dominance with Chinese-control of global telecommunications—under a 2017 Chinese law all domestic companies are compelled to help the Chinese intelligence services on demand. Meng's arrest on fraud charges was widely seen as part of that campaign. There would be no way to track it.

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