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Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

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While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. of global greenhouse gas emissions (or about 1.4% Note the logarithmic ordinate scale.

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Rio Tinto to invest $1 billion over 5 years to help meet new climate change targets

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The new targets for 2030 are: A further 30% reduction in Rio Tinto’s emissions intensity from 2018 levels. A further 15% reduction in Rio Tinto’s absolute emissions from 2018 levels. Currently, 76% of Rio Tinto’s electricity consumption at managed operations is from renewable energy, compared with 26% of global electricity production.

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Researchers discover new efficient lithium collection method using MOF membranes; Li from produced water

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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Monash University (Australia) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia have recently discovered a new, efficient way to extract lithium and other metals and minerals from water. —Anita Hill, CSIRO’s chief scientist.

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Mercedes-Benz running automated test drive in Shanghai; infrastructure peculiarities

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million kilometers in Europe, the US, China, Australia and South Africa, and more than 1.2 The Mercedes-Benz Research & Development Center in Beijing has therefore been an integral and crucial component of the global R&D network of Daimler AG for more than a decade. China is the largest automobile market in the world.

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Circa Group providing bio-based solvent Cyrene to UK EV battery recycling project

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Australia-based biotechnology company Circa Group, which produces its bio-based solvent Cyrene from waste cellulose, is participating in a project to develop the first UK industrial scale capability to reclaim and reuse the most valuable components of end-of-life electrical vehicle (EV) batteries.

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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 worked there for a year before joining ESD Australia , in Cloverdale, as a systems engineer.

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth. Kiani traveled in 2018 to Cairns, Australia, for the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics.

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