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Georgia Tech team develops high-performance intermediate-temperature sold-oxide fuel cell

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Our cell could make for a straightforward, robust overall system that uses cheap stainless steel to make interconnectors. If it goes to market, though the new cell might not power automobiles for a while, it could land sooner in basements as part of a more decentralized, cleaner, cheaper electrical power grid.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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percent per year over the next four years so that in 2018 there is a ten percent reduction from the baseline. percent per year over four years for a total reduction of ten percent by 2018. Cheap debt issuance alone, even if backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. The program then reduces the cap by 2.5

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Tariffs on China aren’t the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

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But on the other hand, China is likely to implement retaliatory tariffs which will hurt US workers (for example, soybean tariffs which ruined the US soybean industry in 2018 – and resulted in more soybean demand from Brazil, which led to extensive clearcutting and fires in the Amazon ).

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