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New MIT metal-mesh membrane could solve longstanding problems with liquid metal displacement batteries; inexpensive grid power storage

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Sadoway considers this development a breakthrough, because for the first time in five decades, this type of battery—the advantages of which include cheap, abundant raw materials, very safe operational characteristics, and an ability to go through many charge-discharge cycles without degradation—could finally become practical.

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Carlos Ghosn sues Nissan for $1 billion, over funds and recognition

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It’s now not unclouded whether or not Japan’s judicial device, which Ghosn has mentioned is “rigged” and “violates the most basic principles of humanity,” can be keen to cooperate with government in Lebanon, which doesn’t extradite its electorate.

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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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treaty named for a city in Japan whose residents suffered from mercury poisoning from a nearby chemical factory for decades. In 2018, an employee at Apollo Fusion approached the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit that investigates environmental misconduct in the United States.

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.)

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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The only exception to this geographical intra-Europe rule was Ukraine, entering the Top 10 in 2016-2018 on the power of grassroots-driven lively market of second-hand EV imports, which seems to have stalled in 2019-2020. And two months into 2021 it has already scored another 57k sales! E-buses were deployed.

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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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Japan and the 1970s as parable We have, in fact, seen this story before. The steel crisis came courtesy of Japan, a country whose manufacturing methods far outstripped America’s, and which was determined to undercut American steel. Between preparation, determination, and opportunity, Japan was able to gain a lasting lead.

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