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Navigant forecasts global natural gas fleet of 34.9M by 2020

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Light duty vehicles (LDVs) account for almost 95% of NGVs on roads today, but trucks and buses are growing at a faster rate and are anticipated to account for 9% of the total fleet by 2020. Italy and Ukraine, the largest markets, are slowest growing (3% and 4% CAGR, respectively) due to their relative maturity.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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The market for all recyclables, from mixed plastics to cardboard and paper, collapsed in 2018, when China banned the import of recycled waste materials. SGH2 is in negotiations to launch similar projects in France, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Greece, Japan, South Korea, Poland, Turkey, Russia, China, Brazil, Malaysia and Australia.

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The Fall and Rise of Russian Electronic Warfare

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And now Ukraine, including by extension its intelligence partners in NATO, had a Krasukha-4 to dissect and analyze. After nearly a decade of owning the airwaves during a Moscow-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine, EW was. At least three of Russia’s five electronic warfare brigades are engaged in Ukraine. First Fielded.

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Green Hydrogen Cars: How They are Different?

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Hydrogen production as mentioned above is based on electrolysis, a chemical process that produces hydrogen which is a universal, light, and highly reactive fuel. According to the International Energy Agency, global demand for hydrogen as a fuel has quadrupled since 1975, reaching 70 million tonnes per year in 2018.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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Devastating accidents, like the ones at Chernobyl in Ukraine and Fukushima in Japan, can leave areas uninhabitable. The deuterated erbium (chemical symbol ErD 3 ) is placed into thumb-size vials, as shown in this set of samples from a 20 June 2018 experiment. Yet these fission plants, for all their value, have considerable downsides.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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and EU Ukraine-related economic and financial sanctions. trillion through 2018, but pressure from the Economic and Energy Ministries and Russian producers forced the Finance Ministry to consider alternatives with less negative impact on crude production.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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Our 2020 study , published in Nature Climate Change , found that manufacturing a typical EV sold in the United States in 2018 emitted about 7 to 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide, compared with about 5 to 6 tonnes for a gasoline-fueled vehicle. fleet of light vehicles. You also must consider the electricity that charges the vehicle.