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Did The U.S. Spend Two Decades & Trillions Of Dollars In Afghanistan & Iraq Because Of Oil Addiction?

CleanTechnica EVs

I recall 9/11 vividly, as many Americans do. I was going into a morning sociology class in college. Everyone was glued to the TV — New York City’s Twin Towers had been destroyed from terrorists flying planes into them, another was soon flown into the Pentagon. As I’ve learned since then, almost everyone was shocked […].

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

Cars That Think

While we were in Ukraine, we also demonstrated our technology for the State Special Transportation Service , a branch of the Ukrainian military responsible for keeping roads and bridges open. Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War.

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Groundbreaking in Turkmenistan for major synthetic gasoline plant; first full-scale Haldor Topsøe TIGAS facility

Green Car Congress

The plant in Turkmenistan is extremely important to us, because it is the first large scale project in the world where we can showcase how our technology can help a nation with huge natural gas reserves monetize their natural resources by diversifying beyond conventional gas markets into transportation fuels.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

Enterprising hunters in Afghanistan and Pakistan were the possible cause for a change in migration routes. This being the only reason trains are the cheapest form of land transport. Everyday we saw at least two cars, whose occupants dumped beer bottles out of the window. The most famous visitors have been the Siberian cranes.

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