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Comment on Some battery makers in China to be forced to cut or halt production due to lack of orders, says TrendForce by DORAMAS

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Prices of lithium arent falling because there is no demand. All the mines in iran and Afghanistan going online what else would anyone expect. Because prices will be low for commodities and batteries, the ev industry will bring more buyers. Demand is surging, its the supply side that is skyrocketing.

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US Senate Armed Services Committee produces markup limiting DoD purchase of biofuels and prohibiting construction of biorefineries

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Afghanistan). Fueled by private investment, they are adding to America’s mix of domestic energy, reducing prices for consumers and freeing us of foreign influence. The bill authorizes $498.0 million more than the President’s request for the base budget of DOD and $301.0 The bill authorizes $431.0

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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

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In 2002, iRobot , a company that I cofounded, introduced the first mass-market autonomous home-cleaning robot, the Roomba, at a price that severely constricted how much AI we could endow it with. The limited AI wasn't a problem, though. Our worst failure scenarios had the Roomba missing a patch of floor and failing to pick up a dustball.

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$97.07

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As the price per barrel goes beyond $97, one story in the NY Times reports : •Bombing in Afghanistan kills 64. Tags: petroleum oil price per barrel. Attack on pipeline in Yemen. Domestic oil inventory to fall. Severe weather forecast for North Sea. Oil platforms evacuated. Dollar weak.

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Secretary of the Navy Sets Target for 50% of Total Energy Consumption from Alternative Sources by 2020; Role for Biofuels and EVs

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The Commandant of the Marine Crops, General Conway said it best during the Marine Corps energy summit a few weeks ago when he described the fully burdened cost of a gallon of gasoline delivered to a piece of equipment in Afghanistan. If you believe the cost of fuel will go higher, as almost everyone does, the savings will only increase.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Even a casual glance at the IMF’s World Economic Outlook statistics for Russia shows the tight correlation since 1992 between GDP growth on the one hand and oil and gas output, exports, and prices on the other (economic series available here ). percent of GDP in 2014. Natural gas data from Gazprom). billion respectively).

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Within a few months of the sales, however, global food prices soared by 50 percent, and U.S. As part of its War on Drugs, the CIA used Landsat imagery to reveal an increase of acreage committed to poppy in Afghanistan in 1985 and the resulting expanded opium trade. farmers estimated a profit loss of $462 million (about $3.2

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