Cars That Think
JANUARY 8, 2024
Her team created a suite of low-cost medical devices, the NEST360 newborn tool kit, to improve neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. Richards-Kortum returned to Texas with a new mission: designing medical equipment for clinics in underserved communities that could withstand harsh climate conditions and be easily repaired.
Green Car Congress
JULY 15, 2016
Boeing, South African Airways (SAA) and low-cost carrier Mango celebrated Africa’s first passenger flights with sustainable aviation biofuel. It grows under different climate and soil conditions; is cultivated in roughly the same way as traditional tobacco; and is exceptionally suited as rotation crop with cotton.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 9, 2020
From a presentation given by Faith Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency, on hydrogen’s role in tackling energy and climate challenges. Low-cost hydrogen to break-even before 2030—earlier than other European markets. Italy could import hydrogen from North Africa, at cost 14% below domestic production.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
The links between energy and development are illustrated clearly in Africa, where, despite a wealth of resources, energy use per capita is less than one-third of the global average in 2035. Africa today is home to nearly half of the 1.3 billion people in the world without access to electricity and one-quarter of the 2.6
Cars That Think
APRIL 17, 2024
And before I start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage of some of Spectrum’s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our free newsletters. That includes a handful of countries in Africa, as well as Japan and Europe. So in Africa, it’s really exciting.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
BYD makes about 80% of Motorolas RAZR handsets, as well as batteries for iPods and iPhones and low-cost computers, including the model distributed by Nicholas Negropontes One Laptop per Child nonprofit based in Cambridge, Mass. operations are small - about 20 people work in a sales and marketing outpost in Elk Grove Village, Ill.,
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