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BMW Group Plant Landshut light metal foundry recertified by Aluminum Stewardship Initiative (ASI)

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Since producing aluminum is highly energy-intensive, the use of green power such as solar electricity offers considerable potential for reducing CO 2 emissions. Residues are collected from all casting and mechanical processing stations according to type, so materials with different compositions are not mixed.

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The Seabed Solution

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Quite soon, we’re all going to find out whether existing technology can be used to harvest those nodules and recover their valuable metals at costs competitive with more traditional mining techniques. When it ceased operations, it hadn’t mined any metal ore at all. And the timing is hardly coincidental.

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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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We measure access to electricity no better than we do the rate of literacy. Both are easy to define—a population’s share connected to the national grid or to a local source of electricity, and the ability to read and write—but such definitions do not make it possible to get a truly informed verdict. What does 50 kWh/year deliver?

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Wanted: Electric MINI test drivers

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MINI is on the hunt for willing test drivers to drive its electric MINI cars as part of a Government-backed scheme to get electric cars on the roads. A second round of applications will then be invited in 2010, allowing a further twenty drivers to lease an all-electric MINI for a six month period. charging cable.

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