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Australia, Indonesia should team up for battery supply chains, ACEN CEO says – ET Auto

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New Delhi: Top lithium producer Australia and major nickel suppliers Indonesia and the Philippines could team up to develop regional battery storage systems, the head of Philippine energy firm ACEN said on Monday.

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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

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Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. At daybreak, the cranks pull the ring back up to the surface to soak up sunlight and carbon dioxide.

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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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Traditional orreries were mechanical models of the solar system. These often beautiful and intricate instruments were devised by skilled clockmakers to illustrate how the planets and their moons moved through the solar system. Two years later, the Philippines’ Atomic Energy Commission contributed a siderite, a nickel-iron meteorite.

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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The proposal calls for what’s known as “solar geoengineering”: cooling the planet by deflecting sunlight that would otherwise strike the planet. Little is known about how, or whether, solar geoengineering might work and how the particles would react and move in the stratosphere.

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