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Researchers synthesize magnetic nanoparticles that could offer alternative to rare earth magnets

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It can store information up to 790 kelvins with thermal and time-stable, long-range magnetic order, which could have a potential impact for data storage application. The team’s findings will appear in an open-access paper in Applied Physics Letters.

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Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

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Audi has opened its e-gas plant in Werlte, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. Even in a comprehensive wheel-to-well analysis that includes the construction and operation of the e-gas plant and the wind turbines, CO 2 emissions are just 20 grams per kilometer (32 g/mile).

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LichtBlick begins installing home combined heat and power plants powered by VW 2.0L EcoBlue gas engine

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The electric power generated will supplement fluctuating power from wind farms and solar facilities. The heat which is generated will be stored and will be available for local space heating and hot water supplies. This decentralized power plant will have the same capacity as two atomic power plants. —Prof.

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Audi TechDay e-mobility, Part 2: systems and components

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The German Automobile Industry Association is working together with automotive manufacturers on uniform cell standards, Audi said. In recuperation the vehicle’s energy of motion is converted to electrical energy during deceleration and stored in the drive system battery, so as to be available for subsequent acceleration.

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The Magnet That Made the Modern World

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The global market for these magnets is expected to reach $20 billion a year within a couple of years, as the automobile industry shifts towards electric vehicles and as utilities turn increasingly to wind turbines to meet growing demand. Today, some 95 percent of permanent magnets are neodymium-iron-boron. It was in 1982.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal. run the hardware store and buy a new one. Never again.

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