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MAN propane-fueled ME-LGIP to power Chinese VLGC

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Jiangnan Shipyard, owned by China State Shipbuilding Corp (CSSC), has ordered an LPG (liquefied propane gas)-burning MAN B&W 6G60ME-LGIP engine in connection with the building of an 86,000-m 3 VLGC (Very Large Gas Carrier) for Tianjin Southwest Maritime (TSM), the Chinese shipping company.

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BNEF: China dominates the Li-ion battery supply chain, but Europe is on the rise

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China’s dominance of the industry is to be expected given its huge investments and the policies the country has implemented over the past decade. Chinese manufacturers, like CATL, have come from nothing to being world-leading in less than 10 years. These factors may be more important than a monopoly on one specific critical metal.

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Sodium-Ion Powered EVs Roll off From Chinese EV Factories

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It is one of the oddest combinations in the car manufacturing industry as the other half of JAG is owned by the Chinese government. The fact that sodium-ion batteries use inexpensive, readily available raw materials is one of their main benefits.

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OneD, Koch Modular partner to scale up silicon-graphite EV anode materials – ET Auto

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conglomerate Koch Industries, will design and build a silane gas plant to remove impurities from silicon for the factory where OneD will combine it with graphite to make silicon anode materials. “But due to the desire… for the Western world to own the technology, our silane production system is available once more.”

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10 Graphs That Sum Up the State of AI in 2023

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Large language models don’t come cheap While the power of large language models, like ChatGPT , has increased dramatically, the price of training such models has increased dramatically as well. Industry, not academia, is drawing new AI Ph.D.’s s In 2021 (that’s the latest numbers available), 65.4 percent of all AI Ph.D.’s

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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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In addition, about 90% of the world’s supply of lithium is controlled by Chinese companies. The mining industry cannot keep up with the demand, so the alternative is to manufacture batteries based on sodium chemistry. Read the C&EN research here Lithium right now is very expensive and Sodium is quite cheap.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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I believe that the loss of industry players Solyndra, Evergreen, and SpectraWatt opens the market for more innovative solar companies to succeed with smarter tactics and mainstream products that fit into existing manufacturing models. by Steven Pleging, CEO/President of Quantum Solar Power Corp.

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