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Belgium or Brooklyn? 5 Bold New Places to Eat in Brussels.

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A recent dinner opened with a thrilling quintet of miniature hors d’oeuvres, including finely diced North Sea squid in fermented tomato water, a mille-feuille of smoked eel and pickled celeriac, trout with horseradish and fig, a nest of fried julienned leeks with a quail’s egg, and tiny mussels with winter truffles.

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IHS Markit: annual investments in green hydrogen production to exceed $1 billion by 2023

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Operating capacity for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis technology currently stands at 82 MW with a pipeline of more than 23 GW, according to the IHS Markit Power-to-X tracker. 6 European countries, the European Commission, Russia and Chile have all released hydrogen strategies since May 2020.

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UN report highlights urgent need to tackle impact of EV battery production boom

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In Chile, lithium mining uses nearly 65% of the water in the country’s Salar de Atamaca region—one of the driest desert areas in the world—to pump out brines from drilled wells. This has forced local quinoa farmers and llama herders to migrate and abandon ancestral settlements.

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