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Asian Development Bank providing $300M towards replacing 100K gasoline trikes with E-Trikes in the Philippines; $300M for major road upgrades in Chhattisgarh, India

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing $300 million towards a project that will replace 100,000 gasoline-burning tricycles in the Philippines with electric tricycles, or E-Trikes. Without intervention, the Philippines is on a course to almost quadruple CO 2 emissions in less than 25 years, the ADB said.

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Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

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The global geothermal industry surpassed 12,000 MW of geothermal power operational, with about 600 MW of new geothermal power coming online globally, according to a year-end update by the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA). New project announcements have increased the resource under development to about 30,000 MW.

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SpaceX’s Starlink officially goes online in Indonesia

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pic.twitter.com/cAHRxm3jvn — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 19, 2024 During the event, some also asked if Musk or Tesla had any plans to invest in the country’s electric vehicle (EV) industry , to which he responded that he was first focused on launching Starlink. You can see the full Starlink coverage map here.

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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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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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Southeast Asia market will become a competitive place for Chinese and Japanese car companies

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Europe, the birthplace of the automobile industry, to North America across the Pacific Ocean, has always been the top stage that Chinese car companies hope to step on. The Federation of Thai Industries believes electric car sales will exceed 10,000 units this year, a fourfold increase. What is the mystery behind it?.

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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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government committed US $9 million to help build a NASA-themed science exhibit at the Seattle World’s Fair. Clair Omar Musser, an engineer working for Scientific Space Industries, a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft, took up the challenge. The fair’s iconic landmark was the Space Needle. In his 1958 U.S.

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