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Opinion: The End Of An Era: Is The US Petrodollar Under Threat?

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The reasons for the cozier relationship between the two giant powers are, of course, rooted in the Ukraine crisis and subsequent Western sanctions against Russia, combined with China’s need to secure long-term energy supplies. It is no secret that Beijing has been looking to promote the yuan as an alternative reserve currency. Source: [link].

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Documenting the EV battery material supply chain: Traceability challenges, Part One

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The term refers to a process for documenting the source of a product, along with all the links in the supply chain, and it has long been important in various industries. Charged : What does your independent traceability solution provide that companies can’t do internally? Q&A with OPTEL’s Ken Fallu.

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Covert Actions Heighten Ukraine’s Nuclear Peril

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analyzed video and photos from the attack and showed, among other too-close calls, that ordnance landed some 75 meters away from a reactor building. It’s an unstable situation that—like Russia’s military actions—increases the risk of accidents that could spread radiation across Europe and threatens Ukraine’s ability to defend itself.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

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And the recent revelation of atrocities committed by the Russian military in Ukraine have renewed calls to boycott Russian gas, an action European countries are struggling to figure out how to implement. Powered by electricity, they can “pump” heat from the environment at a colder temperature into a building at a warmer temperature.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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The life cycle to which we refer has two parts: The vehicle cycle begins with mining the raw materials, refining them, turning them into components, and assembling them. Although EV battery costs have fallen dramatically over the past decade, the International Energy Agency is projecting a. The International Energy Agency.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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Most of this was driven by Europe, where strict cash penalties levied directly on automakers, for each ICE (internal-combustion engine) sold, came into effect January 2020 — and simply worked! For reference, in Europe, whose overall bus fleet size seems 2-3x smaller than China’s, somewhere around 2-2.5k in 2019 to 4% in 2020.

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