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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. Out of Finland’s energy-related emissions, 82 percent come from heating domestic buildings (Ref.

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Chinese steel group Tsingshan investing $375M to build lithium plant in Argentina with Eramet

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China’s Tsingshan , the world’s largest producer of stainless steel, will invest $375 million to build a lithium plant in Argentina with French multinational mining and metallurgy company Eramet. Fresh water is then used to release the stored lithium.

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ZF joins Open Manufacturing Platform

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The OMP aims to provide community members with a reference architecture with open-source components based on open industrial standards. The approach is designed to standardize industrial data models to accelerate analytics and machine learning scenarios by unlocking the access to data that used to be stored in proprietary systems.

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Wärtsilä and partners to cooperate in wind-to-hydrogen-to-electricity project; other power-to-X fuels

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The project will be based in Vaasa and will focus on enabling a new way to store renewable energy. The goal of the four parties is jointly to build a Power-to-X-to-Power system in Vaasa. The system will use renewable energy to produce hydrogen to be stored and reprocessed.

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Yu Yuan on Building A Persistent Virtual World

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Persistent computing refers to the combination of all the technologies needed to support the development and operation of a persistent virtual world. For example, they can permanently change the virtual world by destroying a wall or building a new house. My answer is: persistence, or the ability to leave traces in a virtual world.

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CARB approves new requirements to further reduce air pollution from Transport Refrigeration Units

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They also build on progress achieved by the existing rule, which requires TRUs operating in California to meet in-use particulate matter performance standards after they turn seven years old. The new requirements will help meet the current health-based ambient air quality standards across California, and further the state’s climate goals.

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What Is White-label EV Charging? Building Your Branded EV Charging Station

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White Label EV Charging refers to the practice of using another company's established electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and branding it as your own. Since you don't have to build and manage apps from scratch, the time taken to launch your charging network is drastically reduced. What is White Label EV Charging?