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Roskill: Green magnesium moving to commercial reality; China’s dominance under threat?

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There would probably not be any production in Israel if the Dead Sea were not already being exploited for other commodities. Based on silicothermic reduction of magnesium oxide, the Pidgeon process is cheap but has a high energy demand: 366 MJ/kg Mg , compared to other common metals.

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Fuji Pigment unveils rechargeable Aluminum-air battery; targeting initial commercialization this spring

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The company said it is constantly improving the battery performance and plans to commercialize the technology in the market by spring 2015. In addition, aluminum is the most recycled metal in the world and is economically cheap. Earlier post.). Aluminum-air batteries the systems offer a theoretical specific energy of 8.1

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Joint ASU, Tel Aviv Univ. project to improve algal hydrogen production to industrial scale

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The NSF grant is part of US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) funding work. The US partner submits a grant on the joint project to the NSF, and the Israeli partner submits the same grant to the ISF (Israel Science Foundation). BSF projects bring a US scientist and Israeli scientist together to form a joint project.

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Smart Grids, Electric Vehicles: A Financial Win-Win for All -- Seeking Alpha

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Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles [EV], plug-in hybrids [PHEV] and fuel cell vehicles [FCV] at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. Driving range will no longer be an obstacle, because customers will be able to plug their cars into charging units in any of the 500,000 charging spots in Israel. Remember its PURE D.C.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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If you want to drown in EV numbers and analyses from around the globe, do subscribe to Jose’s new commercial endeavor EV Volumes (and no, I’m not getting a cut). Including complete tables for Israel in 2019-2020 which I calculated and handed over to Jose! Israel is nowhere near the Top 10, but I just wanted to brag).

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