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Roskill: surge in electrodeposited copper foil projects to meet projected EV demand

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From January to May 2021, more than a dozen new projects and expansions have been reported globally, Roskill said. There are also multiple new plants and expansion projects underway in China and Taiwan, operated by a number of domestic players aimed at serving the booming local market.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh kWh average cost of electricity in the United States and globally. The global solar market is expected to install 22 MW of electricity in 2011.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. 7 billion In 2021, global sales of thumb drives from all manufacturers surpassed $7 billion, a number that is expected to rise to more than $10 billion by 2028. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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