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Cheap solar panels from China are all over Europe – and everyone is freaking out

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Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Europe is installing more solar panels than ever before, thanks to a flood of cheap Chinese solar panels, driving installations by 40% last year. But it comes at a hefty cost: Local solar manufacturers are on the brink of a total collapse that could happen within weeks.

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BNL Researchers develop low-cost, efficient, non-noble metal electrocatalyst to produce hydrogen from water

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A team of researchers led by Dr. James Muckerman at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a new class of high-activity, low-cost, non-noble metal electrocatalyst that generates hydrogen gas from water. Click to enlarge.

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Sandia team boosts hydrogen production activity by molybdenum disulfide four-fold; low-cost catalyst for solar-driven water splitting

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These layers are not molecularly bolted together like a metal but instead are loose enough to slide over one another, and with huge internal surface areas. Molly is dirt cheap and abundant. MOS 2 exists as a stack of flat nanostructures. —Stan Chou. People want a non-platinum catalyst.

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Spirit Airlines Is on Shaky Footing After Judge Blocks JetBlue Deal

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Spirit Airlines, once a fast-growing low-cost carrier, is struggling to convince investors that it has a clear path forward after an antitrust ruling blocked the sale of the company to JetBlue Airways. She said Spirit’s cheap flights and influence on other airlines’ prices gave Americans “an equal opportunity to travel.”

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China says it will ‘rein in’ the flood of EVs coming our way

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Back in September, the EU launched an investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the EU.

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LANL researchers discover how cobalt might replace precious metals as industrial catalyst

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In work published in the international edition of the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie —and featured on the cover of the journal—the team describe the cobalt-catalyzed hydrogenation of alkenes, aldehydes, ketones, and imines under mild reaction conditions. Click to enlarge.

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Nissan and Endesa collaborating to deliver vehicle-to-grid systems to market

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Nissan and Endesa, an Enel Group subsidiary, signed an agreement at the Geneva International Motor Show pledging to work together to deliver a mass-market V2G system and an innovative business model designed to leverage this technology. Endesa will host a full demonstration of the market-ready and low cost system in Madrid on 12 March.

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