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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. European local solar panel manufacturers have reached a crisis in that they say they can’t compete with cheap imports and oversupply.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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However, although the state has made considerable progress decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the rate of emissions decline appears to be slowing, due in part to a spike in transportation emissions attributed to an increase from light-duty vehicles. in emissions from on-road vehicles. million MTCO 2 e of the 4.9

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Solar and Battery Companies Rattle Utility Powerhouses

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The batteries get charged when power is cheap; when there's low wind and no sun, energy prices may start to spike, and the batteries can discharge the power back into the grid, balancing the constant change of supply and demand, and trading on the difference to make a business.

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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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Today, the only remaining permitted uses for mercury are in fluorescent lighting and dental amalgams, and even those are being phased out. And it’s cheap—there’s not a lot of competition with anyone looking to buy mercury. Mercury—it’s an intercontinental pollutant,” Bender says. “So So it required a global treaty.”

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Team shows crowdsourced data from smartphones in cars can help monitor structural integrity of bridges

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In the past decade, researchers predicted that cheap ubiquitous mobile sensors would revolutionize infrastructure maintenance; yet extracting useful information in the field with sufficient precision remains challenging. The red circles represent the centers of each segment, while the light colored boxes show the segment widths.

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Mad Power thoughts

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Wind can indeed be light everywhere and the grid still needs vast extra investment to transfer wind power from northern Scotland to southern England. As for batteries,it would take billions of pounds to build ones that could keep the lights on for a few hours let alone a week. . Energy Solutions. Gas is the only answer.

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

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Magnesium is a light metal with a density of 1783 kg/m 3 —two-thirds that of aluminum and one-sixth that of steel. Magnesium has a number of applications, including as a light alloy in in the automotive industry and an alloying element in aluminum alloys. By the early 2000s production in France, Italy and Norway had ended.

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