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Lanzatech, Baosteel and CAS begin construction of steel mill off-gases to ethanol plant

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LanzaTech; Baosteel Group Corporation,China’s largest steel and iron conglomerate; and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have begun the construction of a plant that will use LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology for the production of fuel ethanol from steel mill off-gases. Earlier post.)

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CHAdeMO, China Electricity Council to co-develop next-gen ultra-fast EV charging standard; backward compatibility with CHAdeMO, GB/T

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The CHAdeMO protocol, a Direct Current fast charging standard recognized by the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) ( earlier post ) and the most popular international standard with more than 18,500 charging points covering the EV market worldwide, set its specification at 500V and 125A when it was initially defined in 2009.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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In October 1972, the ARPANET was publicly unveiled at the first meeting of the International Conference on Computer Communications , in Washington, D.C. “I The demos, he recalled, ran 24 hours a day for nearly a week. In 2014, CNRI handed off that responsibility to a newly formed international body, the DONA Foundation in Geneva.

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SpaceX a bastion of independent US, European spaceflight amid Russian threats

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Aside from pursuing Chinese launch services, which is likely a diplomatic non-starter, the only alternative to rebooking former European Soyuz payloads on SpaceX rockets is to accept one or even several years of expensive delays. On the other half of the coin is the International Space Station. billion (and up to $3.5

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