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China's Gotion will make EV-bound LFP batteries in Illinois

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Chinese battery maker Gotion will build a $2 billion EV battery factory in Manteno, Illinois, with plans to begin production in 2024. The battery plant was announced September 8 by Gotion and the State of Illinois, which provided a $536 million incentive package to land the project.

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Study first to quantify amount of US pollution resulting from Chinese manufacturing for exports

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Average annual percentage of black carbon pollution related to Chinese exports. Given the complaints about how Chinese pollution is corrupting other countries’ air, this paper shows that there may be plenty of blame to go around. Maximum daily percentage of sulfate pollution in US related to Chinese exports. Credit: Lin et al.

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Frontier Supercomputer to Usher in Exascale Computing

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Supply issues are indeed the reason Frontier will become operational in 2022 ahead of another planned supercomputer, Aurora, which will be installed at Argonne National Laboratory, in Illinois. Why would Chinese engineers construct such a machine without telling anyone about it? But that date came and went in July.

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One Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion Could Take Out the Power Grid

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In July, Chinese researchers urged their government to increase the country's readiness for defending against a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. covering portions of Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

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the John Bardeen professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana , and the creator of the first LEDs. and joined the Illinois faculty. “Take a look around during the next few days,” advised Nick Holonyak Jr. , Every yellow light-emitting diode you see—that’s George’s work.”

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Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?

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Nanofluids suspended in water-based electrolytes were first investigated for this application in 2009 by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Illinois Institute of Technology. One report from researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences boasts of a 711 Wh/kg lithium-ion battery.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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According to a 2022 paper , there have been more than 740 judgements in Chinese courts involving voiceprints. Even something as simple as putting in an order at a McDonald’s drive-through in Illinois has raised legal questions about collecting biometric data without consent. In a 1994 ruling , U.S.