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Nikkei: China boosts domestic rare earths quota by nearly 30%

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China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Ministry of Natural Resources jointly announced that the production quota for the first half of this year will be 84,000 tons, a major jump from the 66,000 tons last year and the highest target to date for the first half. It announces a quota twice a year.

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New phase of globalization could undermine efforts to reduce CO2 emissions

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A new study finds that the growth of carbon production from Chinese exports has slowed or reversed, reflecting a “new phase of globalization” between developing countries that could undermine international efforts to reduce emissions. The paper is published in Nature Communications.

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Study: countries seeking to cut CO2 emissions must get a handle on city-level emissions

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Using China as a model, the team compared emissions data from 180 cities across the country, looking at the industrial make-up of each city, its socioeconomic profile, and the types of energy produced and consumed. Total CO 2 emissions of 182 Chinese cities. Shan et al. Yuli Shan, Dabo Guan, Klaus Hubacek, Bo Zheng, Steven J.

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GE and Shenhua open coal gasification joint venture in China

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The region’s coal industry comprises China, India, Australia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Vietnam and New Zealand. The new company combines GE’s expertise in industrial gasification technologies with Shenhua’s expertise in coal gasification and coal-fired power generation.

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Celanese sees new TCX ethanol process as key component in future growth; a paradigm shift in ethanol production

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Celanese is one of the world’s largest producers of acetyl products (intermediate chemicals, such as acetic acid, for nearly all major industries); acetyl intermediates account for about 45% of Celanese’s total sales. a Chinese synthesis gas supplier, for the production of certain feedstocks used in the TCX process. and Uhm, S.

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The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

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Because of their unique luminescent, electrochemical, and magnetocrystalline properties, rare-earth elements are essential to some of the most important and fastest-growing tech-based industries. That critical importance of rare-earths in so many tech industries is of mounting concern in many Western countries. First, how big is it?

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Bob Taylor, then at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) , got interested in connecting computers, in part to save the organization money by getting the expensive computers it funded at universities and research organizations to share their resources over a packet-switched network. 1962 and Ph.D.

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