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‘Chinese language hurricane’ looming over Europe’s EV sector, Renault chairman warns

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A “Chinese storm” is looming over Europe’s rising electrical automobile sector, Renault Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard stated, as Asia’s superpower dominates key uncooked fabrics to manufacture batteries for 0 emission automobiles. “The battle of the time will likely be a battle of metals.”

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How the AI Boom is a Windfall for Tiny Anguilla

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Located in the Caribbean, the country, home to about 15,000 people, has a unique and suddenly in-demand resource. Somebody else saw that and convinced the government to give it to them, so it went to this company in Taiwan. They had this idea, that in Chinese “ài” means love. After a couple of years, they disappeared.

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Sure, China’s Hypersonic Weapons May Have Incited a “Sputnik Moment”

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The Chinese have pushed the technology just as hard , and with far more funding. The Russians and the Chinese now have tactical missiles, ready for use, that can do quite a lot while packing nothing more powerful than high explosives. In any naval conflict in the South China Sea, Chinese missiles based on land could hold the U.S.

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Berkeley Earth study calculates that air pollution contributes to 1.6M deaths per year in China

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million deaths/year previously estimated from a Huai River study using Chinese air pollution measurements and mortality data. In an analysis of hourly air pollution data (PM 2.5 ,PM PM 10 , SO 2 , NO 2 , O 3 and CO) from more than 1500 sites in China, Berkeley Earth has calculated that the observed air pollution contributes to ~1.6

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Honda Speaks About Near Future, EV Plans

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Honda is touting increased relationships with semiconductor manufacturers, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited. Overall, the company is aiming for 10 new EVs in the Chinese market by 2027, with 100 percent electrification by 2035. In this case, Honda wants to be 100 percent EV and fuel-cell EV by 2040.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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It is not only wise we devote our resources toward solar technology; it is essential. Combined with a Chinese manufacturing boom, that lowered the overall cost of panels by 40 percent this year, Solyndra was unable to compete. Resources. [ kWh average cost of electricity in the United States and globally. 1 ] [link] , [link]. [

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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—Henn Tan, as told to the Straits Times Many of these electronics products, including the chips in them, were produced in Asia, including Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand—and Singapore—under the OEM system. It also claimed to have invented the flash memory stick. Tan fought them hard and sometimes won.

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