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GE to Open Sodium-Metal Halide Battery Plant in New York

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GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt shows a sodium-metal halide battery cell at the press conference announcing the battery plant. GE says the planned facility will produce approximately 10 million sodium-metal halide cells each year—equivalent to 900 MWh of energy storage, or enough to support 1,000 GE hybrid locomotives.

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Government working towards more liberal regime to foster sale, production of ethanol: VK Singh | Autocar Professional

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While speaking at the Fuels of Future 2.0, The government is working towards a more liberal regime to promote the production and sale of ethanol, said VK Singh, Minister of State (MoS), Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and Civil Aviation.

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Gulf oil giants Saudi Aramco, Adnoc set sights on lithium – ET Auto

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Leading carmakers, however, are among those looking for new lithium supplies in anticipation of future demand. “They have done good work, they have done good extractions of sodium, magnesium, and traces of lithium. The technologies are in the early stage, but there is good work and good investment,” Al-Mudaifer added.

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ORNL Gene Discovery Can Lead to More Cost-Competitive Cellulosic Ethanol; Process Demonstrates Approach for Accelerated Industrial Strain Development

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mobilis to date and will likely serve as useful reference data for future systems biology studies. mobilis nhaA overexpression confers the AcR tolerance phenotype and that most of the advantage conferred is against the sodium ion, our data reinforce the idea that one obtains what one selects for during adaptive evolution experiments.

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

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However, the use of silicon is limited by its tendency to expand significantly during charge and discharge, so graphite is expected to remain the main anode material for the foreseeable future. So all the workable batteries that are out there now use graphite on the anode side, and they will for—as we see it—the foreseeable future.

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