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

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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. While speaking at the Fuels of Future 2.0, Additional capacity of 300 crore litres needs to be added,” he mentioned.

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

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But Saudi Arabia and the UAE can draw on expertise in handling oil brine and wastewater at oil production sites. “They have done good work, they have done good extractions of sodium, magnesium, and traces of lithium. DLE technology is in its infancy and its economics are far less certain than those of oil.

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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 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. The expression profiles generated in these studies are the most comprehensive for Z.

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Hyperion Unveils Design of its Small Modular Nuclear Reactor, the Hyperion Power Module

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At the recent Annual Winter Conference of the American Nuclear Society in Washington, and simultaneously at the “Powering Toward 2020” conference in London, England, Hyperion Power Generation Inc. Company Product Power rating. Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor. Advanced SMR (<350 MWe) Vendor Designs & Concepts.

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CATL unveils Condensed Battery for electric aircrafts and EVs

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CATL is collaborating on the development of Condensed Battery for civilian electric aircrafts, and the battery for EVs will have mass production capability this year. The Condensed Battery will also be available for use in electric vehicles and will have mass production capability within this year, Wu said.

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

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That spherical graphite is a less expensive product than its cousin, where we take the spherical graphite and put it through a secondary process called coating—applying that microscopic layer of asphalt to it. It’s a petroleum product. Sodium batteries, for example, may have great cold-weather performance. Will it match demand?

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