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Hyundai Motor Group presents HMG Smart City master model at 2022 World Cities Summit; air and ground mobility

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Hyundai Motor Group presented the HMG Smart City master model at the 2022 World Cities Summit in Singapore. Our air and ground mobility solutions will redefine urban boundaries, connect people in meaningful ways, and revitalize cities. The city will be connected through road infrastructure in the underground layer.

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Petrobras starts production from South America’s first tension leg wellhead platform

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Moored in waters 1,200 m (3,937 feet) deep, the P-61 completes the production system for the Papa Terra field, operating alongside the P-63 FPSO (floating production storage and offloading), commissioned on 11 November 2013. Thirteen production wells will be connected to the P-61, and the well currently in operation is the PPT-16.

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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

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To the east, they typically run through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, or through the waters of the Arabian Sea before they stretch out to India and beyond. It’s hard to say that African internet users won’t benefit from all this internet connectivity. The gaps aren’t completely empty.

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Extinguishing the EV Battery Fire Hype

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The blaze had allegedly been kicked off by an electric scooter that was connected to a charger on the premises, according to reporting by the investigative tech news site Rest of World. Firefighters have consistently reported being unable to extinguish lithium-ion battery fires regardless of how much water they apply to a conflagration.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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A Sea-Monster-Proof Internet The initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. Prize Fight for Rain-Forest Tech In the Spring of 2023, Singapore will welcome 15 teams to the jungle for the semifinals of the XPrize Rainforest competition.

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BG Group sanctions US$15B coal seam gas to LNG project; first such

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First LNG exports are planned to commence from 2014, underpinned by agreements in Chile, China, Japan and Singapore for the purchase of up to 9.5 The gas is trapped in coal seams (typically 300-600 meters underground) by water pressure. The water is pumped out, and the natural gas is released from the coal. mtpa of LNG.

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New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

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This would increase the annual carbon emission to somewhere between 380 and 920 Mt CO 2 e by 2020 depending on water management practices and the extent of plantations. —Miettinen et al. There is a variance based on production method, etc.). The effect isn’t only a problem for biodiesel from palm oil.

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