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Starfire Energy closes major funding round; green ammonia and hydrogen solutions

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Unlike traditional Haber-Bosch designs the RapidRamp process can accommodate being directly powered by intermittent energy sources such as wind, solar and hydro. The modular solution is sized to connect directly with renewable energy production, providing a scalable, distributed source of zero-carbon ammonia.

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Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs

Baua Electric

When the tide rises, people climb a little ladder over the ledge of black rock, with the sea still surging below them, shivering in the wind, wrapping themselves in towels and wringing water from their hair. But he tells me that this kind of connection to the land is available to anyone. Try to make that connection.” “In

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Mercedes-Benz EQC EV soaking up summer heat of up to 50?C in trials in Spain

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This tests and validates, for example, the durability of a powertrain connection or of individual axle parts. This makes sounds such as the rolling of the tires or wind noise more prominent. It is followed by validation—either of individual components on dynamometers or in test vehicles.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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With a functioning AfCFTA, the DRC can receive other upstream mineral inputs needed for lithium-ion batteries—such as manganese from, say, South Africa and Madagascar, copper from Zambia, graphite from Mozambique and Tanzania, phosphate from Morocco, and lithium from Zimbabwe, to name but a few.

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