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Fusion Fuel Green partners with CCC to develop green hydrogen demonstrator plants in Middle East

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CCC is a globally diversified company specializing in Engineering and Construction. It is this vision that has triggered a slew of recent green hydrogen investment deals in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Oman and Saudi Arabia. However, the cost is one very large fly in the ointment. Many more will follow.

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Skeleton Technologies joins Flying Whales program to develop next generation of heavy-lift, large-capacity airships

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The helium-filled, rigid-structure airship will be capable of winching to pick up and unload cargo while hovering, at a fraction of the cost of a heavy-lift helicopter, and for much heavier loads. For that purpose Morocco will become the “third parent country” of Flying Whales. Flying Whales CEO Sébastien Bougon.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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The ship’s captain stopped the engines, and the aircraft flashed its lights at the rubber boat. Frontex , which has in turn issued contracts worth hundreds of millions of euros to major engineering firms for remote border-control hardware, software, and know-how. Athanasios Kapoutsis , an engineering researcher on the team.

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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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The DRC’s cost competitiveness comes from its relatively cheap access to land and low engineering, procurement and construction, or EPC, cost compared to the US, Poland and China. This is due to the DRC’s proximity to cathode raw materials and heavy reliance on hydroelectric power plants.

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