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Elcora acquires vanadium sites in quest to further position in battery technologies

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which includes ten (10) Vanadium licenses/concessions sites in Morocco. Like other minerals and metals needed for li-ion batteries, the thriving renewable industry will accelerate demand for high quality vanadium. Elcora Advanced Materials has acquired STE ERMAZONE.A.R.L, —Troy Grant, Elcora CEO.

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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. Industrial production is expected to start in 2021.

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

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CCC and Fusion Fuel have agreed to cooperate on projects involving the production of green hydrogen for potential clients in the refining and petrochemical industries in order to reduce their carbon footprint. However, the cost is one very large fly in the ointment. (Offshore) (CCC), to develop green hydrogen plants in the Middle East.

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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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Electric vehicles represent a $7 trillion market opportunity between today and 2030, and $46 trillion between today and 2050, according to the new report, “ The Cost of Producing Battery Precursors in the DRC ”, launched at the DRC-Africa Business Forum 2021. —Kwasi Ampofo, lead author of the report and BNEF’s head of metals and mining.

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More than 50 percent of MoUs signed in Vibrant Gujarat are green | Autocar Professional

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According to industry estimates, the state’s automotive sector is now valued at USD 3 billion, with Gujarat exporting automobiles and auto components with over eight lakh vehicles exported in the fiscal year 2020-21. Tata Motors currently has signed an MoU with the Gujarat government to establish a lithium-ion cell factory.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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The cost of shifting from rescue operations to border enforcement may be harder journeys for migrants and the deaths of some. Frontex invited industry partners to demonstrate tethered surveillance balloons and now uses them in at least two locations to detect migrants who manage to get past its aerial and space-borne sensors.

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