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City of Gdynia orders 30 Solaris Trollino trolleybuses with Li-ion battery packs for off-wire driving

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The city of Gdynia in Poland has signed a contract with Solaris for the delivery of 30 trolleybuses worth more than 95 million PLN (US$28 million) in total. Moreover, the new articulated vehicles, which are only now debuting on Gdynia’s street, will carry nearly twice as many people as standard vehicles at a comparable cost of operation.

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MIT study finds real-world NOx from diesels cars in Europe greatly exceeds laboratory levels; transboundary emissions cause 70% of health impacts

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It’s a case where diesel has probably been beneficial in terms of climate impacts, but it’s come at the cost of human health. That is, some countries, such as Poland and Switzerland, produced very little NO x emissions and yet experienced a disproportionate number of premature deaths from excess emissions originating in other countries.

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Is Europe’s Nuclear Phaseout Starting to Phase Out?

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And I think a lot of them will look to official standards that have been adopted, such as the EU’s taxonomy.” After all, the cost of renewables continues to plummet. Unlike the concrete in reactor shielding, public opinion isn’t set, and indications are that rising energy costs are softening attitudes to atoms, at least in Germany.

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Teen Wins Scholarship for His Glaucoma-Detection Device

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Lynn Bowlby Eye abnormalities such as glaucoma are detected from images taken of the retinal fundus during a standard examination. Lynn Bowlby This year’s second-place recipient was Filip Piękoś, a junior from Zespół Szkół Technicznych i Ogólnokształcących in Jarosław, Poland. Diagnosis and prevention of glaucoma is not accessible.”

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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With the conclusion of the 14 th Congress in Poznań, Poland a year later and little progress made, member delegates, some of who had been showing signs of pessimism and fatigue in their statements to the press, were left with just four second-level meetings at which to resolve major outstanding differences. ” [ 16 ].

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