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New analysis suggests Uber adding significantly to pollution and traffic in European cities

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Uber is adding more polluting car trips to already-clogged European cities such as London and Paris, new analysis by European NGOs suggests —contributing to air pollution and climate change and exploding the company’s sustainability claims. Source: “Europe’s giant ‘taxi’ company: is Uber part of the problem or the solution?”.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

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Q&A with Aqua Metals execs Steve Cotton and David Regan Regardless of the claims made in Facebook memes, Li-ion batteries are eminently recyclable, and current recycling methods cause far less environmental damage than the well-documented depredations of the petroleum industry. The more collection we do, the better for the environment.

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US study of miners links heavy exposure to diesel exhaust to increased risk of lung cancer death; researchers suggest implications for urban areas with high exhaust concentrations

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The study was carried out by researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both parts of HHS. and other risk factors for lung cancer. Reduction in the.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem – Charged EVs

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Q&A with Aqua Metals execs Steve Cotton and David Regan Regardless of the claims made in Facebook memes, Li-ion batteries are eminently recyclable, and current recycling methods cause far less environmental damage than the well-documented depredations of the petroleum industry. The more collection we do, the better for the environment.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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V-2 rockets it used to rain destruction on London. Four hundred experts sifted through billions of pages of documents and shipped 3.5 Mag amps thus found many applications in demanding environments, especially military, space, and industrial control. What did the Third Reich’s engineers know that had eluded the Americans?

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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It is for this work on packet communication technologies—as part of the project that became the ARPANET and in the foundations of the Internet—that Kahn is being awarded the 2024 IEEE Medal of Honor. He recalls traveling through Europe with Kahn, trying to convince organizations to become part of the network. “We

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