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Chemical Process Produces Critical Battery Metals With No Waste

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At some mining sites, olivine is a waste product, stored in piles on the surface. Christchurch-based Aspiring Materials has developed a patented chemical process that produces multiple valuable minerals from olivine, leaving no harmful waste behind. They’re extracting value from every component they produce, and with low to no waste.

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Before the Undo Command, There Was the Electric Eraser

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In the days before computer-aided drawing and the ease of the delete and undo commands, manually erasing a document could be a delicate operation. Using bread was also messy, and as the writer and artist John Ruskin allegedly said, a waste of perfectly good bread. An electric eraser could also be a timesaver. Sloane and John M.

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"The Doctor Will See Your Electronic Health Record Now"

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Administrative waste and unnecessary expenditures were substantial cost drivers, from billing to resolving insurance claims to managing patients cases. physiciansto record documentation during office visits, but this only highlights the unacceptable usability problem. Half of U.S.

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Here Comes the World Wide Web of Everything

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When it was invented in 1991, the World Wide Web connected an Internet that was overrun with many thousands of individual, fragmented digital documents. A shared HSML document describes the state and relationships of things in a given neighborhood or at a given intersection. HTML, hypertext markup language, represented a daring leap.

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How to Get the Most Money from Your Junk or Used Car

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By choosing responsible buyers who recycle materials sustainably, you’ll not only maximize your earnings but also contribute to reducing environmental waste. Documentation Having the title, registration and maintenance records ready can streamline the process. What’s their process for handling documentation?

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Velocys, Waste Management, NRG Energy and Ventech form JV for small-scale gas-to-liquids plants

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Velocys plc, a developer of smaller-scale microchannel gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology, has entered a joint venture (JV) with Waste Management, NRG Energy (NRG), and Ventech Engineers International (Ventech) to develop gas-to-liquids (GTL) plants in the United States and other select geographies. Biomethane Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) Natural Gas'

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New Mærsk Triple-E ships worlds largest and most efficient; waste heat recovery and ultra long stroke engines contribute to up to 50% reduction in CO2/container moved

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An advanced waste heat recovery system captures and reuses energy from the engines’ exhaust gas for extra propulsion with less fuel consumption. All the materials used to build the Triple-E class will be documented and mapped in the vessel’s ‘cradle-to-cradle passport’. Waste heat recovery.

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