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thyssenkrupp to perform green hydrogen & ammonia technical study for Helios US$1B UAE plant

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Helios Industry is a privately-owned special project vehicle company (SPV) established in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to design, develop, finance, construct, own and operate a green hydrogen and green ammonia production facility project at Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD). —M.

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Nio garners $2.2 billion investment from UAE fund

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billion investment from a firm backed by the United Arab Emirates, as it continues to push to introduce its EVs in additional markets. Nio’s investment comes from Abu Dhabi-backed firm CYVN Holdings, after the automaker also gained a $1 billion round of financing from the company in July, according to Financial Times.

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Energy ministers agree to help speed up global deployment of carbon capture and storage

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At a meeting in the United Arab Emirates, Ministers at the Clean Energy Ministerial endorsed recommendations from the Carbon Capture, Use and Storage (CCUS) Action Group chaired by Australia and the UK. A number of actions have already been initiated in support of the CCUS Action Group’s recommendations.

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BNEF: global investment in energy transition hit $500B in 2020; $139B on EVs and infrastructure

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Highlights of the renewables investment total included a leap of 56% in financings of offshore wind projects to $50 billion, including the largest deal ever in that sub-sector—$8.3 The year also saw the largest single solar park ever funded, the 2GW Al Dhafrah in the United Arab Emirates, at a cost of $1.1

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Report for IPCC finds renewables could supply up to 77% of global energy by 2050 under most optimistic scenario; need for enabling public policies and investments

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This could contribute towards a goal of holding the increase in global temperature below 2 °C—an aim recognized in the United Nations Climate Convention’s Cancun Agreements. The summary is a short version of a roughly a thousand page comprehensive assessment compiled by for IPCC’s Working Group III.

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The Legacy of the Datapoint 2200 Microcomputer

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I was fortunate to work with mainframes during my second year as an electrical engineering student in the United Arab Emirates University at Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, in 1986. The colossal machines, with their bulky, green monitors housed in meticulously cooled rooms, epitomized the forefront of technology at the time.