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Canada Rare Earth enters into agreement to purchase a rare earth separation refinery situated in Laos

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Canada Rare Earth Corporation has entered into an agreement to purchase 60% of the issued and outstanding shares of a company based in Laos. The company’s future development plans entail extending capabilities to include rare earth metal making.

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DEKRA-certified tests: Mercedes-Benz HD trucks cut fuel consumption 22% in 20 years while meeting more stringent emissions rules; VECTO

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The August 2016 testing by commercial vehicle magazine Lastauto Omnibus (LaO) compared the latest generation of the Mercedes-Benz Actros long-distance truck compared to the basic model of 1996—a Mercedes-Benz from the SK model series and therefore one of the last representatives of the pre-Actros era. l/100 km (5.76 l/100 km (6.28

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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

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This study reveals the opposite, and this could change how officials plan and adapt to urbanization in the future. The assumption from past research has been that cities of all sizes will eventually decline in density, with greater amounts of urban expansion than population growth.

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Mitsubishi Previews Angular DST Concept, Global Production Version to Follow

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Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar, the Philippines, Cambodia, Singapore and Malaysia may be smaller countries. But they’re relatively populous and currently represent a significant portion of Mitsubishi’s overall sales. But that’s about all Mitsubishi is willing to share right now.

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Materials science as key enabler for clean energy transition

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If you don’t change direction, you will end up where you are heading,” said Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism. Renewable energy future. Where are we heading? Thee second valley is the scale-up from small pilot projects to commercial-size facilities, where economies of scale can be used to dramatically reduce costs. —Chu et al.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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The following day (which happened to coincide with the short-lived Wagner Group rebellion ), we rewrote our algorithms so that our system mapped only the locations where suspected land mines were identified—a more scalable solution for our future work. Maybe we’ll eventually have separate models for places such as Angola, Iraq, and Laos.

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