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Ricardo study predicts that BRIC automotive markets will be eclipsed by the “Rising-15”

Green Car Congress

These included population size and growth; size and growth of the economy; social and scientific progress indicators; quality and extent of infrastructure; and the political and legal context. These sales are equivalent to the combined total of the four largest European vehicle markets: Germany, UK, France and Italy.

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What Happens When a Happening Place Becomes Too Hot

Baua Electric

The city may have been motivated to act more forcefully after decisions by local and national courts in Italy have sided with residents who sued city administrations for not reining in nighttime chaos. And it is working with police unions to modify contracts to allow more officers to work night shifts to enforce the new rules.

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Energy Conversion Devices files Chapter 11, seeks sale of businesses; Ovonic Battery Company sold to BASF Corporation

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As part of its bankruptcy plan, ECD intends to sell through separate sales its wholly owned operating subsidiary United Solar Ovonic LLC (USO) and other assets, including its minority stake in Ovonyx, Inc. 35 OBC employees have been hired by BASF as part of this transaction. 51-year-old Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

Cars That Think

based TerraPower and London- and Italy-based Newcleo should be safer and simpler to operate than conventional reactors. Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels.

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

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ºF) above pre-industrial levels to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, and that global GHG emissions would have to peak around 2020 and then sharply decline by 50% to 85% by the year 2050. “ We are not aiming to let anyone off the hook. “ Bretton Woods plus Yalta, multiplied by Reykjavik.

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SpaceX snags launch contract from Arianespace after Vega rocket fails twice

Teslarati

Instead, over the last five or so years, Arianespace has increasingly thrown its political weight around in an effort to legally force countries in the European Union to launch on far more expensive Ariane rockets. The ISS cuts through the sky with the Italian Cosmos-SkyMed 1 faintly photobombing!

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What is COP26?

My Energi

For more than a quarter of a century the United Nations (UN) have been bringing together most of the earth’s countries for global climate summits, also known as Conference of the Parties (COPs). The Paris Agreement was the first ever legally binding commitment to mitigate global warming. When and where is it? degrees Celsius.