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Global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

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The findings revealed unevenness between built-up areas expansion (BUAE), which reflects the pace of infrastructure development, and urban population growth among the cities; and a widening gap between rapid urban population growth and slow urban greening, represented by features including new parks, green spaces and green roofs.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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AQDSH 2 refers to the reduced form of AQDS. Quinones are abundant in crude oil as well as in green plants. If the market price fluctuates enough, you could put a storage device there and buy electricity to store it when the price is low and then sell it back when the price is high. Cell schematic. Huskinson et al.

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Zotye launches low-cost car in China

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It is the first domestically made car sold below 20,000 yuan in China, costing only 2,000 yuan more than the world’s cheapest car, Tata Motor’s Nano, referred to as “The People’s Car.”

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European HEFT project seeks lower-cost, more efficient and power-dense PM emotor for EVs

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The innovations are intended to result in a high-efficient and low-cost solution that will be validated on 2 motor topologies, which will be compared to two main reference automotive IPM commercial motors in Europe (VW ID.3

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Gevo awarded patent covering low-cost separation technology to remove isobutanol from fermentation broth

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The term “batch concentration” refers to the concentration for a given fermentor volume based on all of the C 3 -C 6 alcohol produced during the batch fermentation even if some of the C 3 -C 6 alcohol is removed during the fermentation.

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Innoviz shipping Automotive Perception Platform, InnovizAPP, to key OEMs globally for evaluation

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The InnovizAPP hardware provides an automotive-grade reference design based on low-cost automotive-grade components. It also executes perception algorithms in real time, detecting and classifying pixels as collision relevant or non-collision relevant.

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C-Zero raises $11.5M Series A to produce clean hydrogen from natural gas via methane pyrolysis

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Hydrogen produced via methane pyrolysis processes such as C-Zero’s is increasingly being referred to as “turquoise hydrogen,” as it combines the benefits of both “blue hydrogen,” (SMR with CO 2 sequestration) and “green hydrogen” (produced by splitting water via electrolysis) by being low-cost and low-emissions, respectively.

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