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Using Industrial Automation to Monitor Vertical Farms

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To find out about the latest technologies being used by the agricultural industry, I virtually attended the second annual AgTech Innovation Summit , held in February in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The systems reduce water consumption and minimize the need for pesticides and herbicides.

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BMW Group sourcing aluminum produced using solar energy from EGA

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Sourcing 43,000 tonnes of solar aluminum valued in the three-digit million euros will supply nearly half the annual requirements of the light metal foundry at Plant Landshut. Without corrective measures, CO 2 emissions per vehicle in the BMW Group supply chain would increase by more than a third by 2030. In 2019, EGA sold 2.6

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Dow to invest in water desalination and reuse technologies in Saudi Arabia

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The proposed facility would deliver local supply security of advanced technologies for water desalination and water re-use for potable, non-potable and industrial water serving Saudi Arabia, the surrounding Middle East and North Africa region and emerging markets worldwide. Earlier post.).

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Gulf oil giants Saudi Aramco, Adnoc set sights on lithium – ET Auto

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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ national oil companies plan to extract lithium from brine in their oilfields, in line with efforts to diversify their economies and profit from the shift to electric vehicles (EVs), three sources told Reuters.

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Singapore Company Trialing Natural Gas Econic Waste Collection Vehicle

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This is the case in Stockholm, where experience with this technology has been gained over more than six years, and the biogas is produced from waste water and to an extent also from household waste. In Singapore the methane is supplied by GPlus, the natural gas sales division of Sembcorp.

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Etihad Airways and partners launch roadmap for sustainable aviation biofuels in UAE

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Etihad Airways, together with Boeing, Total, Takreer and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, launched a joint industry roadmap for the sustainable production of aviation biofuels in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Earlier post , earlier post.). Oxygen and other molecules are removed to make olefins.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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Global solar energy supplies are growing rapidly, with nearly 10 times as much solar capacity installed today as there was a decade ago. Or, solar thermal can directly provide heat for industrial processes to make steel, cement, and chemicals—all energy-intensive sectors that are difficult to clean up. It's flexible.