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Ballard to power Talgo fuel cell passenger train in trials ahead of planned 2023 launch

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—a leader in the design, manufacture, and maintenance of high-speed light-rail trains, headquartered in Madrid, Spain—for trials of its Talgo Vittal-One commuter and regional passenger train. Talgo plans to conduct its demonstration in early 2022 in Spain, with expected commercialization in 2023.

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H24All project seeks to build Europe’s first 100 MW alkaline electrolyzer plant

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The H24All project, led by a consortium of fifteen partners, has presented an application for European Green Deal funding to develop Europe’s first 100 megawatt (MW) alkaline electrolyzer plant, which will be connected to a Repsol industrial site.

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AIC Next Event to Explore Future of Automotive Sector

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AIC —Automotive Intelligence Center—in Bilbao, Spain is launching “AIC Next”, the objective of which is to analyze the future of the automotive sector in a different way. The automotive industry is facing one of the most dramatic periods of transformation in its history. The public/private foundation was founded in 2006.

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UBC engineers use fiber from recycled tires to develop more resilient concrete

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Relative to a plain reference mixture, 0.4% Recycled-rubber roads are not new; asphalt roads that incorporate rubber “crumbs” from shredded tires exist in the US, Germany, Spain, Brazil and China. STF and 0.3% PET fibers reduced the plastic shrinkage crack area of mortar by 97.5% and 99.4%, respectively. —Obinna Onuaguluchi.

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US$7.5M JOSPEL project to develop energy efficient climate control for EVs; leveraging Joule and Peltier effects

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Joule heating refers to the conversion of the energy of an electric current into heat as it flows through a resistance; when current flows through a solid or liquid with finite conductivity, electric energy is converted to heat through resistive losses in the material. The aim of the €6.7-million million (US$7.5-million)

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New 3-step process for conversion of kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel

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Researchers in Sweden and Spain have devised a three-step process for the conversion of precipitated kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel. Pöyry Forest Industry Oy in Finland, noted that: The magnitude of the recovery process is often not fully appreciated. Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem. Vakkilainnen, from.

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This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win

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Why isn’t Leonardo Torres Quevedo known outside Spain? And no matter how visionary he may have been, he did not foresee the multibillion-dollar computer gaming industry. Of course, for Torres Quevedo, the chess player existed as a physical manifestation of his ideas and techniques.

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