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Nuclear reactor components 3D printed by ORNL now installed at TVA Browns Ferry nuclear plant

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Four first-of-a-kind 3D-printed fuel assembly brackets, produced at the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have been installed and are now under routine operating conditions at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Unit 2 in Athens, Alabama. Credit: Framatome.

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Tesla submerges Powerwall 3 in water amidst larger advertising efforts

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In a brief advertisement video shared on YouTube earlier this month, Tesla showed a demonstration of the recently released Powerwall 3 submerged in water and still powering appliances, noting that it can continue to operate in more than two feet of water. Tesla officially launched the Powerwall 3 in the U.S. kWh and 11.5

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Audi Hungaria starts operation of Europe’s biggest solar roof installation

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Hungaria, officially started operation of Europe’s biggest photovoltaic roof installation. The focus lies on the challenges that are key to Audi: decarbonization; water utilization; resource efficiency; and biodiversity. Hungaria, has been installed on the roofs of the plant’s two logistics centers. r has used only green power.

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GM sets new goal to reduce water intensity by 35% by 2035

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General Motors plans to reduce water intensity of its operations by 35% by 2035, compared to a 2010 baseline, which could result in enough savings to fill about 4,254 Olympic-sized swimming pools. While GM’s operations are not water-intensive, water is required for some manufacturing processes.

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Wärtsilä to install Silverstream’s Air Lubrication System on trial basis to reduce Maersk container ship’s carbon footprint

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The technology group Wärtsilä, in cooperation with Silverstream Technologies , will install Silverstream’s proprietary Air Lubrication System, the Silverstream System, on a trial basis on a large container vessel owned by A.P. This carpet effectively reduces frictional resistance between the hull and the water.

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Toyota and DIFFER partner on direct solar production of hydrogen from humid air, rather than water

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The Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research ( DIFFER ) is partnering with Toyota Motor Europe (TME) to develop a device that absorbs water vapor, and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen directly using solar energy. This first prototype achieved 70% of the performance that is obtained when an equivalent device is filled with water.

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thyssenkrupp to install 200 MW green hydrogen facility for Shell in port of Rotterdam

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Under the contract, thyssenkrupp nucera—formerly thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers—will engineer, procure and fabricate a 200 MW electrolysis plant based on their large-scale 20 MW alkaline water electrolysis module. First construction work for the electrolyzers will likely begin in Spring 2022.

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