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Brine-to-battery company EnergyX secures $450M funding agreement with Global Emerging Markets

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Its LiTAS technology has been piloted in the Lithium Triangle in South America and increases lithium production from 30% in existing systems up to 94% recovery rate for that particular project. billion alternative investment firm with offices in Paris, New York, and the Bahamas.

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Ram 1500 REV locked in for Australia: Mega electric pickup truck to deliver 800km driving range

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Historically, Ram brand sales have been predominantly in North America. “If you look at the numbers of South America, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand….this Not anymore,” he said. this is where something like this can really help us. This is all about global growth.”

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Lots of Italy, on Many Collectible Plates

Baua Electric

The group, which has about 400 members in Europe and South America, is planning an exhibition of the plates at the Fondazione Sant Elia , a museum in Palermo. Others decorate hallways, the kitchen and the dining room of his home in Varese, Italy.

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Florida Governor Rick Scott rejects proposed Federal high-speed rail project

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Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore only had 3.2 Historical data shows capital cost overruns are pervasive in 9 out of 10 high speed rail projects and that 2/3 of those projects inflated ridership projections by an average of 65 percent of actual patronage. It is projected that 3.07 million people will use the train annually.

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

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The end of the war opened up Europe’s huge market, and smaller ones in South America and parts of Asia. Birth of a Corporate Culture Slowly and steadily, Watson was creating a new corporate culture of ethics, paired with competent sales, solid technology, and a growing international perspective.

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Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs

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The study was led by University of Delaware’s James Corbett, and included an international team of researchers from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York and Energy and Environmental Research Associates. pollution impacts in 2020 with and without the use of low-sulphur fuels.

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

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In his CES talk, Fields said that rapidly advancing connectivity; software and sensor technology; and big data were the enablers behind the Smart Mobility projects—eight in North America, nine in Europe and Africa, seven in Asia and one in South America. Dynamic Social Shuttle, New York and London.

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