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Tesla building out first store in the Philippines

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Tesla has begun building out its first store in the Philippines, after job listings in the country were recently spotted. Tesla hasn’t launched EV sales in nearby countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, or Laos, though the automaker also has Gigafactory production facilities in Shanghai, China.

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Researchers from Caltech and UC San Diego report very high performance catalysts to convert seed oils to olefins

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In a brief note highlighting the Caltech/UCSD work, Phil Szuromi at Science noted that linear-chain olefins are essential building blocks for both commodity products, such as lubricants and thermoplastics, and fine chemicals and drugs. The ethanolysis of fatty acids derived from seed oils could provide a renewable source of LAOs.

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Study: countries seeking to cut CO2 emissions must get a handle on city-level emissions

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You can demand that the country cuts CO 2 production by 60%, but to do this successfully you need to have a good idea of how to cut pollution at a local level without devastating local economies. Everything practical that you would need to do to reduce emissions happens at a city level.

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Tesla is opening its first store in the Philippines this week

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The launch will mark the start of electric vehicle (EV) sales in the country, and potentially of its other products such as the Powerwall home battery. Tesla has started selling its EVs and energy products in a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, reaching a number of Southeast Asian markets in recent years.

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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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One, Solaren, even signed a power-purchase agreement to deliver 200 megawatts to utility customers in California by 2016 and made bold predictions that space solar plants would enter mass production in the 2020s. As Lao Tzu observed long ago in the Tao Te Ching , “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”

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