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Canada Rare Earth enters into agreement to purchase a rare earth separation refinery situated in Laos

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Canada Rare Earth Corporation has entered into an agreement to purchase 60% of the issued and outstanding shares of a company based in Laos. The company’s future development plans entail extending capabilities to include rare earth metal making.

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Novel high capacity anode material for Li-ion batteries: hydroxylamine hydrochloride

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1 —much higher than commercial graphite. Lianyi Shao, Jie Shu, Mengmeng Lao, Xiaoting Lin, Kaiqiang Wu, Miao Shui, Peng Li, Nengbing Long, Yuanlong Ren (2014) “Hydroxylamine hydrochloride: A novel anode material for high capacity lithium-ion batteries,” Journal of Power Sources , Volume 272, Pages 39-44 doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.08.065.

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Yunnan Investment Group and BYD to open new energy vehicle plants in Southwest China

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Yunnan Province, located in far southwest China, has a population of about 50 million, concentrated in about eight large cities, and borders with Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. Currently, the province’s main manufacturing industries are iron and steel production, copper-smelting and commercial vehicle production.

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DEKRA-certified tests: Mercedes-Benz HD trucks cut fuel consumption 22% in 20 years while meeting more stringent emissions rules; VECTO

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The August 2016 testing by commercial vehicle magazine Lastauto Omnibus (LaO) compared the latest generation of the Mercedes-Benz Actros long-distance truck compared to the basic model of 1996—a Mercedes-Benz from the SK model series and therefore one of the last representatives of the pre-Actros era. l/100 km (5.76 mpg US); and.

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Materials science as key enabler for clean energy transition

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If you don’t change direction, you will end up where you are heading,” said Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism. Thee second valley is the scale-up from small pilot projects to commercial-size facilities, where economies of scale can be used to dramatically reduce costs. Where are we heading? —Chu et al. Renewable energy future.

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

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Not so fast: The real-world efficiency of commercial, space-qualified solar cells has progressed much more slowly than records set in highly controlled research experiments, which often use exotic materials or complex designs that cannot currently be mass-produced. A 1974 study that NASA commissioned from the consultancy Arthur D.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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Any authorized person can log on to the website and upload their imagery from a commercial off-the-shelf drone; our system will then run the visual data through our AI model and return a map with all the coordinates of the detected explosive ordnance. Maybe we’ll eventually have separate models for places such as Angola, Iraq, and Laos.

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