Johannes Eckert
@futureasapresent.org
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Climate tech/science, some photography, music and this & that Web:
https://futureasapresent.org/
"For decades, the most common developers have been bisphenol A (BPA) and, more recently, bisphenol S (BPS). Both can affect living organisms by disrupting hormone signaling, and both are detected in the environment and in people who handle receipts frequently."
actu.epfl.ch/news/safer-r...
about 13 hours ago
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"The end customer plans to use SYPOX's technology to produce around 150 tons of synthesis gas per day from 2026 onwards – using renewable electricity and with up to 40 percent lower emissions."
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
about 15 hours ago
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Jeremy Wallace
2 days ago
"The price surge means silver now makes up about 26 per cent of the cost of making a solar module, compared with just 3 per cent three years ago, according to Jenny Chase, lead solar analyst at BloombergNEF."
@solarchase.bsky.social
Just what these players need.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Silver squeeze leaves solar panel makers feeling the heat
Photovoltaic industry seeks substitutions for metal that has hit record highs
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/e2a6570c-64dd-472f-b914-696957f32aec
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Prof Friederike Otto
1 day ago
Quadruple whammy: High exposure, vulnerability, La Niña and human-induced climate change turned very heavy rainfall into a disastrous deluge around the Limpopo, Umbeluzi, Maputo, Incomati, Save and Buzi rivers. - new
@wwattribution.bsky.social
study
www.worldweatherattribution.org/la-nina-clim...
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"US startup Unigrid has begun commercial-scale international shipments of its proprietary NCO sodium-ion cells, which the company says makes it the first battery firm outside China to export sodium-ion technology at scale."
www.ess-news.com/2026/01/16/s...
2 days ago
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"The leading American composer has withdrawn his 15th symphony from the Trump-controlled arts centre."
slippedisc.com/2026/01/phil...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2vR...
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Philip Glass - Glassworks - 01. Opening
YouTube video by Jay Ess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2vRbNehGB0&list=PL77E9683A81CC0BAC
2 days ago
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"To minimize the energy use in Sacramento’s extremely hot weather, Van der Ryn relied on passive solar principles. The four-story building ... provides significant thermal mass, absorbing heat during the day and releasing it at night."
metropolismag.com/projects/gre...
3 days ago
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"Due to its broad availability and naturally occurring CO2 removal capacities, quicklime presents a scalable solution that can boost the deployment of a range of CDR technologies, particularly ocean liming and certain types of direct air capture (DAC)."
carbonherald.com/frontier-buy...
3 days ago
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Maybe it is a good time to re-listen to the speech of the former republican governor of California after the Capitol riot in 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAWv...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger calls Trump 'worst president' ever, 'failed leader' after Capitol riot | ABC7
YouTube video by ABC7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAWvl-g_6rg
5 days ago
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Akshat Rathi
7 days ago
Between 2007 and 2024, power-sector projects accounted for 45% of China’s investments in Latin America’s largest economy, totaling $35 billion. So now that Brazil needs batteries for the grid, guess who is set to benefit? 🎁🔗
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Brazil Is Set for a Battery Boom. China Is Poised to Benefit
Multiple Chinese companies, including Huawei, are expected to bid in an upcoming Brazilian energy-storage auction.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/brazil-is-set-for-a-battery-boom-china-is-poised-to-benefit?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2OTE2ODY0NSwiZXhwIjoxNzY5NzczNDQ1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOUJBR1dLSVAzSk4wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQzg4NkY0NTI0NzY0RUE0OEY2QTk4RTk1NDc5RTI2NSJ9.Plw5iiF12BCqniITnOTq0Poe3W_OblicdIjxmlhCIG0
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Tina Casey
8 days ago
Jet fuel made from light, not heat.
cleantechnica.com/2026/01/21/a...
#saf
#aviation
#travel
#aircraft
#fuel
#sustainableaviationfuel
#energy
#biofuel
#biogas
#wastegas
#innovation
#startups
#airlines
#flight
#flying
#carbonneutral
#aviationfuel
#energytransition
#sustainable
#sustainability
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A US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Startup Takes Aim At Fossil Fuels
The US startup Syzygy Plasmonics is on track to scale up sustainable aviation fuel produced from waste gas in a reactor powered by light.
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/01/21/a-us-sustainable-aviation-fuel-startup-takes-aim-at-fossil-fuels/
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PIK_climate
9 days ago
Non-permanent carbon removals
#CDR
, like afforestation, cannot compensate for emissions as permanent ones can. This should be reflected in
#CarbonPricing
. PIK study in Environmental and Resource Economics provides guidance, calculates the price difference. 👇
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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"The compound will now be tested in pilot plants at a near-industrial scale, rather than in grams. A solid version of the liquid compound must be made for this purpose."
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/inno...
9 days ago
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"The Sardinia facility took less than two years to construct and the expandable dome took less than half a day to inflate, according to the article."
www.utilitydive.com/news/google-...
10 days ago
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"The dynamic approach is important as it optimizes operations and ensures less need for costly storage solutions of green hydrogen or renewable power."
www.topsoe.com/press-releas...
10 days ago
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"Based off of Claude Debussy's 'Reverie', originally arranged by Larry Clinton, and then later arranged by Liston, this performance is from a 1960 Switzerland performance of Quincy Jones's Big Band, and features Liston as well as her arrangement"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKI...
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Melba Liston's Masterful Ballad Playing on My Reverie
YouTube video by Chris Glassman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKIfBTljw8
11 days ago
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Jasmin Smajic
17 days ago
📮 Everyone talks about lithium. Yet graphite, without which lithium-ion batteries simply wouldn’t work, is quietly becoming a major bottleneck. In my latest article, I expose why graphite represents a critical risk for the energy transition and what it all means.👇🏻
#battchat
#batteries
#greensky💡🧪
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The quite crisis of graphite
Why graphite is the bottleneck in the battery trade war
https://www.lithiumhorizons.com/p/the-quiet-crisis-of-graphite
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"Most importantly, the SAF that our e-kerosene pathway produces can compete on price with jet fuel made from oil, making Fischer-Tropsch obsolete."
prometheusfuels.com/news/prometh...
(I want you to comment on this
@jmelville.science
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@natrevcleantech.nature.com
@christianonre.bsky.social
14 days ago
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Ed Conway
15 days ago
🚨Our film is up We spent months making this👇 About how Britain shut down many of the factories we need to feed us and defend us. Will have more to say on it in due course but in the meantime - pls watch, share and let me know what you think
youtu.be/PQ3hT8tqZgo?...
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The UK is losing the industry that makes everything
YouTube video by Sky News
https://youtu.be/PQ3hT8tqZgo?si=iEaTM_koniHaSCUL
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"Varaha, an Indian startup developing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects with smallholder farmers in Asia, has signed an offtake deal with Microsoft for biochar carbon removal in India spanning 100,000+ tons over three years."
agfundernews.com/varaha-signs...
15 days ago
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Ed Conway
about 2 months ago
📽️ Been working on this film, on & off, for the best part of a year. It's about the REALITY (not just the theory) of tariffs. It's the tip of the iceberg of the biggest econ story of our day. It'll air on Sky News on Fri 9pm but you can watch the whole thing here NOW👇
youtu.be/woT0FX5Ztas?...
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Sky’s Ed Conway on the frontline of Trump's trade war
YouTube video by Sky News
https://youtu.be/woT0FX5Ztas?si=ABY4h7Sjlzv_kN0E
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" 'Even if Fleetzero goes away tomorrow, in 20 years every ship being built will have batteries,' Henderson said. 'It’s just economics and physics.' "
trk.wsj.com/view/69430fa...
15 days ago
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David Roberts
16 days ago
Today on Volts: Swedish tech entrepreneur Jonas Birgersson was once known in his country as "broadband Jesus" for his efforts in spreading decentralized, low-cost broadband access. Now, he wants to bring the same decentralized, peer-to-peer revolution to the electricity grid.
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Making the electricity grid work like the internet
Jonas Birgersson joins me to explain how "packet-switching" for electrons can lead to energy abundance and grid resilience.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/making-the-electricity-grid-work
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ETH Zurich
17 days ago
A study by ETH Zurich and PSI finds that
#ElectricVehicles
could be economically viable in
#Africa
before 2040 with solar-powered charging infrastructure.
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Electric vehicles could catch on in Africa sooner than expected
A new study led by researchers at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in collaboration with African partners shows that electric vehicles could be economically competitive in many African c...
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/01/electric-vehicles-could-catch-on-in-africa-sooner-than-expected.html
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"But making these powerful magnets generates radioactive byproducts that can contaminate water and soil. As the west introduced environmental regulations in the 1980s, US rare earth suppliers 'started exporting their product to China ...' "
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Freedom from China? The mine at the centre of Europe’s push for rare earth metals
Swedish producer is trying to to accelerate the process of extracting the elements vital for hi-tech products
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/10/china-mine-europe-rare-earth-metals-swedish-producer
20 days ago
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Les Égarés (Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani) - Izao
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLo...
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Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani - Izao
YouTube video by NØ FØRMAT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLoZG15SeM&list=PL9a8XlQ9rvHuUE4KMis3ZBO16YsGrJ7qY&index=3
20 days ago
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David Roberts
21 days ago
Today on Volts: "closed-loop" geothermal energy digs deeper than conventional geothermal & does not require natural hotspots, so it can be done anywhere. I talk with Eavor, a cutting-edge Canadian startup that has just opened its first closed-loop facility in Germany, about the possibilities.
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What's the deal with closed-loop geothermal?
I talk to Eavor’s Jeanine Vany and Mark Fitzgerald about the engineering breakthroughs that could finally make geothermal geography-agnostic.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-closed-loop-geothermal
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Christian Breyer
21 days ago
Sodium-ion battery cells already near lithium-ion cost parity, set to get cheaper -
www.ess-news.com/2026/01/09/s...
@dominikkeiner.bsky.social
@aukehoekstra.bsky.social
@jeroahola.bsky.social
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Sodium-ion battery cells already near lithium-ion cost parity, set to get cheaper - Energy Storage
By 2050, sodium-ion batteries with fast learning rates could deliver storage at 11–14 €/MWh - cheaper than lithium-ion at 16–22 €/MWh - while also offering higher energy-to-power ratios and high cycle...
https://www.ess-news.com/2026/01/09/sodium-ion-battery-cells-already-near-lithium-ion-cost-parity-set-to-get-cheaper/
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"After three decades of perfecting how to reclaim and reuse building components, the Swiss Architect and her team are changing the rules of construction in Basel and its surroundings"
metropolismag.com/profiles/how...
21 days ago
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Balkony, Frankfurt, 26th of December
22 days ago
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"For example, it is estimated that the new measures ... would enable the recycling and reuse of hundreds of tons of rare earth materials, as well as around 5-6 million tonnes of steel, 1-2 million tonnes of aluminium, and 0.2-0.3 million tonnes of copper."
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
24 days ago
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Clare Fieseler, PhD
27 days ago
All signs point to Trump’s second term creating a hotter and less affordable future for Americans. Without new offshore turbines going up, millions of households across the Northeast will soon pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity. My latest 👇
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How Trump dismantled a promising energy industry — and what America…
The demolition of the offshore wind sector in 2025 will reverberate for decades, resulting in lost jobs, higher utility bills, and less reliable power…
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/how-trump-dismantled-a-promising-energy-industry-and-what-america-lost
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"For us, we look for markets where renewable power, green power, is cheap and the U.S., at least for the time being, it certainly isn't one of those. Renewable power in the U.S. has become – well, all power in the U.S. – has become a scarce commodity."
www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
25 days ago
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
26 days ago
Two magnesium start-ups—Magrathea Metals and Tidal Metals—are making plans to start production of the metal in the US. The US Departments of Defense, Interior, and Energy all list magnesium as critical because its alloys are lightweight and strong.
cen.acs.org/materials/St...
#chemsky
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Start-ups advance US magnesium plans
Projects based on new chemistry could offset the loss of domestic supply from a troubled Utah plant
https://cen.acs.org/materials/Start-ups-advance-US-magnesium/103/web/2025/12?sc=260104_sc_eng_bs_cen
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"CATL said this potentially is the start of a ‘dual-star’ approach, creating a new trend of 'sodium and lithium batteries shining brightly together.'"
www.ess-news.com/2025/12/29/c...
27 days ago
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If you are looking for a classic movie this weekend, consider satire "Wag the Dog". Because of a sexual misconduct the president calls a spin doctor (R. De Niro) who distracts the public by a virtual war with Albania, created by a Hollywood Producer (D. Hoffman)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=steA...
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Wag the Dog - Original Theatrical Trailer
YouTube video by Warner Bros. Rewind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=steA_PZPkc8
27 days ago
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"Andrew Wilson, deputy secretary-general of the International Chamber of Commerce, said introduction of the CBAM could be 'quite disruptive'."
www.ft.com/content/9e4a...
about 1 month ago
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IEEE Spectrum
about 1 month ago
#Blackouts
will continue to happen, especially given the continued changes in electric grids, writes Qing-Chang Zhong. But Virtual Synchronous Machines might be the key to keeping the lights on as we transition to a renewable future.
spectrum.ieee.org/virtual-sync...
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"Frontier buyers were NULIFE's first customers as part of a prepurchase in 2024 for which the company has already delivered more than half of the total volume contracted"
frontierclimate.com/writing/nulife
about 1 month ago
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2 months ago
I can't get enough of this excellent, brief paper by Oliver Geden & Andy Reisinger. If you care about climate, incl. human & environmental impacts, then you must also care about serious commitments to removals. Take 6 minutes & read this masterpiece.
www.swp-berlin.org/en/publicati...
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Overshoot: Returning to 1.5°C Requires Net-negative Emissions Targets
Global warming is set to rise above 1.5°C by the early 2030s. Returning to 1.5°C before the end of the 21st century would not prevent all harms...
https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/overshoot-returning-to-15c-requires-net-negative-emissions-targets
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SYNTHONY - Guru Josh Project 'Infinity' (Live from Auckland)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FsB...
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SYNTHONY - Guru Josh Project 'Infinity' (Live from Auckland)
YouTube video by SYNTHONY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FsBCtri8gk
about 1 month ago
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ICCT Europe 🇪🇺
about 1 month ago
🚗⚡ Europe’s electric vehicle market is closing the year strong despite ongoing uncertainty around the European CO2 standards review. Battery electric vehicles reached a 23% market share of new registrations in Europe.
#MarketMonitor
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Katharsis by Fjarill*
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Bu...
(* 🇸🇪 butterfly)
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Fjarill: KATHARSIS (Official Video)
YouTube video by Fjarill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Buy7NTsUY&list=RDH2Buy7NTsUY&start_radio=1
about 1 month ago
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
about 1 month ago
To fight climate change and achieve net-zero carbon emission targets, governments are increasingly betting on technologies that remove carbon dioxide from the air.
cen.acs.org/environment/...
#chemsky
🧪
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Enhanced rock weathering shows little climate benefit in large trial
3-year Swiss study underscores the importance of site selection to maximize CO<sub>2</sub> sequestration
https://cen.acs.org/environment/climate-change/enhanced-rock-weathering-co2-sequestration-climate-change/103/web/2025/12?sc=251222_sc_eng_bs_cen
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Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
about 1 month ago
BLOG: Massachusetts’ strong CDR policies and green building incentives, combined with growing data centers, create an opportunity to pair DAC with data centers to use waste heat, capture CO₂, and store it in the built environment.
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Can Data Centers Become Carbon Removal Hubs? Massachusetts Might Show How - Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Energy policy research from the University of Pennsylvania
https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/commentary/blog/can-data-centers-become-carbon-removal-hubs-massachusetts-might-show-how/
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix
about 1 month ago
"Chinese firms are on track for a 75% jump this year in global shipments of lithium-ion battery cells for energy storage,.. They have exported more than $65 billion worth of storage and electric-vehicle batteries this year, cementing their dominance in a sector vital to backing up wind and solar.."
add a skeleton here at some point
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Mame-Diarra Niang, Glitch 1, 2015
huismarseille.nl/fotografen/m...
about 1 month ago
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Franco Fontana, Landscape 1978
sammlung.kunststiftungdzbank.de/kuenstler/fr...
about 1 month ago
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"The €2 billion project will build an integrated, battery‑quality lithium supply chain based on geothermal brines, helping to reduce Europe’s reliance on imported raw materials and support the decarbonisation of transport and industry"
www.eib.org/en/press/all...
about 1 month ago
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"The wooden elements were assembled by six people in 26 weeks using a whopping 750,000 screws says Robert Winkel, founder of Mei architects and co-founder of Nice Developers..."
metropolismag.com/projects/saw...
about 1 month ago
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