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Exhausted: How We Can Stop Lithium Mining from Depleting Water Resources, Draining Wetlands, and Harming Communities in South America

May 14, 2022 admin Argentina, batteries, Bolivia, chile, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, lithium, lithium brine extraction, lithium-ion batteries, nrdc, research, South America, Water

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 12:03:51 +0000

To mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, we must transition away from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal and toward clean energy generation and zero-emission transportation options. However, many green technologies, such as electric vehicles and renewable power plants, depend on lithium-ion batteries, which require lithium. Lithium resources are concentrated in locations that have […]

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Lithium: Good News for the Australian Mining Industry

February 21, 2022 admin Argentina, Australia, batteries, Bolivia, chile, China, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, lithium, lithium-ion batteries

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 12:00:33 +0000

In good news for the Australian mining industry, miners produced 55,000 tonnes of lithium in 2021, a 28% increase from the 39,700 tonnes of lithium produced in 2020. This is approximately half of global production. Australia is the global leader in lithium production in 2021, with Chile (26,000 tonnes), China (14,000 tonnes), and Argentina (6,200 […]

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Report: Investment in Renewables Hit Record High in 2019

January 16, 2020 admin Argentina, biomass, bloombergnef, bnef, Brazil, Business, chile, China, geothermal, global, Hydro, India, International, investment, Japan, Mexico, netherlands, news, offshore wind, Renewables, Solar, u.s., UAE, uk, Ukraine, waste to energy, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 19:33:18 +0000

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Financial support for installations of offshore wind projects helped investment in renewable energy capacity hit a record high in 2019, according to data from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF) released Jan. 16. The group said worldwide investment in renewables was $282.2 billion last year, up 1% from $280.2 billion in 2018. Financing of offshore wind projects, […]

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Condoms Have Gotten So Damned Expensive in Argentina that People Aren’t Using Protection

September 19, 2019 admin Argentina, Birth Control, Condoms, Contraception, Sexually transmitted diseases, the pill, unwanted pregnancies

Credit to Author: Tim Marcin| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:01:36 +0000

Tens of thousands may be having unsafe sex because the price of condoms and the pill have spiked in the recession-plagued country.

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Cesar Pelli, creator of Malaysia’s Petronas Towers dies aged 92

July 20, 2019 admin architecture, Argentina, death, Latest News Stories, Obit, pelli, World

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:57:17 +0000

Cesar Pelli, the Argentine architect and creator of Malaysia’s Petronas Towers and New York’s One World Financial Center

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Obiena just keeps on winning

July 17, 2019 admin Argentina, ej obiena, SEA Games, Sports, World Championships

Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:00:37 +0000

Less than a week after posting a new Philippine record at the 2019 Universiade Games, Obiena cleared the 5.55-meter barrier to beat out Theodo Chrysanthopoulos of Greece (5.30m) and Argentina’s German Chiaraviglio (5.30m).

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Peru shocks champion Chile

July 4, 2019 admin alexis sanchez, Argentina, copa america, Peru, soccer

Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2019 13:00:02 +0000

Goals from Edison Flores, Yoshimar Yotun and Paolo Guerrero handed Peru a deserved win which sends them into a final against Brazil at the Maracana Stadium on Sunday.

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China, Russia Looking to Build Nuclear Plants in Argentina

July 1, 2019 admin Argentina, atucha, Business, China, International, news, Nuclear, reactor, Russia, Technology

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Argentina, the first Latin American country to adopt nuclear power when the Atucha I plant began operation in 1974, has plans to expand its nuclear generation, with Russia and China vying to implement their

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Chile Presents a Coal Exit Plan

June 30, 2019 admin acciona, Argentina, Business, chile, climate change, Coal, coal retirements, engie, Gas, geothermal, Hydro, International, Markets, news, Power Demand, Renewables, Solar, solar thermal, T&D, Technology, transmission, Wind

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Chile, a country that relied on coal for about two-fifths of its power generation in 2016, in June announced it would mothball eight coal plants, totaling 23 GW, of its existing 28-plant coal fleet over the

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Apagón: A Blackout Sweeps South America

June 25, 2019 admin apagon, Argentina, blackout, Business, Coal, Gas, grid disturbance, Hydro, hydropower, International, Markets, news, Nuclear, paraguay, Power Demand, reliability, Renewables, T&D, Technology, Transmission Lines, Uruguay

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:33:26 +0000

Authorities have initiated a far-reaching investigation into an unprecedented blackout that on June 16 hit a wide swath of South America—most of Argentina and Uruguay, and parts of Paraguay—affecting tens of millions of people. The massive blackout—apagón—is thought to have originated in a disturbance that affected two high-voltage lines, Colonia Elia Y Mercedes and Colonia […]

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