POWER Digest [December 2019]

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000

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Israeli Group Supports Construction of 1.3-GW Gas-Fired Plant. The Israeli National Infrastructure Committee on Nov. 4 approved a plan to build Israel’s largest privately run power plant, saying the facility

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Watch Tesla Model 3 Hot Off The Production Line At Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 23:15:00 +0000

The latest video from Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai shows Model 3 vehicles emerging from the end of the production line and coming out into the world for the first time. Cute!

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Sucking Sand To Save The Land (Or Make New Land)

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 02:51:10 +0000

One day, there’s a ring of reefs in the ocean, or an atoll. Coral, fish, various invertebrates, and many types of plants call the place home. The next day, it’s raining sand. First, it starts to fill in the cracks and voids in the coral. Plants get buried, and then even some of the fish. As the sand keeps falling and falling, everything that can’t move fast enough gets buried. Eventually the sand is so deep, it breaks the top of the water

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Anatomy of money laundering in B.C. real estate: 12 cases, $1.7 billion, 20 countries and 30 banks

Credit to Author: Gordon Hoekstra| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 20:20:39 +0000

As British Columbians confront, understand and quantify the effects of money laundering in real estate, there remains skepticism over whether, and to what extent, illicit money can be laundered in real estate

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China Ramping Renewables, and Building More Coal Plants

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:00:24 +0000

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Officials in China in 2017 said the country—the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases—would move away from coal-fired power generation. They promptly canceled more than 100 coal power plant construction projects. But coal remains king in China, which in the past two years has added 43 GW of coal-fired generation capacity, according to a report […]

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