Новости за 04.04.2023

Montreal (AFP) March 30, 2023 - As the world accelerates toward emissions-free driving, Canada is making a big push into batteries for electric vehicles -- touting tax incentives, bountiful critical minerals and clean energy to attract multinationals.

Its efforts appear to be paying off with companies such as Volkswagen and Stellantis opening plants and more than Can$18 billion (US$13 billion) in investment attracted to the sector, which is emerging as second only to top battery manufacturer China. Читать дальше...

Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Mar 31, 2023 - Recovering up to 70 percent of lithium from battery waste without corrosive chemicals, high temperatures, and prior sorting of materials being required: This is achieved by a recycling method developed by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The method combines mechanical processes with chemical reactions and enables inexpensive, energy-efficient, and environmentally compatible recycling of any type of lithium-ion batteries. The results are reported in Nature Communications Chemistry (DOI... Читать дальше...

Fukuoka, Japan (SPX) Mar 29, 2023 - Solid oxide fuel cells, or SOFC, are a type of electrochemical device that generates electricity using hydrogen as fuel, with the only 'waste' product being water. Naturally, as we strive to reduce our carbon output and mitigate the casualties of the climate crisis, both business and academia have taken major interest in the development of SOFCs.

In what can potentially accelerate the development of more efficient SOFCs, a research team led by Kyushu University... Читать дальше...

Bangalore, India (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 - Researchers at the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics (IAP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have designed a novel ultramicro supercapacitor, a tiny device capable of storing an enormous amount of electric charge. It is also much smaller and more compact than existing supercapacitors and can potentially be used in many devices ranging from streetlights to consumer electronics, electric cars and medical devices.

Most of these devices are currently powered by batteries. Читать дальше...

A herd of seven wild elephants entered a mosque at Burliar on Sunday night and left the place early next morning. Nothing was damaged except for a few vessels kept at the entrance. Video in this connection has gone viral on social media.

"It was two friends working with an intimacy coordinator and French-kissing a bunch. I remember on the set of [ A League of Their Own ] being like: 'Wow, we've kissed every day this week — that's what we do now. We just touch boobs and kiss.'" —D'Arcy Carden on filming with Abbi Jacobson.

Electricity minister V Senthil Balaji on Monday distributed welfare measures worth 5.39 crore to 416 beneficiaries from Alandurai town panchayat and Pichanur village panchayat.

San Francisco (AFP) March 29, 2023 - Artists outraged by artificial intelligence that copies in seconds the styles they have sacrificed years to develop are waging battle online and in court.

Fury erupted in the art community last year with the release of generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs that can convincingly carry out commands such as drawing a dog like cartoonist Sarah Andersen would, or a nymph the way illustrator Karla Ortiz might do.

Manchester UK (SPX) Apr 02, 2023 - A team of experts at The University of Manchester has been awarded major funding to help design smarter robots that will have more meaningfully dialogue with humans after developing improved insight into our inner feelings through language.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Professor Angelo Cangelosi, co-director of the Manchester Centre for Robotics and AI, a total of euro 2.5million as part of the eTALK project.

A 37-year-old patient jumped to death from the fifth floor of a private hospital in the city on early Monday morning. Police identified the deceased as T Pugazh Raja, a civil engineer from Zahir Ammapalayam in Salem district.

Only national-level leaders of the BJP will decide on an alliance with our party, newly elected AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami has said, implying that the state leaders of the saffron party will have no final say in the tie-up.

Mum-of-five Kerry Katona has taken part in a new TV experiment on E4 where celebrities attend nude therapy classes in the extreme show called The Big Celebrity Detox with a host of famous faces

IPL 2023: Mayers has progressed into a quality white-ball player, says Morkel

The show took place at Stowe boarding school in Buckinghamshire on April 4 1963, when the Beatles played at the school’s theatre.

Saturday's scores and highlights from girls matches on the pitch.

Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Kutter Crawford went to the mound Monday night against the Pittsburgh Pirates in hopes of turning around his team’s starting pitching struggles. But Crawford only kept the trend going. Like the three Red Sox starting pitchers before him, the 27-year-old didn’t come close to delivering a quality start in Boston’s […]

"In the short term, demand is expected to rise for the summer driving season, but higher oil prices may intensify inflationary pressures and prolong interest rate hikes in many countries, which could dampen demand," he said. Kikukawa noted the impact could also reignite concerns about the global financial industry.

Wynne was among the places particularly hit hard by tornados.