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Fish clogging in cooling tunnels threatens power station safety

Envirotec Magazine

After a recent shutdown at a French nuclear power plant due to the clogging of cooling tunnels by fish, industry experts have warned that new UK-based nuclear power plants will face the same issues – and they’re offering an acoustic deterrent system they say has a track record in resolving the problem.

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Rheinmetall wins new order for 800 V electric coolant pumps

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High-voltage CWA 2000 pumps are designed for use in 800 V architecture. Glandless design and bearings made for cooling water applications aim to limit wear and tear. Lower heat loss makes cooling systems smaller and more efficient. The order includes the provision of spare parts. Source: Rheinmetall

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Parker Lord expands its CoolTherm portfolio of thermally conductive materials

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CoolTherm SC-2000 RW (Reworkable) gap filler is a soft-curing, low-density and low-abrasion silicone gap filler with excellent thermal conductivity. CoolTherm SC-2000 RW was designed with rework in mind, in order to provide flexibility during battery manufacturing and end-of-life disassembly. This low-volatility, 3.0

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ChargePoint’s new 500 kW DC fast charging platform debuts as the power behind Mercedes’s new US charging network

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In the first large-scale deployment of the new Express Plus Power Link 2000 system, it will power Mercedes-Benz’s new HPC NA charging network , which the automaker is touting as a premium network commensurate with its luxury vehicles. Each station can simultaneously charge two vehicles at once, at sustained high speeds of up to 500 kW.

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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined

GreenBiz

To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. It forged the steel and glass in your car, and it also cooked the aluminum, plastic and silicon in the very screen on which you may be reading these words. . The urgency is growing.

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

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Cattle in Elk Creek, Missouri, submerge themselves in a pasture pond to cool off in between grazing on non-native fescue grass, which can raise a cow’s temperature and give them a constant fever, one of the symptoms of fescue toxicity. Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed Inc.

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Nearly all firms will miss net zero goals without at least doubling rate of emissions reductions by 2030

Envirotec Magazine

1] Defined as covering direct emissions from owned or controlled sources (Scope 1); indirect emissions from the generation of purchased electricity, steam, heating and cooling consumed by the reporting company (Scope 2); and all other indirect emissions that occur in a company’s value chain (Scope 3). [2]

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