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Green Artificial Intelligence: China Navigating the AI Environmental Paradox
Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands at the forefront of technological innovation, promising to revolutionise industries and enhance efficiencies across various sectors. But as AI’s capabilities expand, so does its environmental footprint. By 2030, AI data centers are projected to consume up to 3% of global electricity, a significant increase from current levels. Energy Consumption Challenge The Continue reading
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Chinese, international scientists urge greater collaboration for sustainable development
Chinese and international scientists have called on the global scientific community to unite and make greater contributions toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through continued exploration at the frontiers of science and technology. The remarks were made in Beijing on Saturday at a seminar titled “Sustainable Development and Inclusive Collaboration: Responsibilities of the Scientific Community,” Continue reading
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China: materials recovered from end-of-life EV batteries & solar cells powering “circular economy”
Costly components such as lithium along with other materials such as cobalt and nickel, hold their value beyond the life of the batteries powering China’s massive electric-vehicle (EV) industry. “There is huge potential in the business of new-energy waste, because new energy is where China and the world are going,” said the sales manager at Continue reading
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China’s dominance in global chip research
Semiconductors are a critical part of almost every modern electronic device. In electronics, a chip refers to a small piece of semiconductor that contains electronic circuits that store and process information. Today they can contain billions of microscopic switches on a chip smaller than a fingernail. The Center for Security and Emerging Technology (ETO) at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., publishes the Research Continue reading
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China Achieves Solar-powered Water Splitting for Hydrogen Production
Chinese researchers recently achieved a breakthrough in “photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production.” The scientists did this by performing “structural reshaping” and “element substitution” on a semiconductor material, they significantly enhanced the efficiency of converting water into clean hydrogen energy by using sunlight. Current solar-driven hydrogen production primarily relies on two methods — one uses Continue reading
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Starlink satellites ‘a giant uncontrolled experiment in atmospheric chemistry’
Musk’s Starlink designed to dump polluting space debris on Earth? Elon Musk’s Starlink network is reported to be facing a major setback as 120 satellites fell from orbit in January 2025. This incident raises concerns about satellite reliability, space debris, and the future of global internet coverage. Did something go wrong, and what does this mean for the Continue reading
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China’s new era of Intelligent EVs
There’s a new buzzword in China’s electric vehicle industry. CATL’s co-chairman said EVs in China have gotten a new label: EIV. The term stands for “electric intelligent vehicles”. China’s EV industry has seen an influx of affordable vehicles like the Xiaomi SU7 which are packed with AI technology. Pan Jian, the co-chairman of battery manufacturer Continue reading
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Robots – key to overcoming EV charging challenges globally?
As electric vehicles boom and bring about charging challenges worldwide, China is producing self-driving charging robots to juice up EVs as part of broader efforts for a more advanced EV ecosystem. NaaS Technology, one of China’s largest and fastest-growing EV charging service providers, recently launched such a robot that finds EVs, smart-charges them and collects Continue reading
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Mobile charging robots powering up EVs on Chinese Expressways
State Grid Corp of China — the world’s largest utility company — has adopted an innovative approach to mobile charging solutions by using autonomous electric vehicle charging robots during China’s Spring Festival holiday this year. Revolutionizing Spring Festival travel rush. At city charging stations and highway service centers, the robots have been busy locating vehicles Continue reading
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Shanghai company: A game-changer in green chemical tanker transport
Shanghai Xingtong Lianfa Shipping has launched as a joint venture, advancing green shipping solutions and revolutionizing the global chemical transportation market through innovation, collaboration, and a focus on sustainability In a groundbreaking move for the maritime industry, Shanghai Xingtong Lianfa Shipping Co., Ltd. officially launched on January 6, 2025. The company is a joint venture between Continue reading
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Top Chinese scientists abandon US positions – universities losing hundreds of billions of dollars
Research and Development (R&D) is a major profit center for the top universities in the United States. Besides the nearly $100 billion they earn in grants from the US government and private sources, university-based researchers create patents and inventions that generate many more billions annually. China is the largest foreign source of scientists and researchers Continue reading
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Chinese scientists discover mineral crystal enriched with water molecules on the moon
Researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with scholars from several renowned Chinese universities, discovered an unidentified mineral crystal enriched with water molecules on the moon from the Chang’e-5 lunar samples, a breakthrough that indicates that for the first time, molecular water was found in lunar soil, the Xinhua News Continue reading
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