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Natron, in partnership with Clarios, is launching the production of safe sodium—based batteries with a long life cycle and short charging time - mass production will begin next year in the USA. It is important that sodium-ion batteries do not use scarce and rather expensive lithium.

Aviation H2 has announced the first test flights of an aircraft with a power plant that runs on hybrid fuel from hydrogen and ammonia in mid-2023. With a high probability, they will beat competitors, and this will be the first commercial flight on such fuel. The main advantage of this technology is that it is suitable for upgrading existing aircraft and their jet engines.

Chinese researchers have discovered chemicals in lunar soil samples that can be used as catalysts for the production of hydrocarbons and oxygen. Potentially, the discovery will allow us to develop a technological process that provides future colonists with the main resources for living on the Moon. And also fuel for the return trip.

Chinese scientists from Nanjing University have found a way to convert lunar soil into carbon dioxide, oxygen and fuel. These works are described in Joule.

Will Europe be able to defeat Russia in the energy war?

Coal, oil and gas have become weapons that Russia uses against the West, writes Habertürk. According to the author of the article, Europe could have avoided this, but for many years it preferred not to do anything. Will it be able to abandon Russian energy resources now?

After oil, the turn will come to Russian uranium. The embargo will hit France and the United States

EU countries are striving to reduce dependence on Russian oil, gas and coal. Uranium has been ignored so far, writes iDNES. Europe and the USA buy a lot of it from Russia. Therefore, the embargo on this resource will hurt them.

Finland has terminated the contract with Rosatom for the construction of a nuclear power plant. However, for Russia, the outcome of this project is, one might say, a great success, because Rosatom signed up here for financially unfavorable conditions. It is better to exit the project now, while the main investments have not yet been made. Why did the state corporation fit into this project? And what economic benefits is Finland depriving itself of?

How Ukraine turned Europe's agrarian and energy policy upside down

The European energy sector is in chaos. Earlier, the European Union planned to switch to more active use of "blue" hydrogen. It is made from natural gas, which he buys from Russia. Now, because of its own sanctions against Moscow, Europe will have to "refine" its own energy strategy, writes TNI.

The Ministry of Defense has published footage of the organization of logistics (MTO) units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the field when performing tasks during the special operation of the Russian Federation to protect Donbass.

Rostec United Engine Corporation has developed the first Russian GTA-8 power plant for offshore production platforms. The unit is resistant to extreme conditions: salt water, storms and negative temperatures. The first installations will provide power supply to the Arctic ice-resistant platform "Kamennomysskoye-Sea" off the coast of Yamal.

Previously, the provision of warring units meant timely supplies of ammunition, dry linen, water and food. Now the military needs huge reserves of electricity to carry out daily operations. In particular, we are talking about ensuring the normal functioning of command posts, communication systems, material supply of troops. Military experts predict an increase in the army's electricity needs over the next decade.

NATO countries have agreed on the supply of heavy offensive weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, the armored vehicles coming from the West require Ukraine to concentrate the appropriate fuel reserves. Previously, the lion's share of the fuel market in the country belonged to Minsk and Moscow. Now the situation has changed a lot – the Russian army is systematically destroying refineries and fuel bases in Ukraine. Who supplies Ukrainian planes and tanks with fuel and how can the Russian Armed Forces prevent this?

Rosatom plans to build a plant in the Kaliningrad Region for the production of lithium-ion cells and batteries with a total capacity of about 4 GWh per year, which will start operating in 2025 and will meet the needs of Russian automakers in traction batteries.

There were shots with preliminary consequences of a missile strike inflicted on the facility of the fuel and energy complex of Ukraine in the Dnipropetrovsk region. We are talking about the fuel terminal, which was located on the territory of the Novomoskovsky district of Dnipropetrovsk region. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted targeted strikes with missile weapons, completely eliminating the reserves of petroleum products that were used for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and nationalist armed formations.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, independent Ukraine retained control over all Soviet enterprises of the military-industrial complex located on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. For thirty post-Soviet years, the policy of Ukrainian leaders and an incredibly high level of corruption have led to the shutdown and termination of the existence of many enterprises of the "defense industry", which the Ukrainian state inherited from the Soviet era.

Russia destroyed the fuel storage facilities of the Kremenchug oil refinery with high-precision weapons. This is the last of the large oil refineries operating on the territory of Ukraine. In addition, military airfields in Poltava and Dnepropetrovsk were destroyed. Even if there is a strategic fuel reserve, the Ukrainian army will soon not be able to properly operate heavy equipment, which will affect the ability of the military to fight.

Rosatom has not stopped any nuclear power plant construction project abroad in the current situation, said Alexey Likhachev, Director General of the state corporation.

Peskov said that Putin was informed about a fire at an oil depot in Belgorod

The governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said that two helicopters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out two airstrikes in Belgorod, as a result of which a fire started at the city oil depot, engulfing eight fuel tanks. According to the authorities, no one was injured during the emergency, but because of the fire, residents of houses on three streets near the enterprise began to be resettled in less dangerous places. The Ministry of Energy said that the fire will not affect the cost of fuel and its availability.

Poland covers its economic interests with a special operation in Ukraine

President Joseph Biden is trying to prevent an impending hurricane economic crisis on his territory by unleashing one or more armed conflicts in Europe, including in Ukraine, using European financial, economic, military and human resources to the maximum.

Electric cars in Russia and lithium fever in the world

Against the background of the special military operation of the Russian army in Ukraine, Russia came under numerous sanctions mainly from Western countries, which exposed the country's significant dependence on imports in the field of high technologies of a number of industries.