General Motors is laying off 1,314 workers at manufacturing plants in Michigan, months after reaching a new labor contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW). The announcement was made Thursday (Dec. 14) and Local 4 was told 945 people will be employed at the automaker’s Orion Assembly Subsystems Plant in Orion Township. Officials say the … [Read more…]
Founded in September 2020, the Grenoble-based “deeptech” start-up Heliocity has developed HelioFlash, a base of artificial intelligence algorithms that makes it possible to diagnose the proper functioning of a solar power plant on buildings while providing recommendations to improve the installation. December 11, 2023 Francois Puthod Heliocity is a spin-off of INES (National Institute of … [Read more…]
When you visit a forest, pick up your trash and remember the oxygen it gives you so you can enjoy it. Reina Campos Caba Meteor-covered Chile 09/12/2023 1:00 p.m. 5 min Terrestrial vegetation acts as an important mitigator of anthropogenic climate change due to its ability to absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) each … [Read more…]
Nitrogen fertilizers form one of the pillars of the agricultural revolution of the 20th century and have become essential for maintaining current high agricultural yields. These fertilizers are made by removing gaseous nitrogen from the air. Since nitrogen gas is a very stable chemical molecule, its conversion into fertilizer requires an enormous amount of energy, … [Read more…]