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Mandatory Credit: Photo by ALEX PLAVEVSKI/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (12559629l) A photo made with a drone shows wind power generators in Yancheng, Jiangsu province, China, 27 October 2021. SHFRP New Energy has produced the world's longest wind power glass fiber blade S90, and the domestic longest wind power blade S102. On 02 September 2021, the onshore blade S89, 89 meters long equipped with a new generation of electric wind power product platform units was successfully rolled off the assembly line. Production cuts, high coal prices, and the Chinese government's determination to cut emissions caused a severe power supply crunch. Amid economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the cost of thermal coal has almost doubled this year to the increased demand for industrial use of electricity. China wind power generator blades factory, Yancheng - 27 Oct 2021

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1 November 2021

We could slash emissions from database backups or long machine-learning tasks by waiting to run them until renewable energy makes up the largest part of the energy mix
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29 October 2021

The microscopic organisms have previously survived exposure to the vacuum of space and are able to hibernate using just 0.01 per cent of their normal energy

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