Some catch-up, from Energy Storage News, May 22:
Northvolt completes construction of Poland ESS factory
European lithium-ion gigafactory firm Northvolt has completed construction of its energy storage system (ESS) production facility in Poland and expects to start production by the end of 2023.
The Sweden-headquartered firm announced the completion of construction on Linkedin over the weekend (20 May), saying it is Europe’s largest factory for ESS solutions. The facility will build its ‘Voltainer’ ESS product.
“The facility is powered solely by electricity from renewable sources. This aligns with our company’s business model, which focuses on using only green energy in all our factories located in Poland, Sweden, and Germany, as well as utilising recycled materials,” said Robert Chryc-Gawrychowski, CEO of Northvolt Poland.
The company is aiming to open the facility and start production by the end of the year. When first announced in late 2021, Northvolt said the plant would open with an initial annual production capacity of 5GWh and a potential future capacity of 12GWh.
It will receive cells from the company’s Swedish flagship gigafactory, Northvolt Ett, and the project received an EU innovation grant of €75 million (US$81 million)....
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And from The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply, May 3:
Dyson makes biggest bid yet in advanced battery manufacturing
Household appliances firm Dyson is to set up a state-of-the-art battery manufacturing plant in Singapore as part of a global push, which will also see it opening new R&D labs in the Philippines and the UK.
The company, which is now headquartered in Singapore and carries out the bulk of its manufacturing there, chose the island state as the home for its first proprietary new technology battery plant.
Dyson expects the plant, which will represent its biggest ever investment in “advanced manufacturing”, to be completed this year and to be operational by 2025.
The facility will produce batteries for Dyson products.
“Dyson started its in-house battery programme more than a decade ago, to pioneer smaller, lighter, more sustainable, and more energy-dense batteries,” said the company.
“Research teams have been working globally on the proprietary new technology battery, which uses novel materials and processes, and is assembled in a smart, digitally-enabled environment.”
Dyson chief executive officer Roland Krueger praised Singapore’s “highly skilled engineers and scientists, and supportive government that embraces Industry 4.0 manufacturing technologies"....
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But what about the Gurkhas? They never mention the Gurkhas.
Those are a couple members of Singapore's Gurkha Contingent. The gent in the foreground is the close-in guy, you can tell, not from the knife at his back, they all have those, but from the shotgun, whereas his partner has an automatic rifle.
Singapore employs 2000 as a very special department within the Singapore police.
Here's a story we linked to in 2011 about a Gurkha and some would-be rapists:
POKHARA, Jan 13: Gorkha soldiers have long been known the world over for their valor and these khukuri-wielding warriors winning the British many a battle have become folklore.Got that?
A retired Indian Gorkha soldier recently revisited those glory days when he thwarted 40 robbers, killing three of them and injuring eight others, with his khukuri during a train journey. He is in line to receive three gallantry awards from the Indian government.
Slave girl Morgiana in the Arabian Nights used her cunning to finish off Ali Baba´s 40 thieves, but Bishnu Shrestha of Baidam, Pokhara-6 did not have time to plot against the 40 train robbers. He, however, made good use of his khukuri to save the chastity of a girl and hundreds of thousands in loot.
Shrestha, who was in the Maurya Express to Gorakhpur from Ranchi on September 2 while returning home following voluntary retirement from the Indian army--saved the girl who was going to be raped by the robbers in front of her hapless parents, and in doing so won plaudits from everybody.
The Indian government is to decorate Shrestha with its Sourya Chakra, Bravery Award and Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Medal and the 35-year-old is leaving for India Saturday to receive the first of the awards on the occasion of India´s Republic Day on January 26.
“The formal announcement of the awards will be made on Republic Day and on Independence Day on August 15,” said Shrestha, whose father Gopal Babu also retired from the same 7/8 Platoon of the Gorkha Regiment around 29 years ago.
His regiment has already given him a cash award of Indian rupees 50,000, and decided to terminate his voluntary retirement. He will get the customary promotion after receiving the medals. The Indian government will also announce a cash bounty for him and special discounts on international air tickets and domestic train tickets.
The band of about 40 robbers, some of whom were travelling as passengers, stopped the train in the Chittaranjan jungles in West Bengal around midnight. Shrestha-- who had boarded the train at Ranchi in Jharkhand, the place of his posting--was in seat no. 47 in coach AC3.
“They started snatching jewelry, cell phones, cash, laptops and other belongings from the passengers,” Shrestha recalled. The soldier had somehow remained a silent spectator amidst the melee, but not for long. He had had enough when the robbers stripped an 18-year-old girl sitting next to him and tried to rape her right in front of her parents. He then took out his khukuri and took on the robbers.
“The girl cried for help, saying ´You are a soldier, please save a sister´,” Shrestha recalled. “I prevented her from being raped, thinking of her as my own sister,” he added. He took one of the robbers under control and then started to attack the others. He said the rest of the robbers fled after he killed three of them with his khukuri and injured eight others.
During the scuffle he received serious blade injury to his left hand while the girl also had a minor cut on her neck. “They had carried out their robbery with swords, blades and pistols. The pistols may have been fake as they didn´t open fire,” he surmised....MORE
With his khukuri knife he charged 40 low-life punks armed with pistols, knives and swords.
Killed three. Wounded eight. Chased the other 29 away.
A different approach to gang-rape from that evinced by, say, the South Yorkshire Police, know what I'm sayin'?
Singapore hires 'em as cops. Pretty smart if you ask me.
