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.
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
Got that?
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.
