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Berkeley Lab releases 8th edition of databook on China’s energy and environment; finding the “missing” energy consumption

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We have gathered statistical information on energy and energy demand drivers from all different resources, such as the China Environment Yearbook , the Transportation Yearbook , the Power Yearbook , the Iron and Steel Yearbook , the Cement Almanac , statistics of oil companies and power companies. It was underreported.

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Study Highlights Persistence of Environmental Lead Contamination from Emissions in the Past

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Laporte (2010) Declining—but Persistent—Atmospheric Contamination in Central California from the Resuspension of Historic Leaded Gasoline Emissions As Recorded in the Lace Lichen ( Ramalina menziesii Taylor) from 1892 to 2006. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es100246e.

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Researchers castigate planning bodies for ill-conceived Jatropha programs

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In 2006, China decided to meet 15% of its transportation energy needs by 2020 and, following India’s example, focused on Jatropha, with plans to raise it on more than 1 million ha of marginal lands. Environmental Science & Technology Article ASAP doi: /10.1021/es201943. —Kant and Wu.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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The company’s first data center designed by Barroso opened in 2006 in The Dalles, Ore. Rao authored more than 14 books and 400 journal articles during his career. he helped develop the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) , the first U.S. At the defense electronics company, located in Greenlawn, N.Y., air defense system.

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Build a Passive Radar With Software-Defined Radio

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IEEE Spectrum since 2006, when SDR become something remotely within a maker’s budget. I really wish more companies would adopt this approach, as installing open-source software is often a frustrating exercise in trying to replicate the precise system environment it was developed in. I’ve checked in with amateur SDR developments for.

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VTT and Deinove Partner to Optimize Ethanol and Chemicals Production from Renewable Feedstocks Using Self-Repairing Extremophile Deinococcus

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The details of this discovery were published in the journal Nature in 2006 and patented by Deinove. The mechanism is used by these robust but non-pathogenic bacteria to survive in very hostile environments. Lindner, Miroslav Radman (2006) Reassembly of shattered chromosomes in Deinococcus radiodurans. Radman lab.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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But Tan reasoned that “if the company just manufactured the player, it would not make a lot of money,” according to a 2005 article in the Straits Times. Henn Tan holds up a ThumbDrive during an interview in Singapore in January 2006. It wasn’t odd that the company wanted to jump into the MP3-player fray.

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