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India Releases GHG Report; Fifth Largest Emitter in 2007

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India has released a report on its greenhouse gas emissions in 2007, becoming the first “non-Annex I” (i.e. India GHG emissions by sector in 2007 (million tons of CO 2 eq). Net Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from India in 2007 (emissions with land use, land use change and forestry, LULUCF), were 1727.71 million in 2007.

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The Real Reason for USA based Economic Recessions.

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There have been 5 recession since then until now and I wanted to see if Oil had anything to do with them, because deep in my heart, I knew the most recent recession was directly caused by the oil price spikes that started in 2007 and peaked in 2008. By 2005 the Fed Funds Target Rate was 2.25% and then by the beginning of 2007 it was 5.25%.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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Paying Tribute to 1997 IEEE President Charles K. Alexander

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He was also the 1993 vice president of the IEEE United States Activities Board (now IEEE-USA ). At the time of his death, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cleveland State University and served as dean of its engineering school. programs for electrical engineering.

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ABAT and Wuxi Angell Autocycle Introduce Three Hybrid Motorcycles

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All three models are equipped with a lithium-ion battery pack (48V rated voltage and 15 Ah rated capacity) developed by the ABAT. The computerized control puts the motorcycle on pure-electric drive at low speed, and switches to the gasoline engine at high speed while recharging the batteries.

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Oxford Catalysts in $5.9M Fischer-Tropsch Demonstration and Commercialization Agreement; Focus on Biomass- and Waste-to-Liquids Applications

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and SGCE have been working together since 2007 under a memorandum of understanding. MW heat and 2 MW electricity for domestic and industrial customers. MW heat and 2 MW electricity for domestic and industrial customers. Earlier post.). Oxford Catalysts’ US subsidiary, Velocys, Inc.

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LanzaTech collaborating with Swayana to convert waste gases from ferroalloy production to ethanol

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In all cases, however, the production of ferroalloys is energy-intensive. In a 2007 paper presented at the XI International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry (Infacon XI), a team from the US EPA, the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT), and SINTEF Materials and Chemistry (Lindstad et al. Resources.