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NSC: US motor vehicle fatalities up 9% in 1H 2016; trending toward deadliest driving year since 2007

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Preliminary estimates from the National Safety Council (NSC) indicate motor vehicle deaths were 9% higher through the first six months of 2016 than in 2015, and 18% higher than two years ago at the six month mark. The total estimated cost of these deaths and injuries is $205 billion. million were seriously injured.

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U of I study: synthetic fuels via CO2 conversion and FT not currently economically & environmentally competitive

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A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel. —Li et al.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. and a Ph.D.

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Enbridge to invest $6.2B in pipeline expansions for light oil from North Dakota and Canada

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Estimated capital cost of this project is approximately $2.5 This entails full reversal and capacity expansion of Line 9 to 300,000 bpd and US mainline system expansions—through the addition of pumping horsepower and increased terminal capability at existing sites—between Flanagan, Illinois, and the border near Sarnia, Ontario.

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Oil Well Strippers Suffering From Low Oil Prices

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Stripper-operated wells account for all of the oil production in the state of Illinois, for instance. With average monthly costs of around $2,000, that means that a stripper has to pump at least 2.33 Stripper well shutdowns could increase significantly as 2016 gears up. These wells account for roughly 11.3

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Biodiesel from engineered sugarcane more economical than from soybean

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A techno-economic analysis by a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has determined that biodiesel produced from oil from genetically modified lipid-producing sugarcane (lipid-cane) is much more economical than biodiesel produced from soybean oil. per gallon ($1.08

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Study finds isopropanol-n-butanol-ethanol and gasoline blend viable as alternative fuel

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Researchers from the University of Illinois and colleagues in China investigating the performance, combustion and emission characteristics of a port fuel-injection SI engine fueled with isopropanol-n-butanol-ethanol (IBE)-gasoline blends have concluded that an IBE30 blend could be a good alternative to gasoline. —Li et al.