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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Steven Cherry Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum's podcast, Fixing the Future. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. When we come back, I'll ask him to walk us through some of IBM's most difficult moments, and to speculate about its uncertain future.

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Two Studies on Regional Options for Reducing GHG Highlight Need for Reduction in Travel Intensity

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Projected GHG emissions in Minnesota with different reduction wedges and wedge portfolios, in million metric tons of CO 2 equivalent. The team from the Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Initiative, University of Minnesota examined the potential for policies and technologies to effect GHG reductions across all sectors in the state.

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

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The BAU scenario assumes future population and land use trends throughout the study region will be consistent with historical change. The core of the study’s approach is a vehicle activity modeling framework for associating future land use and demographic characteristics, under BAU, SG1, and SG2 scenarios, with household vehicle travel.

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Study finds EV deployment in China to increase Environmental Justice challenge there

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A new study by a team from the University of Tennessee, Tsinghua University and the University of Minnesota has found that the wide-scale deployment of electric vehicles in China can increase the Environmental Justice (EJ) challenge in that country. In prior research, we calculated health impacts of PM 2.5 —Ji et al.

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IKEA Teams Up With Electrify America To Provide Charging in The United States.

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As a result, more than 200 public chargers will be installed at IKEA retail sites in 18 states, including Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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The system also must be able to cope in a multihour-outage situation, where future electrical appliances and EV charging will commence all at once when power is restored, placing a heavy peak load on the distribution system. In the next article in the series, we will look at the complexities of creating an EV charging infrastructure.

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Study Finds Regional Variations in Irrigation Practices Can Push Corn Ethanol Water Requirements 3x Higher Than Earlier Estimates; Need to Account for Regional Specifics in Mandates

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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have estimated state-level field-to-pump water requirements of corn ethanol production across the US. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es8031067. The TCW, as measured by a state’s EWe and ethanol production (seen in the background), illustrates local and regional ethanol-induced impacts. Credit: ACS.

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