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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. In Poland and China, for example, an EV would need to be driven 78,700 miles to break-even. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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This Computer Pioneer’s Invention Made Zoom Possible

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Egbert Adriaan Kreiken , a professor of astronomy at Ankara University , convinced the teenager that electronics engineering was going to be the “next big thing.” Gelenbe has spent his entire career in academia, and he has established a computer research lab at just about every university where he taught. That was in the late 1950s.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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With the conclusion of the 14 th Congress in Poznań, Poland a year later and little progress made, member delegates, some of who had been showing signs of pessimism and fatigue in their statements to the press, were left with just four second-level meetings at which to resolve major outstanding differences.

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