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Aura Systems and Cyclone Power Technologies partner for renewable power generation

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Aura Systems, Inc. The partners anticipate that the integrated renewable power generation system will be able to provide a turn-key distributed solution for customers looking to produce grid-tied or stand-alone electricity from renewable and waste resources. and Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc.

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Aura System’s Generator Incorporated into Azure’s Balance Hybrid for USPS

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Azure Dynamics Corporation incorporated Aura Systems ’s AuraGen motor/generator into its Balance Hybrid Electric vehicle delivered to the United States Postal Service fleet (USPS). In addition to hybrid applications, Aura is using its AuraGen and advanced power management system to support alternative energy solutions such as WePower Inc.’s

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Researchers suggests high level of air pollution in Northern Italy a co-factor in COVID-19 mortality rate

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The researchers used data from the NASA Aura satellite, which has demonstrated very high levels of air pollution across precisely these two regions. Lombardy and Emilia Romagna are Italian regions with both the highest level of virus lethality in the world and one of Europe’s most polluted areas. —Dario Caro, corresponding author.

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UMD-led study finds China’s SO2 emissions down 75% since 2007, India’s up 50%; India may now be the top SO2 emitter

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The researchers’ second data source was the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite, which detects a variety of atmospheric pollutants including sulfur dioxide. This work was supported by the NASA Earth Science Division Aura Science Team (Award No. 80NSSC17K0240), the National Science Foundation (Award No.

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International study finds air pollution leads to millions of hospital visits for asthma attacks worldwide

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Support for the study was provided by the NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Science Team, NASA Aura ACMAP, the Stockholm Environment Institute Low Emissions Development Pathways Initiative, and the Global Environment Research Fund of the Japan Ministry of the Environment. Anenberg, Daven K. Henze, Veronica Tinney, Patrick L.

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Wärtsilä supplying liquid bio-fuel powered main engines for new Finnish cargo vessel

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The Aura II , scheduled to be delivered in spring 2012, will be a multi-purpose dry cargo ship that can also be used for oil recovery operations in the Baltic Sea. The 6L20 genset has rated engine power of 1,100 kW (60 Hz) and generator power of 1,055 kW (60 Hz). Engine speed is 900–1,000 rpm, and per-cylinder output is 185 kW.

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Study finds power law scaling relationship between urban population and NO2 pollution

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The researchers used tropospheric NO 2 columns retrieved from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite, which measures NO 2 throughout the atmosphere in the afternoon around the world. Resources. Despite large populations, Indian cities seem cleaner in terms of NO 2 pollution than the study’s other regions.

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