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Hydrogen hope for aviation industry

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Scientists from Glasgow University are using nanotechnology to find a way to store the gas in a solid state, according to the BBC. Working in collaboration with EADS Innovation Works, the university hopes to overcome the major hurdles currently [.].

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President Obama announces nearly $4B public-private investment in energy upgrades to buildings; $2B government commitment

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In addition, 60 CEOs, mayors, university presidents, and labor leaders committed to invest nearly $2 billion of private capital into energy efficiency projects; and to upgrade energy performance by a minimum of 20% by 2020 in 1.6 Last year, commercial buildings consumed roughly 20% of all the energy used by the US economy.

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With this Ruby Laser, George Porter Sped up Photochemistry

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student in chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1945, he found the equipment there “remarkably primitive,” as he told an interviewer in later life. In 1954 he left Cambridge to become assistant director of the British Rayon Research Association, but he soon realized he was better suited to academia than industry.

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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A 2019 analysis by researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, found that training a very large deep learning system could potentially emit as much carbon dioxide as five cars over their full operational lifetimes. In a January 2020 interview with the BBC, Yoshua Bengio said that "AI's abilities were somewhat overhyped.

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam. One of our industry partners, PowerLight Technologies , formerly known as LaserMotive, has been developing laser-based power-beaming systems for more than a decade. Lighthouse Dev in 2012.

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

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ]. ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s Give them the choice, and they’ll shift.

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