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NASA’s New Earth Space Mission maps methane ‘super-emitters’

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—David Thompson, EMIT’s instrument scientist and a senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which manages the mission. The team also identified a methane plume south of Tehran, Iran, at least 3 miles (4.8 Blowing to the west, some plumes stretch more than 20 miles (32 kilometers).

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Gas Prices Rising, But Not For The Reasons You May Think

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per gallon of regular, with some areas of the country -- like California -- reaching a heady $4 a gallon. But while the Syrian uprising and political tensions between Iran and the West over its nuclear program are playing a small part in increasing the price you pay.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. Research in Iran was nonexistent.”

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MIT and IEA reports take different views of the future of natural gas in transportation

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More than 70% of all NGVs and one-half of all fuelling stations can be found in just five countries: Pakistan, Iran, Argentina, Brazil and India. California) might provide additional motivation for the market penetration of NGVs. MIT: leaning toward conversion for light-duty vehicles.

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