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Virginia Tech researchers find estimates of the carbon cycle are incorrect; implications for models

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—Lisa Welp, an associate professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences at Purdue University, who was not part of the research. student at Virginia Tech and is now at Northwest A&F University in China. Dorheim, K. Nat Commun 13, 1733 doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-29391-5.

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South Korean EV Company to Open Two Production and Distribution Facilities in Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell made the announcement at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. CT&T makes low- and mid-speed, short-distance neighborhood electric vehicles that pass crash tests required for regular passenger cars. The vehicles sell for about $12,000.

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MIT study: people globally follow a “visitation law”; inverse relationship between distance and frequency of visits

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A new paper by an MIT team and colleagues in Singapore, China, Italy and Denmark, drawing on global data, finds that people visit places more frequently when they have to travel shorter distances to get there. 2021) “The universal visitation law of human mobility.” Schläpfer, M., O’Keeffe, K.

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Honda announces second plug-in vehicle testing program; Japan joins US, China may follow

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In addition to Japan and the United States, Honda is considering the possibility of conducting a similar program in China. In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., Study the low noise impact of electric vehicles in residential neighborhoods. Click to enlarge.

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Worldwatch Institute study expects number of countries running high-speed rail nearly to double by 2014

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By 2014, high-speed trains will be operating in nearly 24 countries, including China, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the United States, up from 14 countries today. Two-thirds of this fleet is found in just five countries: France, China, Japan, Germany, and Spain. By 2014, the global fleet is expected to total more than 3,700 units.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” Their research partnership ran for four years. That could change soon.

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