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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

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For feedstock application, carbon stored in products such as plastics are not included in reported emissions for the states where they are produced. The greatest percentage decrease in carbon dioxide emissions occurred in Delaware (27.9%, 4.5 Climate Change Emissions' million tonnes). The greatest absolute decline was 58.8

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. Keep in mind, though, that electricity’s unique properties pose problems to anyone who would make a business of producing and delivering it. At the moment, the auto industry does not have a clear interest in V2G.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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Another terabase-sized metagenome project comes from Craig Cary at the University of Delaware and Charles Lee at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. University of Delaware. Microbial ecology and genomics of carbon-storing bacteria in rhizosphere soils. Cary, Stephen. DeAngelis, Kristen. University of Massachusetts.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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“I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? While utilities such as E.ON

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