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CU Boulder study: routine household activities generate air quality on par with major polluted city

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Furthermore, airborne chemicals that originate inside a house don’t stay there: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from products such as shampoo, perfume and cleaning solutions eventually escape outside and contribute to ozone and fine particle formation, making up an even greater source of global atmospheric air pollution than cars and trucks do.

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US DOE awards ~$5M to expand research on methane hydrates

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In May 2012, the Energy Department, alongside its Japanese partners, announced a successful field trial of methane hydrate production technologies on Alaska’s North Slope. University of Washington. Earlier post.). DOE Investment: approximately $900,000. ?University DOE Investment: approximately $280,000.

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Researchers present new explanation for the long-range transport of PAH pollutants

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Most PAHs are anthropogenic byproducts of energy production and use and of biomass burning. The predictions are based on the assumption that the particles are like liquid spheres, whose fluidity allows PAHs to escape. But they don’t escape, and one recent advance has helped to pin down why PAHs are remaining stuck in the particles.

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NRC report concludes hydraulic fracturing poses low risk for causing earthquakes, but risks are higher for wastewater injection wells; CCS impact undetermined

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The process cracks the shale rock formation and allows natural gas to escape and flow up the well, along with some wastewater. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2012. The wastewater can be discarded in several ways, including injection underground at a separate site. National Research Council.

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Frank Talk on Plug-Ins

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photo EV World H ere is a new interview with Andy Frank from Washington Technology. Survival Guide: Perspectives from the field Washington Technology Feb. That was one of the reasons for our Plug-In Partners launch in Washington, to get fleet users from around the country to say to the car companies, “If you build it, we’ll buy it.”

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Indeed, hyped-up product announcements at industry events like the Consumer Electronics Show (now CES ) and the Game Developers Conference have become regular features of the digital world. Once Kahn found a venue for the demo—at the International Conference on Computer Communications (ICCC), to be held in Washington, D.C.,

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Some researchers say PARC was a product of the 1960s and that decade’s philosophy of power to the people, of improving the quality of life. When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines.

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