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ICCT paper assesses leading regional EV markets in US and policies behind them

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A new white paper from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses which policy actions are behind the regional leading markets in the US for electric vehicles. The white paper identifies the areas with the highest shares of EVs and catalogues the actions that support EV uptake.

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Steel LCA study: lightweighting with advanced high-strength steel produces lower GHG emissions than with aluminum

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The study was independently reviewed by expert representatives from Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Argonne National Lab, and thinkstep to establish conformance with International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the globally recognized benchmark for standard setting. million US homes.

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Competition Spurs Robotics and AI Innovations for Maritime Challenges

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Currently, ASPIRE is organizing a challenge called The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC). The MBZIRC had two previous iterations that were organized by Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi. There's a white-paper phase. The white paper phase closed on January 31st.

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The LEO Satellite Industry Needs More Engineers

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The IEEE Fellow is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Manitoba , Canada, and past vice president of IEEE Educational Activities. The IEEE senior member is a professor and chair of electronic systems and sensors at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg , in Germany.

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Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure

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“These recent cyberattacks in Pennsylvania and Texas highlight the growing frequency of cyber threats to water systems,” says study author Nilufer Tuptuk , a lecturer in security and crime science at University College London. We developed a white paper recommending this type of approach in 2021,” Morley says. “I

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Study finds GHG emissions associated with palm oil production have been significantly underestimated; implications for carbon intensity of biofuels as well as biofuel policies in Europe

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The study led by a team from the University of Leicester (UK) suggested that 86 Mg CO 2 -eq ha -1 yr -1 (over 50 years) or 100 Mg CO 2 -eq ha -1 yr -1 (over 25 years) represent the best available estimates of typical emissions from peat decomposition in palm plantations. greatly reducing or stopping carbon inputs to the peat from biomass.

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Yu Yuan on Building A Persistent Virtual World

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Let’s say the ultimate goal for the metaverse is to be able to create virtual universes that are indistinguishable from a real physical universe. That is ultimately one of the questions we need to answer in terms of connecting the universe of atoms to the universe of bits.