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GECF: more than a quarter of 2050 natural gas supply untapped

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average economic growth rate between 2000 and 2019, continuously expanding domestic gas production, attracting investors, and enhancing knowledge and technologies exchange. As a holder of the fourth-largest volume of gas reserves worldwide, Turkmenistan has been unlocking the potential of natural gas, leading to an 11.5%

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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The research relied on publicly available data sourced from OpenStreetMap , the Wikipedia of maps, and satellite-derived data. SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014. Gridded street networks, on the other hand, promote efficient, dense urban form in Bolivia, Argentina and Peru. Barrington-Leigh and Millard-Ball.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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It was when microprocessors became available that I think the lightbulb went off for Bruce that said, Hey, if I put this idea I’ve got for a flight simulator onto cheaper computers, and get that to work, there’s a market for that.” It included a bird’s-eye perspective of locales like Machu Picchu, in Peru.

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