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EIA: China’s use of methanol in liquid fuels has grown rapidly since 2000; >500K bpd in 2016

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Now, a study commissioned by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) from eia.gov (a global provider of analysis on energy and commodities), finds that since the early 2000s, China’s consumption of methanol in fuel products has risen sharply. Annual methanol consumption in China, 2000-16. Click to enlarge. Background.

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Engineered E. coli produce styrene from glucose

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Between 1960 and 2006, estimated production ranged from a low of 1,740 million pounds in 1960 to a high of 11,897 million pounds in 2000. The US styrene industry is a diversified approximately $28-billion industry comprising hundreds of companies with thousands of facilities, according to the Styrene Information & Research Center (SIRC).

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Daimler joins multiple initiatives for a sustainable raw material supply chain; future focus on battery cell supply chain

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In addition to this, the Responsible Minerals Initiative provides companies with a wealth of tools and information sources for responsible procurement of so-called conflict materials. —Renata Jungo Brüngger, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG for Integrity and Legal Affairs.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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Meanwhile, feeding information about the harbor into the database proved arduous. To make this task easier, John Gaffney, one of Warnock’s group, spent a weekend writing a software routine that would generate the information about the objects from menus. So Warnock’s team decided to invent a language unrelated to any computer.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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From an official point of view, COP 15 is to be informed by the most recent report from the UNFCCC’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), published in 2007. ºC in 2050, as compared to 2000 temperatures. “ Internationally, we reject legally binding emissions.

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Tesla FSD’s prolonged release doesn’t make it a ‘fraud,’ company says

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After some background information on FSD, Tesla noted that each of the plaintiffs purchased a vehicle, and “all but one allegedly purchase the FSDC package.” Moreover, the hundreds-of-paragraph, narrative complaint fails to support a single cognizable legal theory. See Richardson, 2000 WL.”

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ITF: measures to decrease road freight CO2 emissions

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Moving goods by road consumes about 50% of all diesel produced; 80% of the global net increase in diesel use since 2000 comes from road freight. Antitrust legislation sometimes hinders horizontal collaboration and legal risk has already prevented some trials. Policy should support the sector in this effort.

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