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NOAA, partners find about 98% decline in VOCs concentrations in LA Basin over last 50 years despite 3x increase in use of gasoline and diesel

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A scatter plot of CO, as a tracer for pollution, versus CO 2 , as a tracer for the amount of combustion, for 2002 and 2010. Even though the CO 2 enhancements over background were comparable in the two years, about 25 ppm in 2002 and 35 ppm in 2010, the ?CO/?CO2 CO2 ratio for this flight track segment decreased from 24.5 Warneke, C.,

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10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

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Repeated scans were done for nearly all participants between 2002 and 2005; for a subset of participants between 2005 and 2007; and for half of all participants between 2010 and 2012. The clinics were in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, St. Paul and Winston-Salem. Kaufman, Joel D et al.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Barroso was born in Brazil and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1989 in electrical engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. He received the 2002 U.S.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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After retiring from IBM in 2002, Williams volunteered at the Computer History Museum , in Mountain View, Calif. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles.

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Toyota opens CES with strong affirmation of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; “staggering” rate of cost reduction; FCV on sale in US in 2015

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Since 2002, Toyota has been testing and developing a series of prototypes in North America. Toyota estimates a 95% cost reduction in the powertrain and fuel tanks of the vehicle it will launch in 2015, compared to what it cost to build the original prototype in 2002. We’re doing a good job with both and we will launch in 2015.

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

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In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. General Motors’ Impact debuted at the 1990 Los Angeles Auto Show.

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Stanford Professor Urges EPA to Include Black Carbon in Endangerment Finding

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Jacobson first showed in 2000 that black carbon was the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide in terms of radiative forcing and, in 2002, that its control was the most effective method of slowing warming. Earlier post.). C increased Arctic warming from 1890 to 2007. Earlier post.).

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