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ICCT Study Finds Commercial Aviation Efficiency Improvements Have Stagnated Over Last Two Decades; Need for Comprehensive CO2 Standards for Aviation

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During the 1990s however, efficiency gains dropped to less than one percent annually. However, fuel costs rose dramatically from about 10% of operating expenses in 2004 to peak at more than one-third in 2008. Tags: Aviation Fuel Efficiency. Such a development would be consistent with Peeter et al.’s

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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However, the drop in oil prices throughout the 1980s and 1990s made it uneconomic for the Brazilian government to continue its ethanol program. Both production and consumption of ethanol were basically flat for much of the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Consumption of anhydrous ethanol has grown steadily since the 1990s, peaking in 2003.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. Here, Steve Jobs introduced the Apple II, with a price tag of US $1,298 (about $5,800 today), while rival Commodore unveiled its PET. By the early 1990s, that investment had boosted the firm's worth to $27 billion.

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

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The authors argued that the IPCC’s reference scenarios, which had been developed in the early 1990s as potential baselines which do not take emissions reductions into account, were no longer accurate. Tags: Climate Change Policy. April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr.,

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Tags: evdriven.

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