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Oregon transit district buying 11 New Flyer electric buses and 7 ABB depot chargers

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With the addition of Xcelsior CHARGE buses to its fleet, LTD joins other West Coast cities leading the transition to zero-emission mobility with New Flyer, including Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Coachella Valley, Oakland, San Francisco, Orange County, and Victor Valley.

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Renewable Energy Group to acquire Imperium Renewables

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Seattle-based Imperium Renewables began developing proprietary technology and processes in the production of biodiesel in 2004. Based in Ames, Iowa, REG is the leading North American producer and marketer of biomass-based diesel, with 10 active biorefineries across the US and a nationwide production, distribution and logistics system.

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Toyota reveals all you need to know about fuel cell cars

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DaimlerChrysler, for example, predicted the industry would be selling 100,000 fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) by 2004. In 2007 GM spokesman Scott Fosgard told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that by 2012 there will be about 10,000 hydrogen vehicles on the market from a variety of companies. I don't think so.

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New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning

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ICESat measurements of winter multi-year ice cover in the Arctic Ocean between 2004 and 2008, along with the corresponding downward trend in overall winter sea ice volume, and switch in dominant ice type from multi-year ice to first-year ice. Credit: Ron Kwok, NASA/JPL. Click to enlarge. These are dramatic changes.

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Portable Life-Support Device Provides Critical Care in Conflict and Disaster Zones

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In 2004, together with other physicians and engineers, he created a company to develop solutions based on his innovations. Operators based in Seattle successfully controlled remotely a device based in Toronto. Then, based on the results, he developed new, highly efficient methods of delivering oxygen to patients.

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Despite a Slight Recovery in 2009, Arctic Sea Ice Remains on Downward Trend

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Earlier this summer, NASA researcher Ron Kwok and colleagues from the University of Washington in Seattle published satellite data showing that ice thickness declined by 2.2 feet between 2004 and 2008. Measurements of sea ice thickness by satellites are used to determine the age of the ice.

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The Algorithm that Mapped Omicron Shows a Path Forward

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Only a select few experts are capable of analyzing this esoteric data, and until 2004, they did it mostly in their heads. a splashy paper in the journal Science in July 2004. Seattle would land in one corner, New York in another corner, Dallas would fall in between those two and lower down, and so on.

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