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SEI study outlines risks to global low-carbon technology push

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The basis for the study is the concept of the “technological innovation system” (TIS) concept. The TIS concept also encompasses other factors, such as how society’s overall vision for a technology guides its development (the “direction of search”), and the ways in which societies come to accept a technology or not (legitimacy).

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Overcoming Systemic Racism Through System Engineering

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Several states have enacted laws that ban, or would appear to ban, discussing the concept in public schools and colleges, and even private workplaces. When she graduated in 2005, the nonprofit hired her to open the Washington location. Boyea-Robinson still finds resistance to financing equity among bank loan officers.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. This concept is often called “additionality.” Perspective by Brian J. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc.

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Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine Turns 200

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Babbage set to work on the concept for a Difference Engine, a machine that would use a clockwork mechanism to solve polynomial equations. The government saw the value in a machine that could calculate the many numerical tables used for navigation, construction, finance, and engineering, thereby reducing human labor (and error).

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Study recommends $10B/year US federal investment in energy RD&D and a substantial price on carbon emissions; leveraging the national labs and encouraging the private sector for a clean energy future

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The study— Transforming US Energy Innovation —also found that it is very unlikely that the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 83% below 2005 levels by 2050 can be met without both the increased ERD3 investments and policies that price carbon emissions. —Policy Brief.

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Cadillac’s ambitious move to an all-electric luxury brand by 2030

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Among cutting-edge automotive buyers—the glitterati of Los Angeles, the tech millionaires of Silicon Valley, the finance titans of Wall Street—only one Cadillac is widely recognized. In July, GM unveiled the Celestiq concept to the world—and confirmed very low-volume production to start in model year 2025.