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One of our 2006 Prius’ pack needed servicing and it only cost a few hundred dollars to fix 7 modules and change the bus bars connecting the modules by a hybrid shop. Some models (2006 models for some reason) can have timing chain issues irrelevant of their mileage. One of our 2006s’ needed it changed but this fault is not usual.

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JULY 16, 2009

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new method for capturing significantly more heat from low-temperature geothermal resources. The goal of the project is to enable power generation from low-temperature geothermal resources at an economical cost. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

miles) below the water’s surface, is located in the Tobago Field 200 miles southwest of Houston in the ultra-deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. Moored in about 8,000 feet of water, the Perdido regional DVA (direct vertical access) spar is the deepest spar production facility in the world. The well, at 9,627 feet (2,934 meters, 1.82

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MARCH 8, 2011

” The authors used 78 months (October, 2003–March, 2010) of data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellite mission to estimate water storage changes in California’s Sacramento and San Joaquin River Basins. They found that the basins are losing water at a rate of 31.0 ± 2.7 km 3 in volume. Famiglietti, J.

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JULY 10, 2017

According to the complaint, from in or about 2006 until in or about November 2015, Pamio led a team of engineers responsible for designing emissions control systems to meet emissions standards, including for nitrogen oxides (NO x ), for diesel vehicles in the US. Beginning in or about 2006, Audi was designing the new 3.0

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MARCH 31, 2013

Approximately 100 ExxonMobil employees are responding to the incident in addition to federal, state, and local resources. Approximately 4,500 barrels of oil and water (189,000 gallons US) have been recovered. Principal producers of Wabasca include Cenovus Energy and Canadian Natural Resources. wt% sulfur content (i.e.,

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DECEMBER 4, 2011

An international team of scientists who monitor the rapid changes in the Earth’s northern polar region say that the Arctic is entering a new state, one with warmer air and water temperatures, less summer sea ice and snow cover, and a changed ocean chemistry. With a greener and warmer Arctic, more development is likely.

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JULY 31, 2019

Established in 2006, Circa Group converts waste biomass into bio-based chemicals with its proprietary Furacell process at its prototype plant in Tasmania—a joint venture with Norske Skog. The Furacell process takes lignocellulosic material and uses a combination of catalysts and heat to form LGE, biochar and water. Sherwood, J.,

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MAY 3, 2013

Higher-temperature PEM fuel cells are of interest due to a number of performance and cost advantages, including higher power efficiency; elimination of the cooling device and water management system; reduction of CO poisoning of the platinum (Pt) and/or enabling the use of a non-precious metal catalyst. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Big Foot will be Chevron’s sixth operated facility in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and located approximately 225 miles (360 km) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, in water depths of 5,200 feet (1,600 m). First oil is anticipated in 2014.

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MAY 28, 2009

From 2004 to 2006, Schuur and his team used radiocarbon dating, a technique typically used to determine the age of artifacts, to track the movement of old organic carbon accumulated within the soils and permafrost at an Alaskan site. Permafrost. Major northeastern cities are directly in the path of the greatest rise.

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JULY 17, 2014

million in research grants are awarded under a joint DOE-USDA program that began in 2006 focused on fundamental investigations of biomass genomics, with the aim of harnessing nonfood plant biomass for the production of fuels such as ethanol or renewable chemical feedstocks. DOE’s Office of Science will provide $10.6 Description. 1,230,600.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Recent warm summers further accelerated the mass loss to 273 Gt per year (1 Gt is the mass of 1 cubic kilometer of water), in the period 2006-2008, which represents 0.75 The Greenland ice sheet contains enough water to cause a global sea level rise of seven metres. mm of global sea level rise per year.

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JANUARY 1, 2014

This is BP’s third discovery in recent years in the emerging Paleogene trend in the Gulf of Mexico, following Kaskida in 2006 and Tiber in 2009. The Gila discovery was made by an exploration well on Keathley Canyon Block 93, about 300 miles (483 miles) southwest of New Orleans, in approximately 4,900 feet (1,494 meters) of water.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Its research and monitoring program covers all shallow-water and deep-water coral reef ecosystems under the jurisdiction of the United States and is intended to inform resource managers, scientists, policymakers and the public. This research was supported by the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program.

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JUNE 23, 2013

Enbridge first responders with equipment are on-site at the Line 37 spill and have installed booms which has contained product at the site and the local water bodies. There have been no reports of harm to wildlife at this point.

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

BP and DuPont have been working together since 2003; in 2006, they created a partnership to develop, produce and market a next generation of biofuels, with the first planned commercialization being biobutanol. There are four isomeric structures for butanol: 1-butanol (or n-butanol); iso-butanol; 2-butanol (or sec-butanol); and tert-butanol.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

The cultivation of this biomass does not require arable land, fresh water or fertiliser, circumventing adverse impacts on food supplies and resource availability. Large-scale cultivation of brown macroalgae is already being practiced in several countries, yielding over 70 million metric tons per year in 2006.

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

The AP1000 is a 1,100 megawatt electric pressurized-water reactor that includes passive safety features that would cool down the reactor after an accident without the need for human intervention. additional waste-water monitor tanks. Westinghouse submitted an application to amend the AP1000 on 27 May 2007. turbine manufacturer change.

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JUNE 13, 2009

But excess nitrogen is emitted from soils, seeps into groundwater and runs off into surface waters. Nitrogen runoff in bays and coastal areas, where it makes algae numbers spike then crash, drawing oxygen from the water and leading to dead zones—areas that cannot support finfish, shellfish or most other aquatic life. Tom Tomich.

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MAY 16, 2011

Data collected during a major 2010 state-federal atmospheric research project show that the first-in-the-nation regulation requiring ocean-going vessels to use clean fuel when near the California coast has been extremely effective in reducing sulfur dioxide pollution from ships, according to the California Air Resources Board (ARB).

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APRIL 17, 2010

Areas of consideration include breakthroughs in climate change, water resource management, energy distribution & storage, clean energy, energy efficiency/use. Water Resource Management : watershed, sewage, conservation, desalination. In 2006 there were more than nine million new cases of TB worldwide.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Maritime traffic on the world’s oceans has increased four-fold over the past 20 years, likely causing more water, air and noise pollution on the open seas, according to a new study quantifying global ship traffic. Ships powered by fossil fuels dump oil, fuel and waste into the water and pump exhaust into the air. Resources.

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JUNE 27, 2012

It will probably trigger worldwide emulation over the next decades that might bear surprising results—given the fact that most shale/tight oil resources in the world are still unknown and untapped.” The Bakken formation’s output has grown from a few barrels in 2006 to 530,000 a day in December 2011. —Maugeri 2012.

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

Professor Stuart James in Queen’s School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering patented a novel technique for the synthesis of MOFs without using any solvents, even water, and on greatly reduced timescales, by making use of mechanochemistry. James (2006) Solvent-free synthesis of a microporous metal–organic framework.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The China Energy Group of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) recently released the eighth edition of the China Energy Databook —the most comprehensive publicly available resource known to exist covering China’s energy and environmental statistics. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 6, 2009

PNNL has tested the gasifier with terrestrial plants, kelp and water hyacinths. After condensation, the water enriched with dissolved carbon dioxide is recycled to the growth ponds to accelerate growth of the next generation of biomass while reducing emissions to nearly zero. Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining 2, (3,):254-265.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Data describing emissions to air compiled from two official sources result in simulated concentrations in air, soil, water, and foliage that tend to fall close to or below the minimum measured concentrations of phenanthrene [PHE], pyrene [PYR], and benzo(a)pyrene [BaP] in the environment. Accounting for evaporative emissions (e.g.,

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

reduction from the potential commercialization are available through the terms of the first round of shale leasing in 2006 and 2007. In 2006 and 2007, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued six RD&D oil shale leases on lands in Colorado and Utah for the purpose of developing new oil shale recovery technologies. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 21, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released the proposed scoping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. The California Air Resources Board is slated to hold workshops in February and hear an update at the 16 February Board meeting. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

Secondary recovery techniques generally injecting water or gas to displace oil and drive it to a production wellbore, resulting in the recovery of 20 to 40% of the original oil in place. Undeveloped domestic oil resources still in the ground (in-place) total and estimated 1,124 billion barrels. The CMU Study. Jaramillo et al.

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MARCH 24, 2010

A 2006 study by Wahr and Velicogna using the GRACE satellite indicated that Greenland lost roughly 684 cubic kilometers (164 cubic miles) of ice from April 2004 to April 2006—more than the volume of water in Lake Erie. Air temperatures over the Greenland ice sheet have increased by about 2.2 °C Shfaqat Abbas Khan.

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JUNE 24, 2009

Announced in November 2006, as part of IBM’s investment in 10 new businesses generated by InnovationJam, Big Green Innovations has concentrated its efforts on water management, alternative energy and carbon management. 2006) Rechargeable Li 2 O 2 Electrode for Lithium Batteries. Almaden Institute. Takeshi Ogasawara et al.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

The growth in hydrous ethanol, which uses a blend of 94-95% ethanol to 5-6% water, rapidly increased during the 1980s, with consumption peaking in 1989. water content in it and Gasoline C, or E25, which is a mixture of 75% Gasoline A and 25% in volume of anhydrous ethanol (AEAC) with a maximum of 0.4%

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FEBRUARY 28, 2009

When compared to recent estimates from all other sources, melt water from glaciers must be considered as a particularly important fraction of the total sea-level rise expected this century. The preceding analysis derives the changes in sea level to which we are committed by climate as it existed in 2006. Bahr et al. Dyurgerov, and M.

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Tg CO 2 eq), after having increased by 43% from 1990 through 2006. The figure includes the direct effects and those indirect effects due to the production of tropospheric ozone and stratospheric water vapor.) Methane is more than 20 times as effective as CO 2 at trapping heat in the atmosphere—i.e.,

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JULY 18, 2009

Over the following year or two, the La Niña-like pattern triggered by the solar maximum tends to evolve into an El Niño-like pattern, as slow-moving currents replace the cool water over the eastern tropical Pacific with warmer-than-usual water. That small amount of extra heat leads to more evaporation, producing extra water vapor.

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