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New Report Concludes That Real Costs of Adapting to Climate Change Will Likely Be At Least 2-3X Greater Than Current Estimates

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Scientists led by a former co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are warning warn that the UN negotiations aimed at tackling climate change are based on substantial underestimates of what it will cost to adapt to its impacts. But previous estimates of adaptation costs have substantially misjudged the scale of funds needed.

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China-based study concludes using political incentives to fight pollution is costly and inefficient

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—co-author Guojun He, research director at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago in China (EPIC China) and a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. —co-author Shaoda Wang, a postdoctoral scholar at EPIC and incoming assistant professor at the University of Chicago.

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Rice University Study and Policy Paper Find US Biofuels Policies Flawed, Recommend Fundamental Overhaul

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Congress should order a cost-benefit analysis that compares the volume of renewable fuel being added to the American transportation fuel system to the cost per gallon to the American taxpayer to achieve this marginal addition of non-fossil-fuel-based supply.

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US DOE Offers Abound Solar $400M Conditional Commitment for Loan Guarantee

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has offered a conditional commitment to Abound Solar , a manufacturer of low-cost, cadmium telluride, thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, for a $400 million, seven-year loan guarantee to expand its solar module manufacturing capabilities. and begun commercial operations.

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EIA: US energy-related CO2 emissions in 2012 lowest since 1994; reflects drop in coal use

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With the exception of 2010, emissions have declined every year since 2007. To conduct the study, Pratson and his team assessed the cost of electricity generation at plants producing 95% of the nation’s coal-fired electricity and 70% of its natural gas-powered electricity. Duke study.

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Study concludes generating ethanol from lignocellulose possible, but large cost reductions still needed

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A study by researchers from the University of British Columbia and Queen’s University (Canada), has concluded that using lignocellulose materials for the production of ethanol is unlikely to be competitive with starch until 2020 at the earliest. However, cost reductions must occur across all components of the production process.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. MAKING PROSTHETIC LIMBS ACCESSIBLE.

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