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Report finds US automakers remain profitable under future CAFE standards even with fuel price fluctuation

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The brief is a summary for investors and policy analysts of a larger study that will be available from Ceres in August 2016. When gas is very cheap, people tend to buy bigger, more profitable trucks. But even if gas prices tank, falling 25% below US Energy Information Administration projections to an unlikely $1.80

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10 Graphs That Sum Up the State of AI in 2023

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Large language models don’t come cheap While the power of large language models, like ChatGPT , has increased dramatically, the price of training such models has increased dramatically as well. s In 2021 (that’s the latest numbers available), 65.4 Industry, not academia, is drawing new AI Ph.D.’s percent of all AI Ph.D.’s

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Forecast: Algae-Based Biofuels Production to Reach 61M Gallons per Year by 2020

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Both regions will benefit from rapidly expanding biofuels markets, ample land and water resources, and cheap labor, Pike suggests. A commitment to cellulosic ethanol and other advanced biofuels options will also divert much-needed capital away from early algae projects, further hampering widespread commercialization over the next decade.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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Cheap gas prices and a strong economy are creating increased goods movement and prompting Californians to drive more. In addition, the housing affordability and availability crisis is forcing people to live increasingly farther away from work, driving up total vehicle miles traveled in the state by 2.7 below their 2006 levels.

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Univ. Houston, Caltech team develops new earth-abundant, cost-effective catalyst for water-splitting

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In an open-access paper in the journal Nature Communications, the team said that their advance provides a different pathway to design cheap, efficient and sizable hydrogen-evolving electrode by simultaneously tuning the number of catalytic edge sites, porosity, heteroatom doping and electrical conductivity. b,d) Scale bar, 50 μm. (c,e)

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Feature: Going Green on Car Care, Repair and Insurance

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You may be wondering if electric and hybrid cars are cheap to insure. We’ll start with the greenest car available, the electric vehicle (EV). They have been carbon-neutral since 2016. Allstate has one of the most significant discounts available for electric vehicles. In between, there are hybrids and smart cars.

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Stanford, SLAC team cages silicon microparticles in graphene for stable, high-energy anode for Li-ion batteries

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This new method allows us to use much larger silicon particles that are one to three microns, or millionths of a meter, in diameter, which are cheap and widely available. Finally they etched the nickel away, leaving just enough space within the graphene cage for the silicon particle to expand. 2015.29.

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