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A New Energy-Efficient Hydrogel Pulls Water From Air

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Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. The UT Austin technique is aimed at the latter. But Yu and his colleagues at UT Austin developed theirs with arid atmospheres in mind.

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Baker Institute-led group to develop nationwide protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon

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Robin Rather, CEO of Austin-based Collective Strength, is the group’s facilitator. Most accepted carbon transactions in the world today occur based on standards that originated from the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. —Jim Blackburn.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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New Two-Cylinder Prototype Demonstration and Concept Design of a Next Generation Class 3-6 Opposed Piston Engine. Developing an Energy-Conscious Traffic Signal Control System for Optimized Fuel Consumption in Connect Vehicle Environments. AOI 13: Alternative Fuel Proof-of-Concept in New Communities and Fleets. Achates Power.

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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While most of the original concepts for cloud computing came from the academic research community, as clouds grew in popularity, industry drove much of the design of their architecture. In recent years, cloud computing has become the dominant method of providing computing infrastructure for Internet services.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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No doubt professor Zadeh’s enthusiasm for fuzziness has been reinforced by the prevailing political climate in the United States—one of unprecedented permissiveness,” said R. It was a comfortable, undemanding environment; I was not challenged internally. Austin, Texas. Another berated the theory’s scientific laxity. “No

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DOE awards $34M to 19 projects to advance clean hydrogen

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In addition to helping the nation meet ambitious carbon-neutral goals, the development and implementation of the proposed technology can help reduce the cost of and emissions from hydrogen production to mitigate the effects of climate change while creating new jobs and revitalizing our economy.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. While utilities such as E.ON

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