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Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

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” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Source: IEA.

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Thermoelectric startup GMZ Energy secures $14M in Series C funding

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GMZ’s material, a nanostructured bismuth antimony telluride, was developed by researchers at Boston College and MIT. GMZ Energy is developing its first product for the $8 billion residential, commercial and industrial solar thermal water market.

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Researchers advance concept of “4-D” printing technology using shape memory polymer fibers

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The research could help provide a new approach to creating reversible or tunable 3D surfaces and solids in engineering such as the composite shells of complex shapes used in automobiles, aircraft and antennas. Tibbits and his team combined a strand of plastic with a layer made out of smart material that could self-assemble in water.

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Study finds climate-influencing cirrus clouds form around mineral dust and metallic aerosols; little evidence of black carbon

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An interdisciplinary team from MIT, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and elsewhere has identified the major particles upon which cirrus clouds form. Formation of cirrus clouds depends upon the availability of ice nuclei to begin condensation of atmospheric water vapor.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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He hopes to talk with Turkey's science minister and the TOGG [Turkish Automobile Joint Venture Group], a new company formed by the government. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. Rip currents are dangerous phenomena that can pull swimmers into deep water. The TOGG is working on designing electric vehicles. According to the.

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New Proposal for Discrete Road Systems for High-Speed Vehicles and Low-Speed Modes of Transportation Seeks to Enhance Sustainability Without Compromising Benefits of Motor Vehicle Use

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Since the LLM network is accessible to everyone and accommodates all forms of travel, from pedestrians to fully featured motor vehicles, it offers a complete and convenient new lifestyle network—one that is functionally equivalent to the current automobile and road system, but without any of the undesirable features. Mark Delucchi.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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That enabled him to be financially independent when he came to the United States to enroll in graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. MIT didn’t have many graduate students at the time,” Zadeh recalled, “so it was fairly easy to get in, even though the University of Teheran had no track record.”. “No