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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

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Comparison of proposed Keystone XL route to previously proposed project segment. Aside from the potential construction and spill impacts of the pipeline, the scope of the climate change impacts have become the most contentious and politicized issue surrounding the pipeline. Source: Draft SEIS. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Stress Levels Revealed in Micro-Beads of Sweat

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Sometimes climatic conditions don't lend themselves to creating enough sweat to analyze. The technology, developed by Dallas-based EnLiSense LLC and the University of Texas at Dallas , is promising enough that the U.S. But translating raw perspiration into "sweat equity" in real time in everyday life is not an easy task.

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Argonne analysis shows greenhouse gas emissions similar for shale, conventional oil

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The research, conducted by Argonne researchers in collaboration with Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, analyzed the Eagle Ford shale formation in Texas and the Bakken play mainly in North Dakota.

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First drive: Volkswagen 2015 Golf SportWagen

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VW of America is hosting a media drive in a rainy Austin, Texas this week to introduce the new model. Comparison of city and highway fuel economy ratings for select MY2015 station wagons, using data from the fueleconomy.gov website. An automatic transmission is available as an $1,100 option. Equipped with the new EA288 2.0L

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Colorado State University Forecasters Predict Above-Average 2010 Hurricane Season

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By comparison, 2009 witnessed tropical cyclone activity that was about 70% of the average season. The site provides US landfall probabilities for 11 regions and 205 individual counties along the US coastline from Brownsville, Texas, to Eastport, Maine.

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GWU team demonstrates one-pot process for optimized synthesis of controlled CNTs from CO2; coupling cement and C2CNT

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In comparison, the highest grade industrial carbon nanotubes made from carbon dioxide are valued at $1000 fold higher than such fuels, and provide substantial economic incentive to transform and eliminate the carbon dioxide emissions from cement plants. —Licht (2017). 2017.02.005.

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PNNL team develops higher-strength, lower-cost titanium alloy aimed at improving vehicle fuel economy and reducing CO2 emissions

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b) Comparison of tensile strength and strain to failure (elongation) of Ti-185 alloy with other commercially available Titanium alloys. a) Ultimate tensile and yield strength of Ti-185 for three STA conditions. (b) The graph in (b) is plotted using CES Selector software, Granta Design, Cambridge, UK. Click to enlarge.