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Climate Change is NSF Engineering Alliance’s Top Research Priority

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The report identifies research in creating sensing, measuring, and AI models to analyze the flow of water to ensure its availability during droughts and other disruptive events caused or worsened by climate change. Water, ecosystem, and geoengineering assessments.

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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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Project teams will each design a system model that dynamically simulates an urban transportation network and its energy use. To construct the system model, project teams will use data that can be measured and obtained from currently available sources. The project will use currently available transportation data from an urban U.S.

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Taking another look at methanol as an alternative transportation fuel for the US

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A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. However, while significant investment would need to be made for large-scale methanol deployment in the transportation sector, there is no technical hurdle both in terms of vehicle application and of distribution infrastructure, they noted.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. A Q&A with Luca Guala on the Masdar PRT is available here. Cervero, Transit-Oriented Corridors, sidebar in The Transportation/Land Use Connection, T. Bandivadekar, A.,

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