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NOx emissions exceeded limits in 12 European countries in 2010

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The accompanying report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) confirms an initial assessment published earlier this year, showing 12 EU Member States exceeded limits under the National Emissions Ceilings (NEC) Directive in 2010. State of the environment report No 6/2012. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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The importance of considering non-exhaust traffic emissions; the role of EVs

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Further, a 2013 review by Denier van der Gon et al. The traffic/exhaust component consisted predominantly of externally mixed soot particles and soot internally mixed with secondary particles. As reported earlier here ( earlier post ) a recent literature review by a team from the University of Edinburgh (Timmers et al.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change. “We The >2 Degree Target. C, is warranted.”.

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Joint IEA-NEA report details plunge in costs of renewable electricity; nuclear competitive with other baseload power sources

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No single technology proves the cheapest form of electricity generation under all circumstances: many factors determine the final cost of any investment, principally local influences such as market structure, policy environment and resource endowments. Click to enlarge.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd. Several thousand computers had been shipped before the assembly-line workers’ “revision” was noticed; by then, some reviewers were lambasting the C-64 for its “garish” colors. ?Quality Another flaw is the computer’s crude internal software.

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