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Univ of Washington team working to make poplar coppice viable cheap, high-volume biofuel feedstock

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A University of Washington team is trying to make poplar an economically viable biofuel feedstock by testing the production of younger poplar trees that could be harvested more frequently—after only two or three years—instead of the usual 10- to 20-year cycle. Chang Dou/University of Washington. Click to enlarge.

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UWaterloo: ridesharing links could boost transit use in the suburbs; gaming the system

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The researchers are scheduled to present a paper on their work—“Spatial characteristics of transit-integrated ridesourcing trips and their competitiveness with transit and walking alternatives,”—at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in Washington this week.

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Governor George Pataki Calls for 40% Penetration of Electric Drive Vehicles in US by End of Decade

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In a talk at the opening plenary of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) conference in Washington, DC, former New York Governor George Pataki called for a 40% market penetration of electric drive vehicles in the US by the end of the decade. Gasoline is too cheap. The challenge is demand creation. —Mary Ann Wright.

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Cash for Volts?

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The group issued a lengthy report and a 30-second television commercial touting its plan, and its members outlined it at a presentation in Washington, D.C. All stressed that plug-in technology already exists and just needs a push on the financial front from Congress.&#. WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Move over, cash for clunkers.

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Lockheed Martin pursuing compact nuclear fusion reactor concept

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In a comment on the online story in Aviation Week , Dr. Tom Jarboe from the University of Washington (which is developing its own version of a fusion reactor and will present its results on Friday at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Fusion Energy Conference in St.

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University of Washington team develops new robust approach to solving battery models

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A team at the University of Washington (Seattle) led by Dr. Venkat Subramanian has developed an approach that helps solve battery models without knowing the exact initial conditions and without having to use a Newton Raphson iteration (a method for finding successively better approximations of a real-valued function) or a nonlinear solver.

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WSU, PNNL researchers develop viable sodium battery

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A paper on their work is published in the journal, ACS Energy Letters. Although O3-layered metal oxides are promising cathode materials for high-energy Na-ion batteries, they suffer from fast capacity fade. The WSU-PNNL team developed a high-performance O3-NaNi 0.68

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