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Los Alamos-led study finds how to improve natural gas production in shale; hydrocarbon transport within nanopores

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Partners include the New Mexico Consortium, University of Maryland, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research. Their open-access study is published in Nature’s new Communications Earth & Environment journal. The pores are miniscule—typically less than five nanometers—and poorly understood.

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New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

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In contrast, the LSP method not only saves energy but uses aluminum, a cheap and abundant metal. She and her colleagues, including scientists from the University of Maryland in College Park and DENSsolutions, in Delft, the Netherlands, reported their findings in Nature Materials.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part V)

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By the Eighties EDS was even larger, and didn’t come cheap. The company was owned by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland, which agreed to sell its aerospace branch to GM for $5.2 Proposed and implemented in 1967, Perot invented the business model which today is called outsourcing. Smith forked over $2.5 billion ($7.4B

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Spirit Airlines Is on Shaky Footing After Judge Blocks JetBlue Deal

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Kerry Tan, a professor at Loyola University Maryland who has studied airline fares, said that when Spirit offered service on a particular route, its competitors were forced to lower their prices. “In She said Spirit’s cheap flights and influence on other airlines’ prices gave Americans “an equal opportunity to travel.”

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Feature: The Genesis Experience

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Not all succeed as talk is cheap, actions are tough, and many don’t do so well following through. Feature: The Genesis Experience Son-Nim – “Honored Guest” Corporations are well-known for saying how much they care about and value their customers.

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CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

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The PJM Interconnection is a regional transmission organization (RTO) that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.

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UMD researchers create new architecture for solid-state Li metal batteries

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Researchers at the University of Maryland have designed a flexible lithium-ion conducting ceramic textile featuring fast lithium-ion conductors, good electrochemical stability, and scalable processing approaches to device integration for solid-state lithium metal batteries. Gong et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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