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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.

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

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Integrating ridesharing with transit in poorly serviced suburban neighborhoods could be an effective way to get people out of their cars and boost ridership, according to the findings of a new study by researchers at the University of Waterloo. The pilot demonstrated that integrating ridesharing with transit can work.

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Miniscule Sensing Suite is a Big Step Towards Robotic Gnats

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In the late 1980s, Rod Brooks and Anita Flynn published a paper in The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society with the amazing title of Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: A Robotic Invasion of the Solar System.

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Satellite Signal Jamming Reaches New Lows

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National Guard airman Ryan Teixeira and seen by the Washington Post. University research groups are also launching tiny, standardized cube satellites (CubeSats) into LEO for research and demonstration purposes. That may be because one of the temptations of LEO is the ability of relatively cheap new hardware to do smaller jobs.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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From researcher to entrepreneur Moore received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1950 from the University of California, Berkeley. also in chemistry, in 1954 from Caltech , he began his career as a researcher in the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. After earning his Ph.D.,

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Failed Local Paper Put Out Of Its Misery - By Creative Greenius!

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It’s not even cheap at twenty five cents an issue. Facts like this from his blog Climate Progress: The University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center — has become weary of having their data misreported by global warming deniers like Will. The Breeze is no longer worth paying for. Therefore, global sea ice levels are 1.34

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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.