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Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs

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The study was led by University of Delaware’s James Corbett, and included an international team of researchers from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York and Energy and Environmental Research Associates. These costs will be borne by consumers in the prices of goods they buy.

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European Commission approves up to €5.4B of public support for IPCEI Hy2Tech; 41 hydrogen projects

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The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Tech” was jointly prepared and notified by fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. The Member States will provide up to €5.4 billion in public funding, which is expected to unlock additional €8.8

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MIT Looks Ahead to Hydrogen’s Aviation Future

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A paper co-authored by Hansman and several MIT students—and presented this summer at the IEEE International Conference on Future Energy Solutions at the University of Vaasa in Finland— considered the case of supplying enough liquid hydrogen for 100 airports worldwide, each with long-haul flights.

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Europe Gets an Exascale Supercomputer

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The European Union–backed high-performance computing arm, EuroHPC JU , is underwriting half the cost of the new exascale machine. JUPITER will rely on GPU-based accelerators alongside a universal cluster module, which will contain CPUs. We will resolve the world much better,” he says. LUMI is currently ranked third in the world. “The

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer.

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Neste Oil and St1 to Collaborate in VTTs TransEco Development Program; Focus on Bio-ethanol and Bio-components for Gasoline

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Neste Oil and St1 have begun working together on a fuel project as part of the TransEco development program coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The oil industry has proposed increasing the biocomponent content of traffic fuels in Finland on a phased basis to 10% by 2015.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

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In the United States, the common perception is that heat pumps are only suitable for comparatively warm climates. For example, Trane , a leading manufacturer of heating and cooling equipment, says on its website “that heat pumps are best for moderate climates.” Carrier , another prominent U.S. Carrier , another prominent U.S.

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