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Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons

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As a comparison, a typical terrestrial forest stores about 30,000 metric tons per square kilometer, most of which is in the form of wood. —Fourqurean et al. The results demonstrate that coastal seagrass beds store up to 83,000 metric tons of carbon per square kilometer, mostly in the soils beneath them.

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EU investing >€3M in research into ultra-efficient aero engines; ULTIMATE project

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Nevertheless, the ULTIMATE team believes it is worth exploring solutions that have the potential to recover large parts of the core exhaust losses through a dedicated technology. Considerable research and development effort is being spent to introduce advanced geared and open rotor propulsors promising to recover a large part of these losses.

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Frost Sullivan Projects That About 80% of European Vehicle Sales Will Be in the 150 g/km CO2 Band by 2015; EVs as a Strategy of Premium Automakers

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The countries covered in this research service are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. European automakers are striving to comply with EU CO 2 norms (average fleet emissions less than 130 g/km by 2015) to avoid penalties. (As

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JATO Dynamics: European new car registrations buoyed by SUVs during February 2016

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There were only four markets where registrations fell during the month: Greece (-32%), Netherlands (-17%), Portugal (-3%) and Switzerland (-1%). This can in part be explained by a fall in sales in France (-19%) and the UK (-19%), though this was offset by big increases in Italy (+37%) and Germany (+6%). YTD volume grew by 9.8%

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Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

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Clients are often already aware of the fact that IEC 60287 overestimates cable losses, but results visualization and comparison to actual measurements can build confidence in project stakeholders. The Hellenic Cables team used FEM to analyze soil resistivity for two sites: one in northern Germany and one in southern Greece. Küchler, J.

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