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Opinion: Stop Blaming OPEC For Low Prices

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Steven Kopits, President of Princeton Energy Advisors, laid out the concept very nicely in a Platts article earlier this year, in which he says the expression “call on OPEC” should be scrapped. Iraq is not subject to the quota restrictions, and so it is pulling out all the stops to increase output.

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Ethanol Producers Group Calls for Congress to Repeal International Indirect Land Use Provision in RFS2

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This is the most bizarre concept I have ever seen. That’s why we need Congress to act today to pass legislation either repealing this flawed concept, or adopting the provision recently passed by the House of Representatives to require a thorough review by the National Academy of Science [sic].

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How the U.S. Army Is Turning Robots Into Team Players

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Roy, who has worked on abstract reasoning for ground robots as part of the RCTA, emphasizes that deep learning is a useful technology when applied to problems with clear functional relationships, but when you start looking at abstract concepts, it's not clear whether deep learning is a viable approach.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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military took hold of the concept, and in its hands, those simple drones morphed into Predators and Reapers , bomber-size machines that flew missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and each cost millions of dollars (if not tens of millions). But a technologically powerful country needn’t count the cost; the United States certainly didn’t.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. Apple coming from the computer industry to deliver iTunes and the iPod,&# he added. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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