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DOE launches wave energy competition

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) opened the registration period for the new Wave Energy Prize competition that aims to double the state-of-the-art performance of wave energy conversion (WEC) devices over the next two years. The Wave Energy Prize provides an opportunity for participants to: Win a monetary prize.

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DOE awarding $22 million for algal fuel and biomass feedstock supply chain projects

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US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced more than $22 million in new investments to help develop cost-competitive algae fuels and streamline the biomass feedstock supply chain for advanced biofuels. Moniz was speaking at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Biomass 2013 conference. Nearly $16.5

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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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he left the lab to study applied mathematics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He has won many awards at the conference for his papers. That conference is really a homecoming for the high-performance computing community,” he says, “and IEEE plays a major role.”.

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Alon USA receives go ahead for Bakersfield, CA rail terminal and refinery project; Bakken light crude

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Alon expects to provide information on the cost of constructing the new rail facility and the expected crude-by-rail volumes at the time of its third quarter 2014 conference call. Alon is the largest 7-Eleven licensee in the United States and operates approximately 300 convenience stores in Texas and New Mexico.

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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

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In 2006 Dartmouth convened a conference, AI@50 , to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the AI gathering and to discuss AI’s present and future. Although Marvin was working non-stop for Shannon, Shannon insisted he and Gloria take a honeymoon in New Mexico.

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EPA Grants California Vehicle GHG Regulations Waiver

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Using the projected California fleet mix, ARB calculates the average emissions form the MY2016 new vehicle fleet will be approximately 243 g/mi (or about 36.6 On a conference call on Tuesday, EPA officials said they expected to release the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the vehicle greenhouse gas regulations later this year.

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US study of miners links heavy exposure to diesel exhaust to increased risk of lung cancer death; researchers suggest implications for urban areas with high exhaust concentrations

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Because such workers had at least a 50% increased lung cancer risk, our results suggest that the high air concentrations of elemental carbon reported in some urban areas may confer increased risk of lung cancer.

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