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Study finds that bioenergy crops could have a significant impact on the hydrologic cycle of a region

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A new study led by Praveen Kumar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, details the links between the hydrologic cycle and large-scale land conversion for the cultivation of bioenergy crops, both now and as growing conditions change in the future. —Phong et al. —Praveen Kumar.

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Alberta to Host Underground Coal Gasification Demo; Update on Linc Chinchilla UCG In Australia

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In 2007, BP and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have signed a technical agreement to work cooperatively on the development of UCG technology for the in-situ conversion of coal deposits into fuels and other products. Earlier post.). The operation is air-blown and produces gas at a pressure of approximately 10 atmospheres.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.” There was a steep trail that went up the side of a fjord, water coming down the opposite side. 1962 and Ph.D. If you were engineering the Bell System,” he says, “you weren’t trying to figure out who in San Francisco is going to say what to whom in New York.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By 1968 student hostility to the government over the Vietnam War was growing and life for researchers on campus who, like Hoff, relied on government funding was looking as if it might get uncomfortable. Hoff and his group developed a multiplexed approach to conversion in which a single converter is shared by the transmit and receive channels.

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