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MIT/UC Davis professors challenge claims that ethanol production decreased gasoline prices in 2010 and 2011

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Those estimates are based on a series of papers by University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University economists Xiaodong Du and Dermot Hayes, who used monthly regional data to estimate the relationship between ethanol production and the pro?t and statistically insignificant. in 2010 and 2011, respectively. The paper by Prof.

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Quantum Randomness Now Boosts Everyday Security

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He says they are in discussions with a number of major cloud-providers and leading smartphone makers and he thinks the use of quantum randomness could soon be standard practice. As a result, most encryption today relies on pseudo-random number generators, which use algorithms to produce numbers with statistical properties close to random.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

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Vital Statistics Name: Asad M. Madni Current job: Distinguished adjunct professor, University of California, Los Angeles ; retired president, CEO, and CTO, BEI Technologies Date of birth: 8 September 1947 Birthplace: Mumbai, India Family: Wife (Taj), son (Jamal) Education: 1968 graduate, RCA Institutes ; B.S., 1969, and M.S.,

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Study finds wide range in GHG intensities and production costs of cellulosic ethanol from corn stover, switchgrass and miscanthus

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The corresponding range for GHG savings with corn stover was 57% to 95% and marginally below the threshold of at least 60% for biofuels classified as cellulosic biofuels under the Renewable Fuels Standard. Production cost of ethanol is annualized over the simulation period. Credit: ACS, Dwivedi et al. Click to enlarge.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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In terms of travel time, the strike produced a net benefit to the system because the one-off time costs of the strike were less than the enduring benefits for this minority of commuters. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Most organizations delete data after a certain period.

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U-M study: Induced driving miles could overwhelm potential energy-saving benefits of connected, self-driving cars

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The benefits of connected, self-driving cars (CAVs) will likely induce vehicle owners to drive more, and those extra miles could partially or completely offset the potential energy-saving benefits that automation may provide, according to a new University of Michigan study. —Taiebat et al. 2019.03.174.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. In perhaps the most sobering statistic shared at the 2009 SAE conference, Prof Thrun’s investigations have led him to believe that 1-1.2 Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica. 27.5 / 22.2.

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