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Study on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities Highlights Importance of Geophysical and Technical Factors

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The cities/metro areas studied were: Los Angeles County; Greater Toronto; Geneva Canton; Greater Prague; Cape Town; Denver City and County; New York City; Greater London; Barcelona; and Bangkok. London has the highest emissions for air transportation at 3.12 Miroslav Havránek, Charles University Environment Center.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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We would figure out things like: Do we need more lines between Denver and Chicago?” Ultimately, a government laboratory in Norway, the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment , and a laboratory at University College London came on board—enough to get the satellite network up and running.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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Ad Spiers , lecturer in robotics and machine learning at Imperial College London, it was late at night in his office, but he was still animated about robotic hands—the current focus of his research. Left: John Prieto/The Denver Post/Getty Images; Right: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Images. When I first spoke with.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp. February 2007 (Washington, DC) Jackson EMC electricity cooperative by EnergyCS, February 2007 (Jefferson, GA), contact ashedd@jacksonemc.com GreenTomato Cars by Amberjac/EnergyCS, February 2007 (London, UK), contact simon@amberjac-projects.co.uk Jim Tech Ltd.

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