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NASA’s New Earth Space Mission maps methane ‘super-emitters’

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Super-emitters are facilities, equipment, and other infrastructure, typically in the fossil-fuel, waste, or agriculture sectors, that emit methane at high rates. The team also identified a methane plume south of Tehran, Iran, at least 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) long, from a major waste-processing complex.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. But instead of taking the comfortable route—becoming a professor in Iran—he emigrated to the United States. “I I could have stayed in Iran and become rich, but I felt that I could not do real scientific work there,” he told Spectrum.

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ACS Meeting Symposium Focuses on Conversion and Utilization of CO2 for Fuels and Chemicals

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Our research proposes the utilization of CO 2 into fuel, recycling the gas and using it as a raw material rather than a waste product. The team experimentally investigated the second step of the cycle in a vertical quartz aerosol reactor, designed for in-situ quenching of Zn vapor, formation of Zn nanoparticles, and oxidation with CO 2.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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” GREEN IDEAS Freight Bus DESIGNER Hugh Frost is looking for backers for his double-decker Freight Busconcept. Freight Bus was one of the losing entrants in London mayor Boris Johnson’scompetition to design a new bus for the capital. Walkout at UN conference after Iran. These both cost much less than lithium cells.