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CRI awarded €1.8M EU grant to scale CO2-to-methanol technology

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The project is referred to as “CirclEnergy” as CRI’s technology is designed to support and enable the transition to circular economy. CRI developed the ETL technology to produce low-carbon intensity methanol from CO 2 and hydrogen and operates the first production facility of its kind in Iceland.

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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

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The measure of how many years of healthy life are lost is often referred to as “disability-adjusted life years.”). For example, poverty-stricken countries facing a higher diabetes-pollution risk include Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Guyana, while richer countries such as France, Finland and Iceland experience a lower risk.

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

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After all, it takes someone who refers to his Prius as “the gas guzzler&# and his Culver City, Calif., For his sequel, Paine’s been gauging the mood at the now-much-gloomier GM headquarters, visiting geothermal-powered and EV-friendly Iceland, and test driving his brand new Tesla in Los Angeles.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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A team led by Joseph Spatafora at Oregon State University and Jason Stajich at University of California at Riverside is planning to fill in gaps in the Fungal Tree of Life by sequencing 1,000 fungal genomes over the next five years, providing at least two reference genomes for each of the 577 recognized families classified under Fungi.

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles actually good for the environment?

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Throughout this article, we’ll refer to ICEVs and EVs; here’s a quick breakdown explaining the difference between the two. When measuring the efficiency of a vehicle, it has become common to measure the processes involved in the entire ‘life cycle’ of a vehicle – referred to as ‘cradle to grave’. Here’s what we discovered.

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles actually good for the environment?

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Throughout this article, we’ll refer to ICEVs and EVs – here’s a quick breakdown explaining the difference between the two. New Zealand has the third highest rate of renewable energy as a portion of primary supply in the OECD (after Norway and Iceland). Here’s what we discovered. WHAT EV MYTHS HAVE WE COVERED?

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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6TH PLACE: ICELAND, 58 POINTS (TIED FOR 7TH IN 2019) Claim to fame: sparse schmarse , just look at them numbers! Sure, 2x more people live within Seattle city limits than in all of Iceland’s huge expanses. For reference, in Europe, whose overall bus fleet size seems 2-3x smaller than China’s, somewhere around 2-2.5k

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