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MIT and IEA reports take different views of the future of natural gas in transportation

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MIT and the IEA both have newly released reports exploring the potential for and impact of a major expansion in global usage of natural gas, given the current re-evaluation of global supplies. More than 70% of all NGVs and one-half of all fuelling stations can be found in just five countries: Pakistan, Iran, Argentina, Brazil and India.

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RPI Doctoral Student Develops New Graphene Material with 14% Wt. Hydrogen Storage Capacity

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For this innovation, Rafiee is the winner of the 2010 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize, and is among the four 2010 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prize winners this year. Rafiee is the fourth recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize. Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prizes.

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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.