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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. This means that storing and distributing energy is as important as its generation. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Master Machine Learning With These 5 Courses

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Both models use statistics to make predictions, but there are differences. Advanced knowledge of mathematics, statistics, data analysis, and programming is fundamental for a machine learning engineer. This course can help you comprehend diverse sources that allow businesses to collect, store, organize, and interpret data.

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Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

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While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. Note the logarithmic ordinate scale. Credit: Joule , MacFarlane et al.

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Study: consumer products overtake transportation as largest source of VOCs air pollution in cities

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We consider four key pieces of evidence to support this finding: (i) energy and chemical production statistics; (ii) near-roadway measurements of transportation emissions, together with laboratory testing of chemical products; (iii) ambient air measurements away from roads; and (iv) indoor air measurements. McDonald, Joost A. Cappa, Jose L.

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OSU study finds varied impact of pandemic on public transit use across US

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A study by researchers at The Ohio State University suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic had varying effects on demand for public transit in US cities. These are the health care workers, people working service jobs, working in grocery stores, people who clean and maintain buildings. —Harvey Miller.

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Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted Brain Modelling Pioneer Says

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Grossberg—an endowed professor of cognitive and neural systems, and of mathematics and statistics, psychological and brain sciences, and biomedical engineering at Boston University —based ART on his theories about how the brain processes information. He calls his model Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART).

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New ORNL tool to assess global freshwater stress suggests that population growth could be a bigger factor in water availability than increasing temperatures

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Our work establishes a new method to couple geographic information system data with global climate outputs and statistical analysis. Kodra and Ganguly, both formerly of ORNL, are employed by Northeastern University while Steinhaeuser, also formerly of ORNL, is employed by the University of Minnesota. —Esther Parish.

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