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Building Better Qubits

Cars That Think

While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.” When I go back to my hometown, many of our clients still have the furniture that I helped build for them.”

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

They especially like the conversion vehicles because they’re different.”. A history that goes back GEVA has a history that very much involves the aforementioned conversions. The club started in 2006, when you couldn’t buy an electric car. Wayne Garver with his 1971 VW conversion. “I

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Engineered E. coli produce styrene from glucose

Green Car Congress

Engineers at Arizona State University have engineered E. The conversion of endogenously synthesized l-phenylalanine to styrene was achieved by the co-expression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase and trans-cinnamate decarboxylase. In 2006, eight. US production of styrene has risen fairly steadily since 1960.

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

They especially like the conversion vehicles because they’re different.”. A history that goes back GEVA has a history that very much involves the aforementioned conversions. The club started in 2006, when you couldn’t buy an electric car. Wayne Garver with his 1971 VW conversion. “I

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Updated energy life-cycle assessment of soybean biodiesel finds fossil energy ratio of 5.54; significant improvement from earlier studies

Green Car Congress

Researchers from the University of Idaho and the US Department of Agriculture have updated the analysis of the energy life-cycle of soybean biodiesel and found a fossil energy ratio (FER) of 5.54 using 2006 agricultural data. 2009), and Sheehan et al. Pradhan et al. 2011) Click to enlarge. later reported using 2002 data. reduction).

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Beyond Pizza and Yale: What to See, Eat and Do in New Haven

Baua Electric

The museum’s four-year renovation not only refreshed the nearly 100-year-old building, but also included an overhaul of the fossil mounts that research has proved to be inaccurate. Established to mentor underrepresented artists and curators, the organization focuses on community-building and a fellowship program. A fresh pose.

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International team sequences Eucalyptus genome; potential for improving biofuel and biomaterial production

Green Car Congress

By tracing their evolutionary lineages and expression in woody tissues we defined a core set of genes as well as novel lignin-building candidates that are highly expressed in the development of xylem—the woody tissue that helps channel water throughout the plant—which serves to strengthen the tree. —Alexander Myburg.