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Cambridge-MIT Study Attributes ~8,000 Premature Deaths Per Year to Aircraft Cruise Emissions

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A study by a team from the University of Cambridge (UK) and MIT attributes ~8,000 premature mortalities per year to aircraft cruise emissions. However, recent regional modeling work indicates that cruise emissions may contribute a significant fraction of aircraft-accountable ground-level pollutant concentrations on a regional scale.

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Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

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” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. An interim report with some of this study’s major findings and recommendations was released in June 2010. Source: IEA.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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—Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. What was the maximum share of wind that we could have in the system without blowing it up—5 percent or 20 percent or 30 percent? So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D.,

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Ford Making Aggressive Push With EcoBoost and Technologies Such as Ti-VCT for Improved Fuel Economy; Roadmap for Future Generations of EcoBoost Highlights Role as Company Strategy as Well as Product

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V6 EcoBoost engine in the 2010 MY Ford Taurus SHO and Flex as well as the Lincoln MKS luxury sedan. These systems will also need to deliver very low criteria pollutant levels (e.g., One such potential complementary technology for addressing the knock challenge, Kapp said, is the ethanol boosting system Ford has been exploring with MIT.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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"The Volt continues to be one of our highest priorities among all GMs future product programs and remains on track for a November 2010 launch," spokesman David Darovitz told Automotive News. One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? Forget the black helicopter conspiracies.

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