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The President-Elect Candidates’ Plans to Further IEEE’s Mission

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In 2016 she created the IEEE MOVE (Mobile Outreach VEhicle) program to assist with disaster relief efforts and for science, technology, engineering, and math educational purposes. In 2001 he founded the computational engineering science program at the University of California, Berkeley, chairing it until 2010. He received a Ph.D.

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Biodiesel from engineered sugarcane more economical than from soybean

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A techno-economic analysis by a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has determined that biodiesel produced from oil from genetically modified lipid-producing sugarcane (lipid-cane) is much more economical than biodiesel produced from soybean oil.

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Oil Well Strippers Suffering From Low Oil Prices

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Stripper-operated wells account for all of the oil production in the state of Illinois, for instance. The supply of oil may already be more constrained than many market participants realize as a result of stripper shutdowns. Stripper well shutdowns could increase significantly as 2016 gears up. Article Source: [link].

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” We Drive Solar from his Utrecht home in 2016.

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Oak Ridge researchers tap Titan supercomputer for two lignin-related projects; improving knowledge and processes for cellulosic biofuels

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With a complete model, the team turned to the Cray XK7 Titan, America’s fastest supercomputer, to supply the necessary computing power to observe the system in action. Smith (2016) “Cosolvent pretreatment in cellulosic biofuel production: Effect of tetrahydrofuran-water on lignin structure and dynamics.” Cai, Charles E.

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Is the Future of Moore’s Law in a Particle Accelerator?

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When ASML introduced the first generation of these US $100-million-plus precision machines in 2016, the industry was desperate for them. Doubling the source power is “very challenging,” agrees Ahmed Hassanein who leads the Center for Materials Under Extreme Environment, at Purdue University, in Indiana. Moving to a much shorter, 13.5-nm

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Trump plans to gut EV policy: What it might mean for jobs, auto industry, made in America

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According to Harvard University data, the U.S. Climate change: Drill, baby, drill Trump made climate-change denial a core 2016 facet of many policy decisions. as the manufacturing push and corresponding buildout of the supply chain to create jobs making electric vehicles has especially benefited “red” states. businesses.