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US DOE awards ~$5M to expand research on methane hydrates

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Methane hydrates are ice-like structures with natural gas locked inside, which can be found both onshore and offshore—including under the Arctic permafrost and in ocean sediments along nearly every continental shelf in the world. Earlier post.). Selected projects are: Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The University of Texas at Austin.

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Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Without the Magnets

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Instead, the machine sends pulses of electric current along a column of highly conductive plasma, creating a magnetic field that simultaneously confines, compresses, and heats the ionized gas. University of Washington. But Zap’s ascent of a forbiddingly steep technology curve has been swift and impressive. advanced space propulsion.

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Researchers present new explanation for the long-range transport of PAH pollutants

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While it is clear that gas-particle partitioning of semivolatile PAHs strongly influences their atmospheric distribution, transport pathways, degradation and environmental fate, the fundamental aspects that determine this partitioning remain unclear. Again they used α-pinene for the SOA.

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Enterprise Rent-A-Car Adds 5,000 Hybrids to Nationwide Fleet

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Enterprise Rent-A-Car is adding approximately 5,000 additional gas/electric hybrids to its nationwide fleet and designating nearly 80 rental locations across the country as “hybrid branches.” Louis; Seattle; and Washington, DC.

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NRC report concludes hydraulic fracturing poses low risk for causing earthquakes, but risks are higher for wastewater injection wells; CCS impact undetermined

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Schematic diagram of a shale gas well following hydraulic fracture treatment, with the relative depths of local water wells shown for scale. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) extracts natural gas by injecting a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals in short bursts at high pressure into deep underground wells.

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The First U.S. Human-Operated Submersible Changed the Course of Oceanography

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During a 1956 symposium about deep-sea exploration held in Washington, D.C., The crew escaped unharmed, but the food they brought for lunch sank with the ship. In a 2015 interview with the WGBH Forum Network , Dudley Foster , an engineer who worked on Alvin , described the previous submersibles as “blimps.”

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Frank Talk on Plug-Ins

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photo EV World H ere is a new interview with Andy Frank from Washington Technology. Survival Guide: Perspectives from the field Washington Technology Feb. And unlike electric-only vehicles, if a plug-in hybrid’s batteries are drained, the car simply switches over to gas power. Look at the first year of the Ford Escape hybrid.

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