Carbon Footprint
Carbon Footprint
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Speedbumps and a city's carbon footprint?
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We have a mail list for the back channel at InBerkeley.com, and from time to time a question comes up that requires research. If the question is interesting, my first impulse is: Write It Up! Now, this is the result of 12-plus years as a blogger. I know my community loves interesting questions, and we have an informal approach on Scripting News that I'd like to port to InBerkeley.com. So, in that spirit -- here's a question posed by my colleague Mark Haas. Do Berkeley's infamous speed bumps, traffic diverters and other traffic-related policies, like politically-motivated, too-low speed limits raise the city's carbon footprint? We just need a qualified author. Anyone know any traffic engineers, or perhaps someone at the UC Berkeley Institute for Transportation Studies? Other experts? Read More (New Window) >> |
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Go hybrid in the city
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We want to reduce the carbon footprint of our two cars – one for city use and one for outdoor activities. Do we go with one hybrid SUV, or keep the old one to pull our sailboat and buy a ...
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Where the Trees Are
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The National Biomass and Carbon Dataset reveals the location and the carbon storage of forests in the United States.
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China airlines shun EU carbon tax
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China's biggest airlines will not pay a new European Union tax aimed at cutting carbon emissions, their trade body says.
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China in EU carbon scheme 'ban'
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China tells its airlines not to pay charges to the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, aimed at cutting carbon emissions.
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IBM demos new nanotech
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Carbon nanotube, graphene research boost transistors' futureSomehow, we still manage to inch-out the limits of Mooreâs Law: in a double-whammy to end the week, IBM has demonstrated the smallest carbon nanotube transistor, and has claimed the worldâs fastest graphene transistor.⦠Read More (New Window) >> |
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| 02/06/2012 06:55 AM | ||
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Weather Master Vice President Reminds Homeowners about Dangers of Carbon Monoxide
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Heating and air quality expert reminds homeowners that January is most dangerous month of the year.
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Carbon dioxide encourages risky behaviour in clownfish
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Fish took many more risks than normal after they were reared in water with the concentrations of carbon dioxide that are expected in the oceans by 2100
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http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/28/ibm-builds-9-nanometer-carbon-nanotube-transistor-puts-silicon/
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 It's not the smallest transistor out there, but the boffins at IBM have constructed the tiniest carbon nanotube transistor to date. It's nine nanometers in size, making it one nanometer smaller than the presumed physical limit of silicon transistors. Plus, it consumes less power and is able to carry more current than present-day technology. The researchers accomplished the trick by laying a nanotube on a thin layer of insulation, and using a two-step process -- involving some sort of black magic, no doubt -- to add the electrical gates inside. The catch? (There's always a catch) Manufacturing pure batches of semiconducting nanotubes is difficult, as is aligning them in such a way that the transistors can function. So, it'll be some time before the technology can compete with Intel's 3D silicon, but at least we're one step closer to carbon-based computing.IBM builds 9 nanometer carbon nanotube transistor, puts silicon on notice originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Technology Review |  Nano Letters | Email this | Comments
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Carbon Leaf
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China's carbon tax price a worry
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Zecco Jan 8 2012 11:08PM GMT
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http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-57349999-48/fisker-karma-is-so-green-even-interior-uses-low-carbon-leather/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
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Human carbon emissions 'will put off' a lethal Ice Age, say scientists
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Carbon Emissions 'Will Defer Ice Age'
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Telstra upgrades coverage in West Australia
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Footprint to pass half-a-million square kilometersTelstra is tipping infrastructure investment equivalent to $AU106 million into the state of Western Australia as part of an extension to regional mobile phone coverage.⦠Read More (New Window) >> |
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Carbon emissions 'defer Ice Age'
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The next Ice Age is due within 1,500 years, researchers calculate - but greenhouse gas emissions mean it will not happen then.
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Instantis Posts Record Second-Half 2011 Sales Results in a Year of...
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Growth driven by balance of new account acquisitions and footprint expansions at existing accounts spanning major industry sectors and geographies (PRWeb January 11, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/1/prweb9095842.htm Read More (New Window) >> |
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MJ DOING A HAND & FOOTPRINT CEREMONY FROM THE GRAVE?
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The Estate of Michael Jackson announced today that Michael Jackson will be immortalized in a hand and foot print ceremony at Hollywood's legendary Grauman's Chinese Theatre.. GRAB THE FULL REPORT HERE
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Fish: this is your brain on carbon emissions
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In the 1960s, many people learned that “acid” (the drug LSD) made them behave quite strangely. Our emissions of CO2 are causing marine life to experience the effects of a much different kind of acid, but research is showing that it may also affect the behavior of fish (the vertebrate group, not the homophonic jam band). The thinking used to be that the effects of ocean acidification were mostly limited to plankton and coral, which build their shells and skeletons of CaCO3. Impacts on these groups would then ripple up the food chain. However, it’s becoming apparent that fish can be directly harmed, as was shown in a pair of papers last month. Those studies demonstrated that increasing acidification caused increased mortality and abnormal growth of inland silverside and Atlantic cod larvae. A new study in Nature Climate Change shows that acidification can cause detrimental behavioral changes in fish, and uncovers the mechanism by which acidification affects the brain.
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Fish: this is your brain on carbon emissions
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In the 1960s, many people learned that “acid” (the drug LSD) made them behave quite strangely. Our emissions of CO2 are causing marine life to experience the effects of a much different kind of acid, but research is showing that it may also affect the behavior of fish (the vertebrate group, not the homophonic jam band). The thinking used to be that the effects of ocean acidification were mostly limited to plankton and coral, which build their shells and skeletons of CaCO3. Impacts on these groups would then ripple up the food chain. However, it’s becoming apparent that fish can be directly harmed, as was shown in a pair of papers last month. Those studies demonstrated that increasing acidification caused increased mortality and abnormal growth of inland silverside and Atlantic cod larvae. A new study in Nature Climate Change shows that acidification can cause detrimental behavioral changes in fish, and uncovers the mechanism by which acidification affects the brain.
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