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Plunging Oil Prices Choke Off Boom Bakersfield
2015-01-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Each year, the American Assn. of Drilling Engineers hosts a meeting here affectionately called the Liar's Club. A cocktail-fueled crowd hears oil companies' well-drilling and production forecasts - estimates often so grandiose everyone understands they are exaggerations. Pledges to drill thousands of wells are common. But at this month's meeting, no one felt like telling tall tales. Fewer than 10 wells were promised, all by small, independent companies. Giant firms - Chevron, Occidental - promised...
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269,000 tons of plastic litter choke world's oceans
2014-12-11 00:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: There are plastic shopping bags, bottles, toys, action figures, bottle caps, pacifiers, tooth brushes, boots, buckets, deodorant roller balls, umbrella handles, fishing gear, toilet seats and so much more. Plastic pollution is pervasive in Earth's oceans. Researchers unveiled on Wednesday what they called the most scientifically rigorous estimate to date of the amount of plastic litter in the oceans - about 269,000 tons - based on data from 24 ship expeditions around the globe over six years....
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End in sight for overhaul of busy Tower 55 rail junction, which is also a choke point
2014-08-25 18:18:42| Railroads - Topix.net
OMAHA, Neb. - Union Pacific Corp. and BNSF Railway are almost finished with a $104 million overhaul of the nation's busiest rail intersection that is key to moving freight and passengers nationally and internationally.
The "E-Field Choke" Application Note
2014-08-08 20:13:40| rfglobalnet Downloads
DLI’s E-Field Choke is a monolithic device based on highly effective and reliable parallel plate ceramic capacitor technology.
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How climate change will choke our cities with smog
2014-06-25 14:40:56| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: Global warming doesn't just mean rising seas, soaring temperatures, and prolonged droughts. It means a miasma of polluted air, hovering over a city near you. Air pollution and climate change have always been linked--the greenhouse gases frying the globe are emitted from power plants and cars alongside more traditionally toxic pollutants--but a new study confirms some surprising new evidence that a hotter planet will almost certainly be a smoggier one. Climate change is beginning to seriously impact...
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