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Lintec licenses UTD carbon nanotube technology, opens center to spur commercialization

2015-02-09 15:55:32| Green Car Congress

EPA says pipeline could spur emissions

2015-02-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: An Environmental Protection Agency review of the Keystone XL pipeline emphasized that the recent drop in global oil prices might mean that construction of the pipeline could spur increased development of the Canadian oil sands and thus increase planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. That review might influence President Obamas long-delayed verdict on the 1,179-mile pipeline, which could bring about 800,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta to the Gulf Coast. Mr. Obama has said that an important...

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Phones and Wearables Will Spur Tenfold Growth in Wireless Data By 2019

2015-02-03 15:37:11| Wireless - Topix.net

Persistent growth in the use of smart phones, plus the adoption of wireless wearable devices and will cause the total amount of Global wireless data traffic is expected to rise by 10 times its current levels by 2019, according to a forecast by networking giant Cisco Systems out today. The forecast, which Cisco calls its Visual Networking Index, is based in part on the growth of wireless traffic during 2014, which Cisco says reached 30 exabytes, the equivalent of 30 billion gigabytes.

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U.S. EPA chief hopes Pope will spur concern on climate change

2015-01-30 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday she hoped Pope Francis' upcoming message to his flock on the environment would help galvanize concern about climate change and convince skeptics that "the science is real". EPA administrator Gina McCarthy, visiting the Vatican to discuss climate change, said U.S. President Barack Obama shared the pope's belief that it was a moral issue because its effects would be felt most by the poorest and weakest nations. "The pope knows his...

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