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articleWhy president Trump can’t squash the innovating, job creating, money saving clean energy industry: "79% of Americans would like to see more emphasis on domestic solar energy production. Over 80 major companies have committed to the goal of 100% renewable energy." (qz.com)
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articleFossil fuel subsidies was 6.5% of global GDP in 2015. China had the most, followed by US, Russia, EU and India. Eliminating subsidies would have reduced global carbon emissions in 2013 by 21%, fossil fuel air pollution deaths by 55%, raised revenue by 4%, and social welfare by 2.2%, of global GDP. (sciencedirect.com)
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articleVW CEO: building a battery factory to support electric car production ‘makes sense’ now: "the company announced its plan to build 2 to 3 million all-electric cars a year and to unveil 30 new models by 2025 – across all its brands (VW, Audi, Porsche, etc.)." (electrek.co)
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articleDutch police are trialling an augmented reality (AR) system that streams video from body cameras worn by officers to experts elsewhere, who can then guide the officers by annotating the scene virtually with notes that the officers can see on a smartphone or head-mounted device like Google Glass. (newscientist.com)
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articleA project by Google’s DeepMind and the University of Oxford applied deep learning to a huge data set of BBC programmes to create a lip-reading system that leaves professionals in the dust, using some 5000 hours from six different different TV programs, containing 118,000 sentences. (newscientist.com)
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articleCanada to phase out coal power by 2030: official (finance.yahoo.com)
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articleThermoelectric paint enables walls to convert heat into electricity (phys.org)
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articlePanasonic invests $60m in 'frivolous' laundry robot: "There is still no price tag on the device, which is about the size of a wardrobe and uses artificial intelligence and image recognition technology to fold and stack... an "all in one" device that can also wash and dry clothes, slated for 2019." (bbc.com)
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article‘Things are getting weird in the polar regions’ (washingtonpost.com)
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academicIt won’t be easy to bring back millions of manufacturing jobs (brookings.edu)
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Obama Halts Arctic Oil Leases and Undoing It Won't Be Simple for Trump - No new offshore oil and gas leases will be offered in the Alaskan Arctic through 2022, according to a new five-year plan for offshore drilling released Friday by the Obama administration. (insideclimatenews.org)
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For the first time, researchers have shown that a combined approach – using a common cold virus to introduce a vaccine into the body, as well as an injection of a DNA-based vaccine – results in the immune system actively protecting against HIV in the gut and bodily cavities. (medicalxpress.com)
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