I’m going to continue turning $US into “stuff” and things with durable value. The Petro Dollar and the whole $US As Reserve Currency is a giant ship that will take a long time to turn around, or notice when it has run onto the rocks. But it is pretty clear at this point that ...
TheUS, Italy, Spain and France all have more deaths than China, according to tracking numbers from John Hopkins University and Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center. As of 2:00 p.m. PT on March 31, Italy is sitting at 12,428 deaths; Spain at 8,269 deaths; the US at 3,606 deaths; Fr...
Most high-tech companies have a business model that incorporates a sort of 'bizarro force' that is completely the opposite of what old-economy companies operate under :The price of the products sold by a high-tech company decreases over time. Any other company will manage inventory, pricing, ...
While it was easy for younger teachers to shift to the new platform swiftly, teachers in the age group of forty and above faced challenges. There are reports of harassment of the teachers on the digital platform (Times of India, September 22, 2020)12. Strangers getting into classes, ...
The consequence is the origination of technogenic soils (Technosols) and the emergence of habitats for organisms on the superficial parts of mine spoils. Technosols are defined as soils strongly influenced by human activity (IUSS Working Group WRB, 2015). Directions and dynamics of further ...
and Water Resources at University of California Davis (UCD); and the John Muir Institute of the Environment, UCD. Funding for A.A. was provided by a NERC Industrial Innovation Fellowship (NE/R013489/1). Funding for M.K.H. was provided, in part, by the Energy Graduate Group, UCD. Fun...
The evaluation in this paper represents a scenario in which a pulping capacity increase of 18.5% is obtained at each mill by directing 18.5% of the BL dry solids flow to the biofuel plant, while keeping the thermal load on the recovery boiler the same as under normal operation. Table 2. ...
(2014) found that Indian bioethanol generally results in lower or comparable greenhouse gas emissions, non-renewable energy consumption, human health impacts, and ecological damage when compared to Brazilian bioethanol in a cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment. India's bioethanol program predominantly ...
(the seeds contain ricin, a toxic protein), production in the United States ceased in the early 1970s, and currently the industry depends on imports, primarily from India. Despite the controversy surrounding its production, there is a growing interest in domestic castor production because of ...
They represented different electricity customers such as a university, a hospital, a farm and various industries. A ninth load was created by an aggregation of all eight loads and is intended to represent an ensemble of electricity consumers. For each load the same procedure was applied, which ...