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Daily Archives: January 20, 2013
Hydrocracking is an important source of diesel and jet fuel
EIA: “A hydrocracking unit, or hydrocracker, takes gas oil, which is heavier and has a higher boiling range than distillate fuel oil, and cracks the heavy molecules into distillate and gasoline in the presence of hydrogen and a catalyst. The hydrocracker upgrades low-quality heavy gas oils from the atmospheric or vacuum distillation tower, the fluid… Continue Reading
South Africa has one of the world's largest synthetic fuels industries
EIA, South Africa, January 17, 2013: “South Africa’s energy sector is critical to the economy as the country relies heavily on its large-scale, energy-intensive mining industry. South Africa has only small deposits of conventional oil and natural gas and uses its large coal deposits for most of its energy needs, particularly in the electricity sector.… Continue Reading
U.S. CIO – Increased focus on providing citizens with access to government data sets
Via DataInformed, Tam Harbert: “The White House has undertaken two major cloud and data initiatives to open up its data troves, Steven L. VanRoekel, U.S. federal CIO said: Through its cloud-first policy, the Administration is encouraging agencies to move more aggressively to using the cloud. Through the Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program (Fed RAMP)… Continue Reading
EFF – How to Protect Your Privacy from Facebook's Graph Search
EFF news release: “Earlier this week, Facebook launched a new featureGraph Searchthat raised some privacy concerns with us. Graph Search allows users to make structured searches to filter through friends, friends of friends, and strangers. This feature relies on your profile information being made widely or publicly available, yet there are some Likes, photos, or… Continue Reading
Nature – Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing
Episciences Project to launch series of community-run, open-access journals, by Richard Van Noorden “Mathematicians plan to launch a series of free open-access journals that will host their peer-reviewed articles on the preprint server arXiv. The project was publicly revealed [January 16, 2013] in a blog post by Tim Gowers, a Fields Medal winner and mathematician… Continue Reading
Comments received on the CPSS-IOSCO consultative document "Recovery and resolution of financial market infrastructures"
“In July 2012, the CPSS and IOSCO released their consultative document “Recovery and resolution of financial market infrastructures” with a request that any comments be provided by 28 September 2012. These comments, in PDF format, are available here. The committees thank those who took the time and effort to express their views.” Related postings on… Continue Reading
Bureau of Justice Statistics – Prisoners in 2011
Prisoners in 2011. E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., William J. Sabol, Ph.D. December 17, 2012 – NCJ 239808 “Presents data on prisoners under the jurisdiction of federal and state correctional authorities on December 31, 2011, collected from the National Prisoner Statistics series. The report compares changes in the prison population during 2011 to changes from yearend… Continue Reading
EPAs 2011 Toxics Release Inventory Shows Air Pollutants Continue to Decline
News release: “Total toxic air releases in 2011 declined 8 percent from 2010, mostly because of decreases in hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions, even while total releases of toxic chemicals increased for the second year in a row, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) annual Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) report published January 16,… Continue Reading
