The Economic Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative on Ten Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States

Assesses outcomes of the first U.S. market-based program to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants, including impact on electricity markets, power companies' costs, and consumer prices; use of auction proceeds; and states' economic benefits

High-dimensional quantum dynamics of adsorption and desorption of H2_2 at Cu(111)

We performed high-dimensional quantum dynamical calculations of the dissociative adsorption and associative desorption of hydrogen on Cu(111). The potential energy surface (PES) is obtained from density functional theory calculations. Two regimes of dynamics are found, at low energies sticking is determined by the minimum energy barrier, at high energies by the distribution of barrier heights. Experimental results are well-reproduced qualitatively, but some quantitative discrepancies are identified as well.Comment: 4 two column pages, revtex, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Let

The Nonvariability of the Progenitor of Supernova 1993J in M81

An archive of images taken in the early 1980s exists for a field which includes the progenitor of supernova 1993J in M81. Fifty-four CCD frames in V, and several in other colors from this set taken in 1984 are analyzed to demonstrate that the progenitor of supernova 1993J was not variable to within a limit of 0.2 mag. The frames analyzed cover a time span of 150 days. The colors of the M81 SN progenitor are consistent with those of a late G supergiant