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None for the road? : stricter drink driving laws and road accidents

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2021

Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....

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Speed limit enforcement and road safety

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rekers, Ramona - 2019 - This version: December 2019

We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media campaigns that announce the SLMO and provide information on the dangers of speeding. Using register data on the universe of police reported accidents in a generalized...

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Happiness as a driver of risk-avoiding behavior

Goudie, Robert J. B.; Mukherjee, Sach; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2011

Understanding the reasons why individuals take risks, particularly unnecessary risks, remains an important question in economics. We provide the first evidence of a powerful connection between happiness and risk-avoidance. Using data on 300,000 Americans, we demonstrate that happier individuals...

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The value of technology improvements in games with externalities : a fresh look at offsetting behavior

Hoy, Michael; Polborn, Mattias - 2014

How should we evaluate the welfare implications of improvements to safety technologies in the presence of offsetting behavior? We model this problem as a symmetric game in which each player's payoff depends on his own action and the average action of the other players, and analyze under which...

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Energy and exergy analysis of hydrogen-oriented coal gasification with CO2 capture

Liszka, Marcin; Malik, Tomasz; Manfrida, Giampaolo - In: Energy 45 (2012) 1, pp. 142-150

Coal gasification is seen as an attractive way for hydrogen production. The main advantage of this approach is the low …, pressure-swing adsorption process for hydrogen separation, combined cycle for power production and essential auxiliary … loss takes place in the gasifier. The overall exergy efficiency of the coal-to-hydrogen system is equal to ca. 57%, while …

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Exergetic evaluation of 5 biowastes-to-biofuels routes via gasification

Sues, Anna; Juraščík, Martin; Ptasinski, Krzysztof - In: Energy 35 (2010) 2, pp. 996-1007

gas), methanol, Fischer–Tropsch fuels, hydrogen, as well as heat and electricity, from several biowastes generated in the … synthesis is preferred when exergetic efficiency is the objective parameter, but hydrogen process is more efficient when the …

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Exergy based performance analysis of hydrogen production from rice straw using oxygen blown gasification

Bhattacharya, Atmadeep; Das, Anirban; Datta, Amitava - In: Energy 69 (2014) C, pp. 525-533

An exergetic analysis has been performed on a gasification-based bio-hydrogen generation system consisting of an ASU … operating parameters on the hydrogen yield and cold gas efficiency. It is observed that, with 95% oxygen in the gasifying agent … and with gasifier equivalence ratio of 4.0, the process generates 107.8 g hydrogen per kg of dry biomass (on ash free …

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Advances in hydrogen production by thermochemical water decomposition: A review

Rosen, Marc A. - In: Energy 35 (2010) 2, pp. 1068-1076

Hydrogen demand as an energy currency is anticipated to rise significantly in the future, with the emergence of a … hydrogen economy. Hydrogen production is a key component of a hydrogen economy. Several production processes are commercially … other hydrogen production processes. Recent advances in hydrogen production by thermochemical water decomposition are …

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Energy and exergy analyses of a new four-step copper–chlorine cycle for geothermal-based hydrogen production

Tolga Balta, M.; Dincer, Ibrahim; Hepbasli, Arif - In: Energy 35 (2010) 8, pp. 3263-3272

In this paper, energy and exergy analyses of the geothermal-based hydrogen production via thermochemical water …

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Assessment of maximum available work of a hydrogen fueled compression ignition engine using exergy analysis

Chintala, Venkateswarlu; Subramanian, K.A. - In: Energy 67 (2014) C, pp. 162-175

) of a dual-fuel diesel engine (H2 (hydrogen)–diesel) using exergy analysis. The maximum available work increased with H2 …

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