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Soto: Modeling fuel consumption in microgrids

Supplying electricity to populations without full access requires cost-effective, distributed sources of electricity generation. Diesel generators are a popular electricity source because of their low capital costs, but they can have high operating costs.

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Goman: Recording 5,000 years of environmental change in Oaxaca. Mexico

Despite several decades of research focusing on prehispanic human ecology, debate continues over the impact of climatic and anthropogenic landscape change on human populations in Mesoamerica.

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Goman et al. 1998. Recreating Climate and Agricultural Landscape Histories Using Pollen and Charcoal

We present pollen and microscopic charcoal evidence from securely dated lake sediments, located in the Tuxtlas region of Veracruz, Mexico. Two periods of agricultural activity are recognized.