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Ford Vehicles to Employ the Fuel-Saving “EcoBoost” Engine
Ford unveiled a new fuel-efficient gasoline engine at the Detroit Auto Show. Called the “EcoBoost,” the new engine combines direct injection and turbocharging to achieve a 20% improvement in fuel economy, 15% lower carbon dioxide emissions, and superior driving performance. The engine injects gasoline directly into […]
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Protesting Citi Bank and Bank of America
Thousands of activists across the U.S. turned out to protest Citi Bank and Bank of America’s investments in new coal-fired power plants and dirty coal extraction methods such as mountaintop removal coal mining. Here are a few pictures from the San Fransisco protest and […]
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Green Ranking of Supercomputers
The TOP500 list, which ranks the world’s supercomputers in terms of “teraflops,” or trillions of calculations per second, is released twice a year in June and November. That list is currently led by a supercomputer at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with a peak speed […]
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