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Submission + - EcoCar Challenge Winners Improve Efficiency 300% (inhabitat.com) 1

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lilbridge

on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @09:55AM

lilbridge writes: "Students from Ohio State University recently took top honors in the 2009 EcoCar Challenge for the upgrades they made to a Saturn VUE. The EcoCar Challenge, sponsored by US DOE, Canada and GM, asked competitors to improve the efficiency of Saturn without loosing any performance. OSU responded with a vehicle fueled by ethanol coupled with a lithium battery to achieve a 300% increase in efficiency and the same performance."

Submission + - Carbon chip technology goes commercial (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @08:23AM

An anonymous reader writes: Carbon is the basis of all life forms and may soon be the basis of all semiconductor chips too. Carbon is already beginning to succeed silicon as the predominate semiconducting material for the integrated circuits of the future. Today printable nanotube inks are enabling flexible carbon transistors that outperform organic transistors by 10-times, with standard chip technology switching to carbon as the base material within 10 years. Check out this reporter's blog entry on carbon chips which offers some interesting insights to his EETimes article about diamond-, graphene- and carbon nanotube transistors for future CMOS based on carbon instead of silicon.

Submission + - SPAM: Eight percent admit to downloading video illegally

Submitted by BOOM on Saturday June 20, 2009 @12:42AM

BOOM writes: Eight percent of all consumers in Britain, France, Germany and the United States admit to downloading video illegally from the Internet, according to a survey, showing the scale of the ongoing fight against piracy.

Submission + - SPAM: Obama to sign "Cash for Clunker" bill 3

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coondoggie

on Friday June 19, 2009 @12:03PM

coondoggie writes: "That old car of yours may soon be worth more to you than you think. A $1 billion cash-for-clunkers bill has been sent to President Obama for his signature, after the Senate approved the bill as part of a broader $106 billion war spending package. The idea is to stimulate car sales by offering as much as $4,500 to owners of older cars who trade in older, less-efficient vehicles. The act will go into effect 30 days after the president signs the bill, and will run through October 31. [spam URL stripped]"
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