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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 10, @08:03AM (#24129783)
Attached to: Pickens Plans On Wind Power

What about upright wind tunnels? They build a big structure a mile tall with plastic tarps 10ft above the surface for a few miles radius.

Air warms up under the tarp and goes up the tunnel. Estimates put power at around 500 MW. It was a project around Australia somewhere but it was cut to 1/2 mile for some reason (I dont know).

There was talk about building one over the Senate but it's believed the upward rushing hot air would cause a massive drop in air pressure for the surrounding neighborhoods endangering public health. The current system of not requiring Senators to attend most sessions seems to be working.

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by InvisblePinkUnicorn on Tuesday July 08, @08:03PM (#24105833)
Attached to: Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015
In other news, the public will phase out Mercedes purchases by 2015.
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  Depletion Levels in Ghawar w/ Linux clusters 2007-05-15 17:24 microsoft_hater

Submitted by microsoft_hater on Tuesday May 15 2007, @05:24PM
microsoft_hater writes "The Oil Drum forum published an article by geologist Stuart Stanford analyzing Saudi oil reserves and production with the assistance of imaging using Linux super clusters. Particular attention is paid to the super-giant Ghawar, the world's largest oil field. Stanford makes a strong case for worse soon-to-come Saudi declines, and insinuates (who would have guessed?) the Saudi's are lying about where their production future is trending..."
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  AMD claims 40% better performance over Clovertown 2007-01-25 22:52 Neil Jacksons

Submitted by Neil Jacksons on Thursday January 25 2007, @10:52PM
Neil Jacksons writes "Randy Allen, AMD's corporate vice president for server and workstation products said AMD's "Barcelona" quad-core chip, due to arrive midway through 2007, will be a significant notch faster than the Clovertown chips expected to be on the market at that time. "We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by 40 percent," The quad-core chip also will outperform AMD's current dual-core Opterons on "floating point" mathematical calculations by a factor of 3.6 at the same clock rate, he said."
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