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Comment Re:I wonder (Score 1) 293

It's slow. Even with "quickstarter" it's very slow. Starting 10xlonger than the competition (any). Especially annoying when you open e-mail attachments. Yes you can always close the document not the app, expecting it will be needed in a moment, you can leave OOo running in the background all the time. But how happened the rest got it right, just OOO is sluggish? And that's probably the most important software used on Linux.
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Fuel Tanks Made of Corncob Waste 176

Roland Piquepaille writes "The National Science Foundation is running a story on how corncob waste can be used to created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas. These methane storage systems may encourage mass-market natural gas cars. In fact, these 'briquettes are the first technology to meet the 180 to 1 storage to volume target set by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2000.' They can lead to flat and compact tanks and have already been installed in a pickup truck used regularly by the Kansas City Office of Environmental Quality. And as the whole natural gas infrastructure exists already, this new technology could be soon adopted by car manufacturers."

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