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by palfrey on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @07:35AM (#26884623) Attached to: Physics Experiments To Inspire Undergraduates?

For the non-physicists of us wandering around Imperial, any chance we could get to see some of the cool experiments? Just for kicks and giggles quite frankly (*far* too down the CS route to considering switching allegiance), but might it be possible anyway?

Submission + - Government won't allow green car sales (msn.com)

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Geoffrey.landis

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @07:03AM

Geoffrey.landis writes: "Auto industry blogger Lawrence Ulrich notes that Honda is now making a "Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle" (or PZEV for short) version of the 2008 Accord, an all-new vehicle that is redesigned to meet California emission standards. He notes "So, just how green is a PZEV machine? Well, if you just cut your lawn with a gas mower, congratulations, you just put out more pollution in one hour than these cars do in 2,000 miles of driving." But the irony is that it's actually illegal for automakers to sell these green cars outside of the special states they were designed for! Apparently, anybody selling one of these ultra-green vehicles out of the correctly-designated venue — which means either California, or seven northeast-states with similar pollution laws — "could be subject to civil fines of up to $27,500. Volvo sent its dealers a memo alerting them to this fact, noting that its greenest S40 and V50 models were only for the special states.""

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