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Comment Re:Diablo III LAN Multiplayer? (Score 1) 504

by rapid2133 on Monday October 06, 2008 @05:19PM (#25277683) Attached to: Ask Blizzard Employees About Things That Matter

Simply want to add my plea to Leonard Boyarsky to keep us LAN players happy. I bought (yes, paid for) two copies of Diablo 2 and LOD for LAN play and almost never used Battlenet. It's a dealbreaker for us dedicated LAN players. Buy or not buy!

Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% 674

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 27, 2008 @05:02AM from the innovation-is-a-real-gas dept.

Ponca City, We love you writes "Temple University physics professor Rongjia Tao has developed a simple device that could dramatically improve fuel efficiency in automobiles by as much as 20 percent. The device, attached to the fuel line of a car's engine near the fuel injector, creates an electric field that thins fuel, reducing its viscosity so that smaller droplets are injected into the engine. Because combustion starts at the droplet surface, smaller droplets lead to cleaner and more efficient combustion. Six months of road testing in a diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz automobile showed an increase from 32 miles per gallon to 38 mpg, a 20 percent boost, and a 12-15 percent gain in city driving. 'We expect the device will have wide applications on all types of internal combustion engines, present ones and future ones,' Tao wrote in the study published in Energy & Fuels. 'This discovery promises to significantly improve fuel efficiency in all types of internal combustion engine powered vehicles and at the same time will have far-reaching effects in reducing pollution of our environment,' says Larry F. Lemanski, Senior Vice President for Research and Strategic Initiatives at Temple."

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