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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Health - Jul 2, 2008
High levels of formaldehyde found in trailers provided to Hurricane Katrina evacuees on the Gulf Coast probably resulted from cheap wood and poor ventilation in designs used by manufacturers under permissive government …
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gigaom.com » GigaOM - May 20, 2008
I wrote about an effort us use millions of specialized embedded processors to build an energy-efficient (relatively) supercomputer that could run at speeds of up to 200 petaflops over at Earth2Tech. The Department of …
Also tagged: infrastructure, csco, uncategorized, semiconductors, cisco, tensilica
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Berkeley scientists suggest a supercomputer made from iPod processors [Hardware]valleywag.com » Valleywag - May 9, 2008 A team of researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working on climate-change prediction have suggested that a supercomputer made from thousands of inexpensive, low-power processors like those found in … |
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Business - Apr 23, 2008
The Imperial Valley of California is ideal country for solar and wind power. It rains less than three inches a year. Temperatures hit 110 degrees in the summer. The wind blows pretty steadily, too. And it's just east …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook - Feb 2, 2008
We need to treat green energy like a real energy industry -- with a vigorous mix of diplomacy, laws and incentives -- and dispelling some key myths.
Also tagged: europe, energy, germany, japan, about, china, washington dc, united states, spain, 5, myths, earth friendly, toyota prius, national academy of sciences, u s geological survey, ceres, the pentagon, new america foundation, lisa margonelli, u s armed forces, tennessee valley authority, cambridge massachusetts, southwest washington dc, u s energy information administration
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Researchers claim computer records for speed, scale, detail and parallelismnetworkworld.com » Layer 8's blog - Dec 12, 2007 Researchers were looking for a way to more accurately weather forecasts; what they got was US records for size, performance, and detail of computer weather simulations. Read more Also tagged: careers, e commerce, data center, general discussions |
nytimes.com » Bits - Sep 11, 2007
Nanotechnology research advances are happening with such frequency these days that the individual achievements are losing some of their power to awe — until you stop and think about them. Take two successes announced …
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IRENE seeks to digitize, preserve fragile recordingsengadget.com » Engadget - Jun 19, 2007 Filed under: Portable Audio Granted, it's no Commodore 64, but the Library of Congress is yet again warming up to modern technology in order to save some of its most precious at-risk recordings from decades (or … Also tagged: audio, mapping, maps, library, map, sound, library of congress, digitization, lbnl, preservation, irene, auditory |