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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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Arab News announced in the first paragraph of its report on Q2 Saudi economic performance that Q2 GDP grew 3.79 The Association of European Businesses in Russia recently announced that sales of new cars and light commercial vehicles contracted 29 percent in August year-over-year and forecast a 37 percent decline for all of 2015.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. model in 2001 by the DOEs Argonne National Lab estimates hybrids reduce greenhouse gases by 22%, and plug-in hybrids by 36% (see table 2). You dont have to plug it in. The GREET 1.6

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

Starting around 2001, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride fomented a revolution in lighting that has been, by some measures, the fastest technology shift in human history. Basically, the input AC voltage is converted to DC, and then that DC is “chopped” into a high-frequency alternating-current square wave.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. Hoff and his group developed a multiplexed approach to conversion in which a single converter is shared by the transmit and receive channels. But word went out.

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How to Escape the Olympics in Paris This Summer

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Time commitment : 3 to 4 hours Location : Châtelet, Rambuteau or Hôtel de Ville Metro stations Cost of entry : €17 or €14 for concessions; centrepompidou.fr Time commitment: 3 hours Location : Bois de Boulogne and Les Sablons Metro stations Cost of entry: €16, €10 for concessions; fondationlouisvuitton.fr

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