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Volkswagen Passat TDI sets Guinness World Record for fuel economy around the 48 US states; 78 mpg US
2013-06-24 19:30:25| Green Car Congress
Australia Firm's Infractions in Indonesia Bring One-Year World Bank Project Ban
2013-06-24 18:31:24| ENR.com: Headline News
Engineer GHD says overcharges and fees that its now-closed local units paid to subconsultants on a 2007 post-tsunami contract was an isolated practice.
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Chinas Tianhe-2 supercomputer, twice as fast as DoEs Titan, shocks the world by arriving two years early
2013-06-24 12:56:04| Extremetech
In a massive escalation of the supercomputing arms race, China has built Tianhe-2, a supercomputer capable of 33.86 petaflops -- almost twice as fast as the US Department of Energy's Titan. The US isn't scheduled to build another large supercomputer until 2015, suggesting China will hold pole position for a long time to come. The computer has 32,000 Ivy Bridge Xeon CPUs and 48,000 Xeon Phi accelerator boards for a total of 3,120,000 compute cores, 1.4 petabytes of RAM -- and of course the operating system is Linux.
World facing "climate bomb" of super-greenhouse gases
2013-06-24 12:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: A "climate bomb" of potent greenhouse gases is set to be released after leading carbon trading markets banned generators from raising credits by destroying the chemical. That is the stark warning from a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which claims producers in China and India are threatening to vent vast amounts of hydroflourocarbon-23 (HFC-23) amidst accusations that a ban on trading the carbon credits issued for incinerating the gas means it is no longer financially...
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World Bank funds Nanchang urban rail project in China
2013-06-24 01:00:00| Railway Technology
The World Bank has provided a loan of $250m to support the development of an urban rail line in Nanchang, China.
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