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Revolting: 114 mpg Avion Sports Car Rejected for Fuel Being “Too Cheap”
There was a sports car built in 1984 by Craig Henderson and Bill Green from Bellingham, Washington, and at that time it was able to set a record of 103.7 mpg for Guinness Book(in European terms, that’s 2.27 liters/100km). Now they’re reviving it with the help of the X-Prize Competition.
Delaying Internet’s Data Could Reduce Its Carbon Emissions
The servers, routers, switches and other components of a network are designed to work with much larger quantities of data than they do daily, but they use just about the same amount of electricity whether they’re idle or busy.
Sergiu Nedevschi of the University of California in Berkeley, US, and his colleagues from Intel Research labs [...]
