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...upgraded and widened to allow them to run faster, they could speed travelers between the business districts of cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, or Chicago and St. Louis, as quickly as the tag team of taxi-airplane-taxi. Trains are also two to eight times as fuel efficient as planes...
...there's nothing normal about the nearly 26,000 liters of fuel an hour - twice that of a jumbo jet - that the Concorde consumes. The Concorde's comeback is notable not only because British Airways has decided the plane is safe to fly again, but also because it can afford to fuel...
...attacks seem only to have helped make dirty old petroleum even cheaper. Benchmark crude has fallen from $27 to $19 since Sept. 10. With the U.S. shocked into recession mode - into which it seemed to be heading in any case - and airlines cutting back dramatically on their jet-fuel consumption, world oil demand has taken its steepest drop since the early 1980s. What's more, the oil producers still can't get their act together. This month, opec decided to cut back production by 1.5 million barrels a day - but only if non-OPEC countries trimmed back...
Over the next three decades or so, BP's main shift will be to gas, says chief executive John Browne. While the company sees long-term potential in solar power and hydrogen fuel cells, it believes that these technologies are not yet commercially viable. (In an attempt to reduce the high manufacturing cost of solar panels, Shell and the Dutch coatings and chemicals firm Akzo Nobel are testing new techniques...
Wiley, 57, was last seen in Memphis at the annual meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital just after midnight on Friday, Nov. 16. His car was found with a full fuel tank and the key in the ignition on a bridge over the Mississippi River at 4 a.m. that morning...