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...trains to travel at very high speeds. The technology was debuted in a 2006 energy conference in Beijing, but is now being pushed in America as an alternative to expansive wind farms. The companies building magnetic levitation wind turbines claim they can operate in winds as slow as 3 mph and produce one gigawatt of power, with much greater efficiency than a typical horizontal-axis turbine. Best of all, Maglev Wind Turbine of Sierra Vista, AZ promises a one year return on investment.The prospect of a single wind tower generating far more energy than an entire wind farm, which many...
...only highways in the developed world (outside the Isle of Man) that don't restrict speed, is meeting with serious resistance. Under the proposal, approved by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) at a convention this weekend, Germans would be required to keep to within a 130 kph (about 80 mph) on the regional highways in order to save the planet - "a fast and unbureaucratic path to climate protection," according to a statement from the party...
Crawford, a former Eliot House resident, was sitting on her bicycle while stopped at a crosswalk in Walnut Creek, Calif., when a 74-year-old man lost control of his 2002 Cadillac while driving at about 35 mph. The man crashed his car into Crawford and her friend, fellow rider and Berkeley exchange student Jan Christian Claussen...
...technical rehearsals this week, the Shuttle Launch Experience begins with riders climbing an authentic looking gantry into a white "clean room" to board a model of a crew pod in the shuttle's payload bay. A real 8.5 min. vertical launch into orbit reaching a speed of 17,500 mph is compressed into a 5 min. jowl-rattling experience, including the key launch milestones of solid rocket-booster separation, main engine cut off and the external tank separation...
...first great nor’easter of 2007 expects to hit in full force today. But after three races this weekend in brutal weather, the Radcliffe lightweight and heavyweight crews have already had enough.Facing 15-20 mph winds, cold and overcast skies, and an overall miserable state of things, the No. 6 heavyweight women struggled in the morning heat on the Charles Saturday.And as a result of impending storm yesterday, the lightweight women were forced to cram two days of competition into one on Saturday. After racing two earlier heats in the day, Radcliffe had no gas left...