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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Car Congress

MARTA anticipates that the power produced by these photovoltaic panels will be sold to Georgia Power under their Distributed Generation Contract Program. Connecticut Department of Transportation, Connecticut: $7,000,000. The largest PV installation in Georgia. Link Transit, Washington: $2,925,000.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

A memory capable of storing all the information for a single video frame; the contents of a frame buffer can be controlled by special software to produce or modify images. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Frame buffer. Local area network. Poor Adele,” Tesler said.

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