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Used Car of the Day: 1987 Nissan 300ZX

The Truth About Cars

Today's UCOTD comes to us via Seattle -- it's a 1987 Nissan 300ZX that someone tried and failed to steal. The ad copy is a difficult read -- there's a period between just about every word, for reasons that escape me -- but I've managed to ascertain that the car has about 177,000 miles on it and is a five-speed manual coupe.

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Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Without the Magnets

Cars That Think

Seattle-based. Attached to a spacecraft, the end of a Z-pinch reactor could be left open to allow the fast-moving plasma to escape, releasing a jet of material that could propel a spacecraft forward. But tokamaks aren’t the only path to fusion power. Zap’s reactor could also be applied someday to. advanced space propulsion.

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Enterprise Rent-A-Car Adds 5,000 Hybrids to Nationwide Fleet

Green Car Congress

Louis; Seattle; and Washington, DC. Customers in these markets will be able to choose from several makes and models of hybrid vehicles including the Toyota Prius, Nissan Altima, Ford Escape and Toyota Camry. Rental costs will vary according to market conditions; rates also will vary at locations throughout the country.

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Researchers present new explanation for the long-range transport of PAH pollutants

Green Car Congress

The predictions are based on the assumption that the particles are like liquid spheres, whose fluidity allows PAHs to escape. But they don’t escape, and one recent advance has helped to pin down why PAHs are remaining stuck in the particles. Again they used α-pinene for the SOA.

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How EV Charging Building Codes Help Future-Proof New Developments

Blink Charging

Thanks to building codes that mandate safety systems such as sprinklers and fire escapes, tragedies like the Triangle fire are less common. Many fires that could have been quelled easily with sprinkler systems instead razed buildings and led to many deaths, such as during the infamous 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

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The Story Behind Pixar’s RenderMan CGI Software

Cars That Think

Watching movies and TV series that use digital visual effects to create fantastical worlds lets people escape reality for a few hours. Carpenter had been working in the computer-aided design group at Boeing , in Seattle, where he developed procedural modeling. In many cases, it can be difficult to tell what’s real and what isn’t.

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V2G Test Drive

Plug In Partners

The project, which will convert six Ford Escape Hybrids to PHEVs equipped with V2G technology so each can charge and discharge power to and from the grid, is one of the nation’s first real-world demonstrations of the emerging technology. in Seattle, Wash.; The project is a joint collaboration between Xcel Energy ; Hybrids Plus Inc.