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Junkyard Find: 2006 Mazda Mazdaspeed6

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This is the second Mazdaspeed6 I've found in a car graveyard, after a 2007 in a facility near Denver, Colorado. The only transmission available in the Mazdaspeed6 was a six-speed manual. Here's one of the handful that made it out of dealerships, found in a self-service boneyard in Tulsa, Oklahoma a few months back.

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NASA satellite images highlight US air quality improvement with reduction of NO2

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They show how nitrogen dioxide concentrations during spring and summer months, averaged from 2005-2007, compare to the average from 2009-2011. More before-and-after images are available on flickr. The new NASA images also take a close up look at the Ohio River Valley, Northeast Corridor, and some populous US cities.

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Small modular reactor company Gen4 Energy will not pursue DOE SMR Licensing funding

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Gen4 Energy, based in Denver, Colorado, was founded in 2007, and is working in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory, under the DOE Technology Transfer program, to develop an advanced design nuclear reactor referred to as the Gen4 Module (G4M). Earlier post.).

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Researchers use IPCC AR5 models to forecast 10% drop in Colorado River flow in next few decades

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The study expands on findings published in 2007 in the journal Science that the American Southwest is becoming more arid as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns shift. The Colorado River Basin encompasses much of the American West, covering parts of seven US states and two states in Mexico. —Richard Seager, lead author.

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It’s in the powertrain!

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The Lucid Air is lauded for efficiency BY Gordon Hrodda, Member of Denver Electric Vehicle Council. Lucid is a new entry in the electric vehicle (EV) market, but the company—founded in 2007—has some of the leading engineers on power train efficiency. Lucid Air power train. (An There is nothing intrinsically expensive about a 163 lb.

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Paying Tribute to Former IEEE President Richard Gowen

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He helped found Dakota Power in 2007. He was active in the IEEE Denver Section and was a founding member of the IEEE Pikes Peak Section , in Colorado Springs. Now oral histories from all four GPS fathers— Brad Parkinson , James Spilker , Richard Schwartz , and Hugo Fruehauf —are available online.

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

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billion have been made available for transit improvements throughout the US. billion available for highway, transit, bridge, rail, shipyard and airport construction and repairs nationwide. CATS’ fleet and financial plans call for the replacement 1998, 1999 and 2007 year diesel buses with new diesel buses in fiscal year 2012.

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