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Hertz adds 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid to rental fleet

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The Sonata Hybrid is available to rent at airports including Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dulles International and Chicago, as well as cities such as San Jose, San Diego and Long Beach in California; Portland, Oregon; and Denver.

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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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It may not sound like a phenomenally large amount except the water and the river is already over-allocated. The present study narrows in on three key regions for water managers—the Colorado River headwaters; the greater California-Nevada region; and Texas, which gets nearly all of its water from within state borders.

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Junkyard Find: 1978 Chrysler LeBaron Coupe

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Here's one of those cars, found in a Denver boneyard recently. This generation of LeBaron was sold for the 1977 through 1981 model years, and it was available as a coupe, sedan and wagon. Leather was available , though it appears that Chrysler didn't use the Corinthian Leather name for cowhide in this car.

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Junkyard Find: Gray-Market 1981 Mercedes-Benz 380 SEL

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Today's Junkyard Find is one of those cars, found in a self-service boneyard near Denver, Colorado. The real gray-market cowboys bought the even more powerful 500 SEL, which wasn't even available here until the 1984 model year. I've also found (what was almost certainly) a gray-market W108 proto-S-Class. This car has one.

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Junkyard Find: 1975 Volkswagen Rabbit 4-Door

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Finally, the Audi 80 -based Dasher showed up here as a 1974 model, but it wasn't until the following model year that the first true water-cooled VW went on sale in North America. The closest I'd come was a '77 two-door in Denver , but then I hit pay dirt in a Northern California yard last week.

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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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Study on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities Highlights Importance of Geophysical and Technical Factors

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The metabolism of a city can be interpreted either primarily in terms of energy flows or more broadly including a city’s flows of water, materials, and nutrients. Data for some components are available, e.g., for urban transportation or electricity. A central concept in the scientific study of cities is that of urban metabolism.

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