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Intel rocks on power management.

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The "Enhanced Intel Deeper Sleep" technology, a feature of the company's new chips, lowers a processor's voltage below the Deeper Sleep state found in Intel's current family of mobile chips. When the processor is inactive, the system clears out some of the memory cache to help save power.


Coal power cells.

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Weibel's new design allows electricity to be generated at just 100°C, a temperature that is far easier to work with. But the efficiency of the current prototype device is "horrid”, he admits. At 7%, it is roughly one-fifth as efficient as conventional power stations in extracting energy from coal, he says.


NASA sends tank back to factory for RMA repair. Wink

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The orange tank was loaded onto a covered barge for the water trip to the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Officials said it might be used as a test bed and might eventually be modified to be used as the tank for Discovery's mission tentatively set for March 2006. The tank - called ET-119 - was originally set to fly into space on the third return-to-flight mission following the 2003 Columbia accident.

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