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Darpa Wants Clean, Cheap Jet Fuel... From Coal

2008-09-12 12:36:00 by Noah Shachtman in Wired Security
 
The Air Force is flying everything from supersonic fighter jets to hulking cargo planes on a synthetic fuel blend, derived largely from coal. The problem is, that stuff is worse for the environment as the old-school fuel. And it's expensive Enter Darpa,which is kick-staring a new, $4.5 million research effort to figure out how to turn coal into...
 
Tags: coal, million research effort, synthetic fuel blend, supersonic fighter jets, liquid fuel cheaply, expensive enter darpa, air force, cargo planes, old-school fuel
 
 
 
 
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Beware! $4 + a gallon is bringing out the thieves in our communities.

2008-05-31 04:53:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...fuel tanks on our vehicles Neil Cavuto ran a story on Fox's "Cavuto World" today about thieves who are even going so far as to drill into tanks in an effort to steal a vehicle's fuel. Gasoline, Dielsel and even greasy cooking oil is being stolen. That's right - cooking oil I first heard that old cooking oil could be used to run a car on...
 
Tags: oil, oil tanks, thieves, fuel, fuel cap, tanks, fuel tanks, fuel thefts, thieves plenty
 
 
 
 
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A Continental nightmare

2008-06-13 03:35:05 by HASH0x8c0ef34 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...fuel surcharges they are already charging. They also charge if you want to fly stand by now, extra for exit seats, aisles, etc, etc. It is not one airline worse than another, they are all pretty bad Today's travel nightmare though comes courtesy of Continental Airlines. I rarely fly Continental because in coach I find their seats are to close...
 
Tags: denver airport, denver, denver houston flight, flight, lauderdale flight, continental, houston, continental airlines, luggage
 
 
 
 
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A Continental nightmare

2008-06-13 04:34:55 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...fuel surcharges they are already charging. They also charge if you want to fly stand by now, extra for exit seats, aisles, etc, etc. It is not one airline worse than another, they are all pretty bad Today's travel nightmare though comes courtesy of Continental Airlines. I rarely fly Continental because in coach I find their seats are to close...
 
Tags: denver airport, denver, denver houston flight, flight, lauderdale flight, continental, houston, continental airlines, luggage
 
 
 
 
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The hidden gas tax

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2008-06-27 12:02:59 by HASH0x8b3ae34 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...fuel surcharges What about the price of food and other goods? Have you noticed how much they are going up? Bananas were 49 cents a pound and are now 69 cents a pound. That is a huge increase. Our government says core inflation is not going up outside of energy costs and I am not sure I believe that. We are seeing huge increases in rice,...
 
Tags: gas, weekly gas bills, fuel, gas tanks, fuel surcharges, tax, gas prices, price, base price
 
 
 
 
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The hidden gas tax

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2008-06-27 13:02:43 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...fuel surcharges What about the price of food and other goods? Have you noticed how much they are going up? Bananas were 49 cents a pound and are now 69 cents a pound. That is a huge increase. Our government says core inflation is not going up outside of energy costs and I am not sure I believe that. We are seeing huge increases in rice,...
 
Tags: gas, weekly gas bills, fuel, gas tanks, fuel surcharges, tax, gas prices, price, base price
 
 
 
 
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In-Flight Wi-Fi on American as Soon as This Week

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2008-06-23 13:26:20 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...fuel to carry the Wi-Fi gear--probably a total of 200 pounds of dead weight and drag, based on information that Aircell and others have been giving out--I may have been close tot the mark when I suggested it was $50 for a cross country flight a few days ago The excellent Scott McCartney, author of The Middle Seat column in The Wall Street...
 
Tags: flight, cross country flight, wi-fi, jardin, lax-jfk costs, xeni jardin, jfk, american airlines launches, aircell
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Situations for Event Processing

2008-07-15 05:04:21 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...fuel is on the planes at the moment of our projected situation, so we can estimate the intensity of the explosion. So we need another model and our earlier very simple airplane model would inherit the jet fuel tank model our boss requires I hope from this simple example of model building that you will conclude that modelling is one of the...
 
Tags: model, airplane collision model, simple model, model simple, situations, hierarchical model, complex model, simple airplane model, real-time situation detection
 
 
 
 
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Employee Fraud Spiralling Out of Control in the UK

2008-09-09 10:08:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...fuel tanks on vehicles as petrol and diesel prices rise In " Personneltoday ", it is reported that employers have been put on "red alert" as the downturn in the economy is prompting employees to make ends meet by dishonest means. One figure that employers every where are bound to find shocking is the fact that employee fraud has cost UK...
 
Tags: employee fraud, businesses, businesses beware, million pounds, billion dollars, period, fold increase, fold, fuel price hike
 
 
 
 
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Playing With Homemade Explosives

2007-08-07 17:30:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai