1. Second Warmest October for Globe
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The combined global land and ocean surface average temperature for October 2008 was the second warmest since records began in 1880, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
2. Will Detroit's cash crisis kill the electric car?
data: 19.11.08
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(Reuters) Call it an economic and environmental murder mystery in the making: Will a cash-strapped Detroit kill the electric car -- again? Stung by an association with gas-guzzling SUVs and pushed to the brink of failure by plunging sales, U.S. automakers have been touting efforts to roll out more fuel-efficient small cars, gas-saving technology and gas-free electric vehicles...11/18
3. Scientists Recommend Permanent Method For Carbon Sequestration: Turn CO2 into Rock
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(Popular Mechanics) A breaking study indicates that 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year could be locked up in rock formations that cover half of Oman - finally putting a dent in global greenhouse gases. And the same principle could be transferred to rock formations in shallow seas...11/17
4. Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory
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(RxPG News) ...We've detected far more anti-matter than anyone else has ever measured in a laser experiment, said Hui Chen, a Livermore researcher who led the experiment. We've demonstrated the creation of a significant number of positrons using a short-pulse laser. Chen and her colleagues used a short, ultra-intense laser to irradiate a millimeter-thick gold target...11/17
5. Supercomputers Are Bright Spot Amid Turmoil
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(Wall Street Journal) Supercomputers may be the dinosaurs of the computing industry, but they are showing surprising signs of life. New chip technology and industry alliances are bringing rapid advances to these high-performance machines, feeding demand at a time when the personal computer industry is sagging. In one development, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Tuesday is expected to announce an alliance called Project Hyperion with ten companies -- including Dell Inc., Intel Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. -- to build a big supercomputer that will serve as an industry test bed...11/18
6. Here's what Jack Dongarra had to say
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(Knoxville News Sentinel) Dongarra, the UT prof and director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory and Center for Information Technology Research, is one of the folks who puts together the world rankings of supercomputers every six months...11/17
7. A federal affair: NNSA Corps of Engineers
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(Knoxville News Sentinel) It probably seemed odds to some folks, if indeed they noticed, that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for managing the federal contracts to build a couple of new facilities at the Central Training Facility in Oak Ridge. The CTF is where security police at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant and other paramilitary forces in Oak Ridge go to train for worst-case security events...11/17
8. How good is Jaguar?
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(Knoxville News Sentinel) Well, apparently it's off-the-charts good. I talked today by telephone with Thomas Zacharia, ORNL's scientific computing chief, who was at the big supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas. Even though Jaguar was No. 2 in the world rankings on the Top500 list released today (just a bit behind Roadrunner), Zacharia said he couldn't be happier with the performance of the new Cray XT5 system...11/17
9. Knoxville, Tenn., Firm Puts Expertise to Work on Green Issues
data: 19.11.08
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(iStockAnalyst.com) Plenty of researchers are probing the depths of molecular biology to uncover the secret to brewing cellulosic ethanol. But biofuel production isn't only about the science. When building a plant for producing gas from grass, a pretty basic question arises: Where should it go? The University of Tennessee and partner DuPont Danisco have begun building a demonstration plant for making cellulosic ethanol at an industrial park in Vonore, a site chosen for its proximity to a variety of transportation routes and the rural swaths of land where switchgrass will be grown...Strata-G, with 120 employees, is using its expertise in logistics and experience with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and UT to carve out a niche in the growing green sector.11/17
10. Micro Fuel Cells Get Closer to Replacing Batteries
data: 19.11.08
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(PhysOrg.com) Mobile electronics have the potential to offer digital luxuries beyond our imagination, but they will never get there on today's lithium ion batteries. Power has been the weak spot in the development of more advanced mobile electronics, and the need for power will become even more important as devices feature more energy-sapping applications...11/17
11. GM, Ford, Chrysler Travel To Capitol Hill
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(NPR) Congress and the White House say they want to do something to help the nation's automakers, which are close to insolvency. Executives from Ford, GM and Chrysler will be on Capitol Hill Tuesday to plead their case...11/18
12. Supercomputer plays major role in DOE's 'vision
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(Oak Ridger) A Cray XT high-performance computing system at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the world's fastest supercomputer for science. The annual ranking of the world's top 500 computers (top500.org) will be released Tuesday in Austin at an annual international supercomputing conference...ORNL Director Thom Mason said the real value of the new machine will be measured by the scientific breakthroughs that will now be possible...11/17
13. ORNL's Jaguar is No. 2 fastest computer in the world
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(Knoxville News Sentinel) Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar is the world's second-fastest computer, according to the Top500 rankings released Monday. The Oak Ridge computer, a Cray XT5 system, recently broke the petaflops barrier - more than a quadrillion mathematical calculations per second - and was declared the fastest machine for open scientific uses. Overall, it is the second-fastest machine behind the IBM Roadrunner system at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The Roadrunner is used mostly for national security programs, including classified analysis of nuclear weapons issues. According to the Top500 Web site, Roadrunner was slightly enhanced since its startup in June and "narrowly fended off a challenge" from ORNL's Jaguar...11/18
14. ORNL's computer guru talks economic development
data: 19.11.08
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(Trading Markets) Earlier this year, before Volkswagen made its huge announcement, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Thomas Zacharia was among those who made the trek to Chattanooga to meet with VW execs and sell them on Tennessee. Zacharia, who helped build ORNL into arguably the world's top center for scientific computing over the past decade, spent about 40 minutes with the VW officials. He talked about computing and transportation research and the possibility of collaborations between the automaker and the national lab...11/17 ORNL's Jaguar is No. 2 fastest computer in the world (Knoxville News Sentinel) Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar is the world's second-fastest computer, according to the Top500 rankings released Monday. The Oak Ridge computer, a Cray XT5 system, recently broke the petaflops barrier - more than a quadrillion mathematical calculations per second - and was declared the fastest machine for open scientific uses. Overall, it is the second-fastest machine behind the IBM Roadrunner system at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The Roadrunner is used mostly for national security programs, including classified analysis of nuclear weapons issues. According to the Top500 Web site, Roadrunner was slightly enhanced since its startup in June and "narrowly fended off a challenge" from ORNL's Jaguar...11/18
15. NASA Satellites Capture Images of Southern California Wildfires
data: 19.11.08
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Images from NASA satellites give a wider perspective of the full extent and devastation of the wildfires raging in Southern California.
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