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Kurt Busch conserves fuel for Nascar win at Pocono Raceway

Edit Stuff 07 Jun 2016
Kurt Busch stretched his fuel to the chequered flag to win the Nascar race at Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania. Busch was urged by his team to save fuel and go hard for the win on the final lap on Monday (Tuesday NZ time) ... Without a caution to help conserve fuel, he nursed what was left in the tank for the last 30-plus laps of green flag racing to snap a 34-race losing skid....

Fuel Joins IPhones and Barbie as Stuff China Makes for the World

Edit Bloomberg 07 Jun 2016
After supplying the world with everything from Victoria’s Secret lingerie to iPhones and Barbie dolls, China is now producing fuel that’s finding its way to pumps across the globe ... That includes jet fuel sent to Europe last year, gasoline that went to Nicaragua in May and another cargo currently headed to the Panama Canal ... The government also started allowing the independent refineries to import crude and export fuel....

Sorry, leaves — we figured out a way to do photosynthesis better than you

Edit Grist 07 Jun 2016
The team, lead by professor of energy Daniel Nocera, has created a new-and-improved version of a system that converts solar energy into fuel at a rate 10 times more efficient than the fastest-growing plants ... Engineered microbes eat the hydrogen to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuel for transportation or conversion into more mainstream fuels....

Obama Administration Withdraws Dangerous Fossil Fuel Leasing Near Chaco Canyon National Park (Sierra Club)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jun 2016
Farmington, NM -- Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) withdrew three parcels of public land totalling 2,122 acres near Chaco Canyon National Park from consideration for fossil fuel development ... In response, Sierra Club's Beyond Dirty Fuels campaign Director Lena Moffitt released the following statement.....

New green norms to make power, fuels, cars costlier

Edit The Times of India 07 Jun 2016
Consumers will have to shell out more for power, fuel and cars in a few years as these industries begin to pass on the burden of technology upgrades being put in place for meeting increasingly stringent environmental and emission norms ... Motor fuels could become costlier by 70 paise or more per litre as the country moves to Bharat Stage-VI - akin to Euro-VI - grade fuels by April 2020....

'Harassed' cop attempts suicide

Edit The Times of India 07 Jun 2016
CRPF constable N Satish of 2013 batch was intercepted by police on Tank Bund as he was about to jump into the lake on Monday morning ... of New Bhoiguda and A Manjula, 25, of Aghapura when they tried to commit suicide by jumping into the lake near Lepakshi on Tank Bund....

Kurt Busch conserves fuel for a win at Pocono Raceway

Edit The Wichita Eagle 07 Jun 2016
Kurt Busch stretched his fuel to the checkered flag and won the Sprint Cup race Monday at Pocono Raceway. Busch was urged by his team to save fuel and go ... ....

Canada sustainable fund manager bets heavily on alternative fuel cars

Edit Reuters 07 Jun 2016
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian portfolio manager Martin Grosskopf is betting heavily on alternative fuel vehicles overtaking traditional cars as a pillar of the no-fossil-fuels allocation strategy of... ....

Kurt Busch has enough in tank for victory

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 07 Jun 2016
Busch not only had enough fuel left to win but enough for victory burnouts and a celebratory lap around the track....

OSCE representative is aware of 'street art protest' with cardboard tank

Edit Topix 07 Jun 2016
Dunja MijatoviA , OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, is aware that an artist is being tried in Armenia for organizing an unusual 'street art protest' in Yerevan. Civil activist Artak Gevorgyan is facing up to two years in prison for driving a cardboard tank through Yerevan streets and hitting the metal gates of the National Security Service last summer ... ....

Navy training builds firies' resilience (Royal Australian Navy)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jun 2016
(Source. Royal Australian Navy). Volunteer 'firies' from Baldivis Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade have conducted fire-fighting training at the Royal Australian Navy School of Ship Safety and Survivability onboard HMAS Stirling ... 'Training such as 'helicopter crash-on-deck' suddenly becomes a fuel truck crash with a running fuel fire while the superstructure fire-fighting unit becomes the defensive structural fire ... (noodl. 33974712) ....

Recycling & Solid Waste Center Adds Fats, Oils and Grease (FOG) Collection Station - May 26, 2016 (Tompkins County, NY)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jun 2016
(Source. Tompkins County, NY) ... The FOG collection station is part of the newly redesigned food scraps drop spot at the facility at 160 Commercial Avenue in Ithaca ... The FOG will be processed by Buffalo Biodiesel and recycled into biodiesel; a renewable, biodegradable fuel that is produced domestically. Biodiesel is a cleaner-burning, sustainable replacement for petroleum diesel fuel ... (noodl. 33974697) ....

Afghanistan's lapis lazuli is a 'conflict mineral'

Edit Topix 07 Jun 2016
An international anti-corruption watchdog says Afghanistan's war is being fueled by the country's mining sector, with armed groups - including the Taliban - earning $20 million from illegal mining of lapis lazuli. A report by Global Witness released on Monday says that lapis lazuli, a blue stone almost unique to Afghanistan, should be classified as a "conflict mineral." ... ....
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