Published on March 16, 2010 by Technology Slice
Two Men Electrocuted By Windmill – Two men have been electrocuted and two are being flown to Melbourne with serious burns after a tractor knocked a windmill into power lines in far western Victorian today. Two of the workers died instantly when the structure hit overhead electricity cables around midday on the Rainbow Nhill Road, [...]
Tags: Alfred Hospital, Burns, Cables, electricity, Fourth Man, Horsham, melbourne, Midday, Old Man, People, Police Spokeswoman, Rainbow, Third Man, Two Men, Victoria Police, Windmill Power, Worksafe Victoria
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Published on February 28, 2010 by Technology Slice
Concepcion Chile – The death toll from a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Chile early Saturday has risen to 78, Chilean officials said. President Michele Bachelet declared a “state of catastrophe” and said the death toll would rise. “Without a doubt, with an earthquake of this magnitude, there will be more deaths,” the president [...]
Tags: catastrophe, Concepcion Chile, Darkness, Death Toll, Deaths, Doubt, electricity, Epicenter, Helicopters, Magnitude Earthquake, Michele Bachelet, Mobile Phone Services, Neighborhood, population, Santiago, Southern Chile, Telecommunications, Xinhua
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Published on February 22, 2010 by Technology Slice
Bloom Energy – In the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that’s inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. Well over 100 start-ups in Silicon Valley are working on it, and one of them, Bloom Energy, is about to make public its invention: a little power plant-in-a-box they want to put literally [...]
Tags: 60 minutes, Bloom Energy, Correspondent, electricity, emissions, Holy Grail, Innards, Invention, laptop, Lesley Stahl, Line Grid, power plant, Power Plants, Power Source, Silicon Valley, Sridhar, Start Ups, Transmission Line, Ups, World Of Energy
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Published on February 9, 2010 by Technology Slice
Another big winter storm was forecast on Monday for the U.S. mid-Atlantic still struggling to dig out from a blizzard that dumped two feet (half a meter) of snow and closed the federal government. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for Washington, D.C., beginning at noon/1700 GMT on Tuesday and continuing into [...]
Tags: barack obama, Blizzard, Decades, East Coast, electricity, Federal Government, Mid Atlantic, Montgomery County Maryland, National Weather Service, New Storm, Power Outages, Roofs, Snow Storm, Snow Totals, Snowfall, Storm Forecast, Suburban Washington, Two Feet, Washington D C, Winter Storm Warning
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Published on January 20, 2010 by Technology Slice
Spam is no recent phenomena. It has existed ever since the rise of the internet and will continue to do so. A recent study from McAfee has pretty much summarized the seriousness of the problems which spam creates. Did you know that as a result of spam alone, 33 billion kilowatts-hours of electricity was wasted in 2008? And this only accounts for America. Read on to find out how you can tackle the Spam problem.
Tags: electricity, Kilowatts, Mcafee, Phenomena, Rise Of The Internet, Seriousness, Spam Problem, Spammers
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