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  • Lights out in Silicon Valley

    Intel, Sun, and other Silicon Valley companies are responding to warnings from California's power companies—power down or risk blacking out.

  • Power struggle

    According to George W. Bush, "today the equipment needed to power the Internet consumes 8 percent of all the electricity produced in the United States." Is this, in fact, an accurate representation of reality present and future?

  • From cars to medicine, nanotubes may be miracle material

    They are stronger than steel and as flexible as plastic, conduct energy better than almost any material ever discovered and can be made from unexotic raw materials such as methane gas.

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