Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor has unveiled the next-generation vehicle engineering concept, Nissan Common Module Family (CMF). The new platform is designed to allow the company to share up to 80% of its parts between new vehicles, to ...
Families gather for photos at Alamo Plaza after the 28th Annual H-E-B Tree Lighting Ceremony on last Friday,. The 55-foot tall fir tree was lit with 10,000 LED lights and with 450 ornaments. The event kicked off the holiday season followed ...
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When in the past they predicted the future, three key things were imagined: first, zeppelins would be tethered to every tall building. Secondly,c. And thirdly, every lightbulb would be cc. But while we all float to work in our zeppelins ...
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New York City has installed almost 1,600 LED luminaires along paths throughout its iconic Central Park – a move that will cut energy consumption associated with park lighting by 62 percent and result in roughly $30,000 in maintenance ...
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IDG News Service-Honda will begin tests next year of a small electric vehicle that uses a driver's tablet for displaying dashboard readings,audio,navigation and images from its rearview camera,it said Tuesday. The company's new"Micro ...
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Lighting LEDs are a route to energy efficiency that also allow creative effects that were not possible with incandescent bulbs and fluorescent tubes. But the output spectrum, like that of fluorescent tubes, is nothing like the sunlight ...
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Recycling bottles and jars is a concept we are all familiar with. The 750, 000tonnes that we put in bottle banks each year goes someway to offsetting the 2 million tonnes or so that we use for containers. Half as much glass (at least 1m ...
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Christie's fall impressionist&modern art auction achieves$205 million(£129 million/€160 million) Rare masterpieces by Claude Monet,Wassily Kandinsky and Constantin Brancusi led the November 7 Evening Sale of ...
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Once the lonely crusade of astronomers, the dark-sky movement is finding increasingly vocal support in the lighting community; and is gaining regulatory traction with the sustainability and conservation movements. Plants and animals, ...
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Cutty Sark Storm has launched to replace Cutty Sark Black and Blended Malt and, according to its maker, is the first new addition to the Cutty Sark range since Edrington bought the brand in 2010. Both Black and Blended Malt were sold in ...
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Refrigerated display lighting (RDL) represents one of the more perfect applications for LEDs. Because fluorescent tubes can be replaced with LED strips and reduce energy usage by 60%, retailers are beginning to implement LED case lighting ...
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If you find your car has been damaged, flooded, or are otherwise rendered inoperable by Superstorm Sandy, there are steps that need to be taken immediately. Assess the damage. If the car is parked in a flooded situation, or stalled in ...
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In the seven years since Hurricane Wilma swept through South Florida,unexpectedly shattering thousands of glass windows in the gleaming high-rises in Miami and Fort Lauderdale,a new generation of towers have reshaped the skyline. The ...
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GE Lighting Invests in Home Town GE Lighting announced the company will provide more than $200,000 in energy- and maintenance-cost saving LED lighting systems for two Cleveland landmarks—the historic West Side Market and Cleveland's ...
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Qatar-Part of the Qatar Foundation's Education City campus,Qatar National Convention Centre(QNCC),designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki and RHWL Architects of Berlin,is the largest in the Middle East.Located in the fast-developing ...