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Capacity Factor Defined

A percentage that tells how much of a power plant's capacity is used over time. For example, typical plant capacity factors range as high as 80 percent for geothermal and 70 percent for cogeneration.

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Iceland's Crisis Threatens to Derail Bid for UN Council Seat

Published October 15, 2008, 6:01 pm, Bloomberg

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Iceland's financial crisis threatens the country's bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council in an election tomorrow.

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TechBits package

Published October 15, 2008, 2:59 pm, INO News

(AP:SEATTLE) Tactics reminiscent of a close presidential race seem to be popping up in Microsoft Corp.'s rivalry with Apple Inc.

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World Cup 2010 qualifiers: Robbie Keane keeps Giovanni Trapattoni revival rolling as determined Republic of Ireland ...

Published October 15, 2008, 2:25 pm, Guardian Unlimited

The Republic of Ireland maintained their undefeated record under Giovanni Trapattoni with a 1-0 victory against Cyprus

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It's a Breeze: European Firms Bring Years of Experience to U.S. Wind Power Market

Published October 15, 2008, 2:18 pm, Knowledge at Wharton

European wind-power firms see an opportunity in the United States' increasing interest in alternative energy. Indeed, the inroads that electricity-generating wind turbine technology has made in the U.S. are due in large part to the efforts of companies based in Europe. Gamesa, Siemens and others ply their expertise in a country where public policy has not consistently encouraged domestic ...

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Intel Ships Enterprise-Class Solid-State Drives

Published October 15, 2008, 1:19 pm, Centre Daily Times

Intel Corporation has begun shipping its highest-performing solid-state drive (SSD), the Intel(R) X-25E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive, aimed at server, workstation and storage systems. Unlike mechanical drives, the SSDs contain no moving parts and instead feature 50nm single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory technology. Systems equipped with these drives will not suffer from the performance ...

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Intel Ships Enterprise-Class Solid-State Drives

Published October 15, 2008, 1:00 pm, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Intel Corporation has begun shipping its highest-performing solid-state drive , the IntelĀ® X-25E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive, aimed at server, workstation and storage systems.

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MacBook Air gets Penryn and MBP17 gets minor bump

Published October 15, 2008, 10:38 am, ZDNet

Although they didn't get fancy glass trackpads or unibody aluminum frames (like Apple's other new notebooks) the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 17-inch received minor speed-bumps when Apple announced its new MacBooks yesterday. The MacBook Air went from: ...

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Letters to the editor

Published October 15, 2008, 9:51 am, Savannah Morning News

Elected officials have forsaken citizens

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AMR Corporation Reports a Third Quarter Profit of $45 Million

Published October 15, 2008, 8:36 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

AMR Corporation , the parent company of American Airlines, Inc., today reported a net profit of $45 million for the third quarter of 2008, or $0.17 per diluted share.

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SD Supercomputer Center and UCSD Announce Triton Resource

Published October 15, 2008, 6:21 am, Newswise

Three-Pronged Program to Focus on Data Analysis, Storage, and Scalable Clusters

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  • Drought could close nuclear power plants - Life- msnbc.com: Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.

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