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Precision Cooking Fires Up the Crowd

2014-05-14 15:59:17| TechNewsWorld

A new crowdsourced Kickstarter project has blasted out of the gate and racked up more than $1,000,000 in funding -- its goal was a modest $100,000 -- with 34 days to go. The project? The Anova Precision Cooker. At first glance, the Anova Precision Cooker looks like a massive electronic thermometer with a plug-in cord. It's used for the sous-vide style of cooking.

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Ahead Of Wildfire Season, Scientists Study What Fuels Fires

2014-05-09 22:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: As fire managers in the drought-stricken Southwest gear up for another long and expensive wildfire season, federal fire scientists are trying to better understand the physics behind what makes blazes spread. At a U.S. Forest Service fire lab in Riverside, Calif., a team of scientists is conducting daily experiments over the next few months on different fire behavior conditions. They hope to hand off their findings to fire managers, who have to make the quick decisions on where to deploy resources...

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Australia: Coalmine fires and other disasters predicted by State government report

2014-05-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sydney Morning Herald: The Morwell fire has raised questions about risk acceptance among mine operators. The Victorian government has been warned that mine failures in the Latrobe Valley, where a coal fire shrouded Morwell in smoke in February, are almost certain to happen every year. Land slips at Latrobe Valley open-cut coalmines can also cause ''multiple fatalities'', shut down crucial economic infrastructure and devastate the local environment, according to the Emergency Risks in Victoria report, released by...

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HMS Iron Duke's new radar system fires missile for first time

2014-04-16 01:00:00| Naval Technology

HMS Iron Duke, the UK Royal Navys type 23 Duke-class ship, has successfully test fired a Seawolf missile from its Artisan medium-range 3D surveillance radar for the first time off the Dorset coast.

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