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$11 billion later, high-speed rail is inching along

2014-08-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: High-speed rail was supposed to be President Obamas signature transportation project, but despite the administration spending nearly $11 billion since 2009 to develop faster passenger trains, the projects have gone mostly nowhere and the United States still lags far behind Europe and China. While Republican opposition and community protests have slowed the projects here, transportation policy experts and members of both parties also place blame for the failures on missteps by the Obama administration...

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The Craft Beer 'Bubble' Is Not A Thing, Move Along

2014-06-25 19:43:36| Beverages - Topix.net

From the Consumerist , to The Examiner , to the Philadelphia Inquirer , and all manner of publications in between, writers have been heralding the existence of a 'craft beer bubble' in both shock and speculation.

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Focus Fusion: Has cheap, clean Earth-saving fusion power been right under our noses all along?

2014-06-12 19:26:18| Extremetech

While the world's only major fusion power effort -- ITER -- continues to trundle along, with an eventual first-fusion date of 2027 at a cost of more than $20 billion to taxpayers, there's a small lab in New Jersey that says it can produce fusion power within a year, with a total spend of just a few million dollars. To be honest it sounds too good to be true -- but rest assured that Focus Fusion, at least to my eyes, is the real deal. This isn't some kind of magical, inexplicable witchcraft like cold fusion: Focus Fusion appears to be based on cold, hard science. This could actually be it.

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