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China seeks to increase natural gas consumption: EIA report
2014-08-20 01:00:00| Power Technology
The Chinese Government is making further efforts to rely more on natural gas in order to meet its rising energy consumption, and cut down its dependence on coal and oil, with an aim to reduce air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions.
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International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research Critique 144: Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Endometrial Cancer
2014-08-18 14:40:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
In a new analysis from the Nurses' Health Study, investigators have related repeatedly-assessed long-term alcohol intake, and related the cumulative average intake over time to the risk of invasive uterine cancer.
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Fish Consumption Advisory Issued for Lake Ouachita
2014-08-16 11:40:56| Waste Management - Topix.net
Little Rock - The Arkansas Department of Health is issuing a fish consumption advisory for Lake Ouachita.
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DirectX 12 reduces power consumption by 50%, boosts fps by 60% in new tech demo
2014-08-13 19:32:42| Extremetech
At its Siggraph 2014 booth, Intel is showing off one of the first public demos of DirectX 12 and Direct3D 12 -- and the improvement over older graphics APIs, such as DirectX 11, is really quite startling. The exact same demo under DirectX 12 consumed 50% less power than the DirectX 11 version. In a similar demo, the higher efficiency and lower overheads of DX12 allowed for a 60% increase in frame rate over DX11 while consuming the same amount of power. After an awful lot of talk about the benefits of Mantle, DirectX 12, and OpenGL NG, it's very exciting to see an example of the actual real-world gains of these new graphics APIs.
Comment - UK alcohol consumption is falling, did anyone tell the health lobby?
2014-08-12 16:41:43| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Every six months or so, a report or a piece of research is released about the UK's so-called alcohol "epidemic". The national media jump on it, which sets in train much teeth-gnashing over what should be done.
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