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United Kingdom: Energy company scales back drilling over protest fears
2013-08-15 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Energy firm Cuadrilla on Friday announced it was cutting back its activities at a site in south England as over 1,000 protesters prepare for a six-day "action camp". The company, which specialises in hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, the controversial technique known as "fracking", will scale back its exploratory drilling operation at Balcombe in West Sussex due to concerns over the protest by "No Dash For Gas" campaigners. "After taking advice from Sussex Police, Cuadrilla is scaling back...
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Back to the future: Microsoft develops acoustic P2P file transfer tech for smartphones
2013-08-15 20:05:43| Extremetech
In a bold, technologically retrograde move that will strike fear into anyone who surfed the internet before the advent of DSL and cable, Microsoft Research has devised an acoustic file transfer protocol for mobile devices. That's acoustic, as in, the same way that your 56k modem connected to the internet via a stream of modulated bleeps and screeches. This technique, called peer-to-peer acoustic NFC, allows any two mobile devices to transfer files as long as they have a speaker and a microphone -- no special hardware, such as NFC, WiFi, or Bluetooth is required.
Back to Basics Paving Tracker
2013-08-14 19:35:32| PortlandOnline
Draft graph tracking grind, pave, and fog seal progress. PDF Document, 518kbCategory: Back to Basics
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Back to Basics Map Update
2013-08-14 19:31:46| PortlandOnline
Draft street maintenance map illustrating planned, and completed maintenance projects. Updated August 2013. PDF Document, 20,247kbCategory: Back to Basics
Low temperature combustion could drive efficient, clean diesel engines back into the limelight
2013-08-14 15:05:33| Extremetech
Low temperature combustion looks to put diesel back on the menu for environmental solutions.
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