The good people at FlowingData (I’m really getting hooked on that site) have put together a neato animated bar chart to show the ups and downs of gasoline prices across eight U.S. regions since April 1993. Back then, the price the pump was a mere $1.07 per gallon — or a piddling 28 cents per [...]
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animated chart shows gas price fluctuations since 1993
August 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: consumer · energy · history · neato · stats
russian floating nuclear plant will set sail in 2010
June 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Russia plans to launch the world’s first floating nuclear power plant in 2010 — a two-reactor barge the size of a football field. The idea is to sail it around the Arctic Ocean bringing electricity to isolated coastal towns, where shipping coal or other fossil fuels is inefficient and unprofitable. The ship will store its [...]
