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animated chart shows gas price fluctuations since 1993

August 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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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 [...]

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Tags: energy · europe · neato · russia · scary