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Durante los últimos días estamos recibiendo mucha información sobre uno de los coches eléctricos más esperados, el Chevrolet Volt. Esta vez, General Motors ha publicado nueva información. Se confirma la primera batería de producción creada en las instalaciones habilitadas por GM.

Otro dato muy importate es que se ha dado a conocer el precio provisional que tendrá el modelo cuando llegue al mercado, unos 40.000$ pero desconocemos si se le aplicarán los descuentos de 7.500$ que ofrece el gobierno por la compra de un vehículo eléctrico.

En Europa este modelo podría costar unos 27.500€ apróximadamente lo que lo convertirá en un modelo no muy asequible aunque si se confirman todas sus prestaciones sería un coche a tener muy en cuenta.

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Fears of a new ice age not seen since the 1970s are arising in the aftermath of the “Climategate” scandal that has cast doubt on the legitimacy of scientific research forming the basis for the theory that mankind is causing an ultimately catastrophic rise in temperatures worldwide.

Accuweather meteorologist Joe Bastardi has produced a video suggesting the current frigid conditions in North America, Europe and Asia are very similar to the weather patterns in the 1970s that produced fears a new ice age was imminent.

In the video, Bastardi explains his theory that “weather goes in a lot of cycles, and we’re going to see a lot more of the cold trending here over the next 20 or 30 years.”

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Source: wnd.com

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GestureTek brings Eyemo gesture control to Android, Momo tracking engine for Windows Mobile originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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DirectX 11 has been chewed up and spit out by desktop GPUs over the past few months, but until CES 2010, laptops at large were left out of the raving. This week, AMD has introduced what it’s calling the world’s first mobile graphics with DX11 compatibility, and the Mobility Radeon HD 5870 — which just so happens to be featured in ASUS’ recently revealed G73jh — is leading the way. The HD 5800, HD 5700, HD 5600 and HD 5400 series are all new at the show, and each one comes with baked in support for ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology and helping tech-adoring geeks find their soulmates (as is clearly shown above). Hit the source link for more details on each, and figure on seeing these filter out to new ultraportables, mainstream rigs and gaming lappies in the seconds, days and weeks ahead.

ATI serves up DirectX 11-compatible Mobility Radeon GPUs, helps nerds fall in love originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Todos recordamos cuando a Romain Grosjean se le anunció que iva a sustituir a Nelsinho Piquet en Renault F1. Recordemos que el piloto ocupó un asiento titular sin haber realizado unos tests para comprobar su estado actual. Después de unas carreras, todos nos dimos cuenta que por el momento la Fórmula 1 le queda un poco alto a Grosjean.

Tras esto, son diversos los rumores que apuntan a que el piloto francés vuelva a la GP2 y sea sustituido por otro piloto. De momento, el nombre que suena con más fuerza es el de Jaime Alguersuari.

El nuevo director de Renault ha reconocido que el segundo piloto saldrá de uno de los pilotos de la empresa luxemburguesa. Por el momento, los nombres que toman más fuerza son Ho-Pin Tung o Jerome d’Ambrosio aunque incluso el hombre de todas las quinielas, Nick Heidfeld, suena para ese asiento.

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As global warming alarmists get more desperate, they’re turning to allies in the mainstream media to help promote increasingly strident protests that the world really is warming.

Nobody is happier to oblige than ABC News. On Jan. 8, “World News” anchor Diane Sawyer and weatherman Sam Champion worried that the cold weather engulfing much of the world just may be the result of climate change.

Then there’s ABC’s Bill Blakemore. The title of his Jan. 8 ABC News.com article – which could only be a mislabeled op-ed – pretty much summed up his take: “No, the Cold Doesn’t Mean No Global Warming.”

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Do those deeply patronising BBC science correspondents who try to explain to us (as if we were backward children), that “weather” and “climate” are very different things – and therefore we should not assume that the current Arctic conditions cast doubt on the global warming thesis – actually think that they are doing their bit for “objective coverage” of climate change?

Presumably even allowing five seconds of airtime for the question (”Why are we having the coldest winter in thirty years if the planet is becoming dangerously warmer?”) before rubbishing it, counts as fair and balanced coverage. Yes, Miss, I do understand that the words “climate” and “weather” have different definitions, but surely climate change must be expected at some point to have a palpable effect on the weather. (If not, what are we worrying about?)

Unfortunately, there is one categoryof simpletons who seem to have been seriously misled by the weather/climate confusion. Surely the under-supply of grit and rock salt for de-icing Britain’s roads is not unconnected to the fact that the municipal authorities actually believed the global warming propaganda and thought that we would never again be likely to have the sort of winter we are enduring now.

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Britain’s wildlife is being pushed to “the brink of a crisis” as sub-zero temperatures continue to grip the nation, according to conservationists.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is organising emergency feeding of several threatened species, including bitterns and cirl buntings.

The RSPB is also asking people to feed garden birds, which are struggling to find food in the freezing weather.

The harsh winter could hit bird numbers “for many years to come”, they warn.

The UK’s Met Office recorded the winter’s coldest day on Friday, when temperatures plunged to -22.3C (-8.1F) in Scotland’s Highlands.

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Producing all electric cars has become a must for a lot of important automaker, so Volvo got in line and came out with its own all electric C30. At the moment, the Swedish are testing their Battery Electric Vehicle.

"The Volvo C30 is the first model we will try out with electric power. This car’s excellent properties in city traffic and its relatively low weight make it particularly suitable, since electric cars are primarily expected to be used in and around cities and for d… (read more)

Innovalight, a company exploring the ability to print extremely thin solar cell materials on top of conducting substrates, has brought in $18 million in fourth-round venture capital, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., it is backed by EDB Investments, Vertex Venture Holdings, Apax Partners, ARCH Venture Partners, Convexa Capital, Harris & Harris Group, Sevin Rosen Funds and Triton Ventures.

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Though for a few years now most automakers have been struggling to save the Earth, not many decided to take an approach as direct as Audi’s: the German automaker plants 36,000 oak trees to fight CO2 emissions.

This year, Audi is taking matters into its own hands as it’s going to fund the planting of 36,00 oak trees, forming the basis of the Oak Forest CO2 Reservoir project. As you might imagine, the forest will be located in Kosching, near Inglostadt, Germany, where Audi has a bi… (read more)

Most people use YouTube in a rather straightforward way, they watch the videos that get passed to them and maybe search for a new movie trailer or a popular music video and that’s it. But for those more involved in the process the service transforms entirely and can be a lot more social than at a first glance. One of the ways in which users can be m… (read more)

We don’t generally run around plucking wireless headphones off their stands, but the CES Innovation Award here drew us in for a quick test job. In spite of the almighty din around us, these RS170 headphones delivered terrific noise insulation. They don’t feature any sort of active noise cancellation, but just popping the sealed cans atop our noggin was sufficient to neutralize a vast proportion of the mayhem around us. The sound too was impressive — certainly nothing unexpected given Sennheiser’s reputation. What was pleasantly surprising, though, was the $300 asking price and since these are already available we’ve been able to find them online for as little as $250. For that you also get bass boost and surround sound functions, but from our limited time with the set we’d say you’ll be getting some pretty awesome audio straight out of the box.

Sennheiser RS170 wireless headphones ears-on originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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American tuner/manufacturer Steve Saleen’s SMS Supercars announced it will be introducing the first official images of the 2010 SMS Camaro at the upcoming North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The vehicle is scheduled for a market launch in the second quarter of 2010.

"The SMS 620 Camaro will be the only Camaro authorized to benefit from my heritage and to incorporate innovations derived from my thirty plus years of racing and manufacturing experience. We are exc… (read more)

Whoever said that automakers need to go hybrid in order to get greener was dead wrong. The proof is right here: BMW Group, who’s line up does not include a hybrid car, was awarded the Greenest Manufacturer of the Year Award by UK’s Green-Car-Guide.com.

BMW was awarded as it had the biggest impact on lowering CO2 emission in the United Kingdom throughout the course of the last year.

In keeping with Green-Car-Guide’s core philosophy, the focus of our Award is on best… (read more)