How Aston Martin Builds the Gorgeous One-77 Supercar The first station sees the installation of unglamorous but essential components including the maze of wiring harnesses and fuel lines. Once the plumbing's in place, it's time for station number two, where parts like the fuel filler and heat shields (some of which are finished in gold, for maximum reflectivity) are fastened. The chassis becomes more visually interesting at stage three, where the instrument panel gets bolted onto the sub-assembly, along with the myriad switches, dials, and stretches of upholstery that constitute the interior. Volkswagen to Make Limited Edition of 1-Liter Car (282 MPG!) in 2010 VW's 282 MPG Super Fuel Efficient Car The 1-Liter car has been around in prototype form since 2002 and greens everywhere have been drooling at its 282 miles per gallon fuel economy (or 1 liter of gasoline per 100 kilometers, hence the name). VW has finally decided to make more and sell them, and a limited edition (estimated in the thousands) should start selling in 2010. Volkswagen L1 Concept Car Technical Specs The One-Liter car (or 1-Litre, over in Europe) weights only 660 pounds. The body is made from carbon composites and it is shaped to be extremely slippery, giving it a coefficient of drag of only 0.16 ("the average car comes in around 0.30 and the Honda Insight had a Cd of 0.25").
Why the Clean Tech Boom Went Bust Wind Power: Plummeting natural gas prices now make this option comparatively expensive.Photo: Dan Forbes John Doerr was crying. The billionaire venture capitalist had come to the end of his now-famous March 8, 2007, TED talk on climate change and renewable energy, and his emotions were getting the better of him. Doerr had begun by describing how his teenage daughter told him that it was up to his generation to fix global warming, since they had caused it.
MindView Mind Mapping Tutorials Welcome to the MindView 5 tutorials page. These videos are intended to teach you the basic fundamentals of MindView as well as an introduction to some of the more advanced features. For more advanced tutorials, subscribe to our YouTube channel or view the Upgrade Features page. The following videos will stream from YouTube in HD. If you are not able to view the videos, an alternate download link is provided in WMV format. 1968 Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale The Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale is an extremely rare and cool road car built by Alfa Romeo. Only 18 are reported to have been made, plus three design studies based on the 33 Stradale the 33.2, Iguana and Carabo. The Stradale, first built in 1967, was based on the Autodelta Alfa Romeo T33 racing car.
Magenta Ain't A Colour A beam of white light is made up of all the colours in the spectrum. The range extends from red through to violet, with orange, yellow, green and blue in between. But there is one colour that is notable by its absence. You should have seen a green afterimage, but why is this significant? The afterimage always shows the colour that is complementary to the colour of the image. Express-Scripts.com / Registration Version 3.0 Last Revised: 3/13/2014 This Privacy Policy is provided by your plan sponsor's pharmacy benefit manager (or underwriting insurance company as applicable) or, if not applicable, Express Scripts Holding Company (in either case, "we", "us" or "our") to establish guidelines that govern collection of information from all visitors ("you" or "your") who use the publicly available pages of the Express-Scripts.com website located at Registered Members or Registered Beneficiaries of the Member Website, and those users who have been granted authorized access to non-publicly available portions of the Express-Scripts.com website (individually and collectively, the "Site"). The Site may be accessed via the World Wide Web, via a mobile application, or through a website hosted by a third party or one of our affiliated companies. "Members" (or "Beneficiaries" in the case of the TRICARE program) are individual participants in a prescription drug benefit plan.
Photos: 50+ years of Japanese concept cars Here is a selection of concept cars designed by Japanese automakers from 1957-2009. Toyota Proto, 1957 Toyota Publica Sports, 1962 Nissan Prince Sprint 1900 Prototype, 1963 The Man in the High Castle The Man in the High Castle (1962) is a science fiction alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It won a Hugo Award in 1963[1][2] and has since been translated into many languages. Nineties Collectibles: Mazda RX-7, Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1, GMC Syclone/Typhoon - Feature - Auto Reviews Shopping Tools Advertisement America’s “Lost Generation” of doggy cars (1974–1990) officially came to an end with the introduction of the Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 in March 1989 in Geneva, Switzerland. Suddenly, fast was good again and an 85-mph speedo was 100 percent too slow.
Achieving a Vintage Look Through Color Tones in Photoshop CS by Guest Contributor Anna Gay Photographers are often striving for a “vintage” look in their photos, and even though there are endless ways of achieving a vintage look, there are a couple of characteristics to keep in mind. First of all, the color tones in a vintage photo often lean towards either a blue or a red hue, or a cross-processed look. Vintage photos also have an element of noise or grain that can be achieved through textures, and also a certain amount of vignetting around the edges of the photo.