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AEP'S Appalachian Power Unit to Install First U.S. Use of Commercial-Scale Energy Storage Technology (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
American Electric Power and two corporate partners finalized an agreement today to install the first megawatt-class advanced energy storage technology to be used on a U.S. distribution system.

Neck Deep in Toxic Gumbo - Independent Media TV (Independent Media TV)
As the government drags its feet, the unknown number of human bodies decomposing in the New Orleans floodwaters are becoming hosts for a horde of diseases. The bodies continue to fester and rot, potentially contaminating the city they used to call home.

SEPT. 12-18: From the Register s archives (The Des Moines Register)
Sept. 12, 1960: A Des Moines pedestrian wanted equality with automobiles but was unsuccessful on this day. The pedestrian found an empty parking space on Fourth Street near Court Avenue, spread newspapers along the edge of the sidewalk, dropped 10 cents into the parking meter and settled in for a nap. Only a couple of minutes had passed before Police Officer Tony Mihalovich came up and asked

Classic automobiles parade through history (Lansdale Reporter)
Hundreds of classic cars rumbled through downtown Lansdale Sunday as part of the borough s 17th annual car show and parade.

Get Ready to Pay More for Plastic Products; Soaring Natural Gas Prices Push Up Costs for Chemicals and Resins (RedNova)
Consumers could start paying more for everything from automobiles to lawn chairs, as prices of raw materials used to make plastics rise at a rapid clip. Blame much of it on resins and chemicals materials used to make plastics that have surged as much as 40% in price since June.

Metro Parks event marks 28th year (The Morning Journal)
BROWNHELM TOWNSHIP -- For the last 28 years, groups of people have shown other people a way of life that would now be considered challenging. It was a time long before life's everyday conveniences of automobiles, microwave ovens and computers.

Advanced High Temperature Resistant Plastics Rapidly Replace Metal Motor and Gear Components (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
High temperature resistant plastics are increasingly being used in motor and gear parts -- hot fuel systems and air manifolds of automobiles, industrial machinery products, and aviation and marine engine segments -- environments that would have degraded previous generation polymers.

Fuel Cells Coming to an MP3 Player Near You? (TechNewsWorld.com)
Fuel Cells Coming to an MP3 Player Near You? Industry analysts observed that fuel cells have long been predicted, but have never made it to market. They also pointed to improvements in today's batteries, which do not typically present energy problems, even with heavy mobile phone usage.