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Forget 6,000 horsepower; it's 8,000!
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Using measured torque and computer calculations, fuel-engine power is no longer a guess
For years, people have tossed around the figure of 6,000 as the amount of horsepower produced by supercharged, nitro-burning engines in Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars. And whenever that figure is mentioned, it is invariably followed by the caveat that it is an inexact number because no dynamometer can handle the output of such engines. So who needs a dynamometer? Using calculations and physical measurements, the overwhelming horsepower of fuel cars has finally been accurately determined to be a tick ...
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Cape towns opting for electronic water meters
Newspaper article from: Press of Atlantic City
; CAPE MAY POINT - The borough...to retrofit the entire town. The city sells water...two weeks. The three towns are still hashing out...whether the readings from Cape May Point and West Cape...would go to a server in Cape May. Though Cape May sells water to the two towns, ...
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Cape towns dip into land bank Questions remain on what's `open space'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...SANDWICH -- It's a Cape developer's dream...on the property, the town stepped in and bought...local property taxes that towns must use to preserve...all of the Cape's 15 towns. Now, after almost...open space"? Every town is giving its own, sometimes...Falmouth. "It allows 15 ...
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Cape towns are wound up for wind power, but lull persists.
Newspaper article from: Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)
; ...Doug Fraser Apr. 29--The Cape has plenty of wind, and at least nine of the peninsula's 15 towns want to take advantage of the...in exploratory funds to those towns since 2002, not a single town has erected a turbine. "Massachusetts...especially important as Cape towns approach ...
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Cape towns seek to extend room levy to private homes
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...more in taxes next year if some Cape Cod towns get their way. State...approved by voters in those towns in November, homeowners would...two- thirds of the 15 Cape towns that make up Barnstable County...year of recession." But some towns estimate that extending the...Revenue ...
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Cape towns need new dump site after Rochester incinerator fire.
Newspaper article from: Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)
; ...energy incinerator where most of Cape Cod's trash is taken. Cape...in West Yarmouth. Most Cape towns have contracts with the SEMASS...its own landfill -- all Cape towns eventually dispose of their...options available for the other towns' trash disposal needs, but...authorized ...
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Cape towns face biggest hit in waste water treatment cuts
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...treatment facilities would hit Cape Cod communities with particular...cuts are approved, the two towns will see only $13.8 million...things seem to be going for Cape towns; the state is eliminating most of their aid. Some of the towns have negative balances, in...Pollution Abatement Trust, ...
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SOME CHAFE AT SCHOOL FUNDING FORMULARELIANCE ON PROPERTY VALUE CALLED UNFAIR TO CAPE TOWNS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...burden in places such as Cape Cod where skyrocketing...values make blue-collar towns appear wealthy. The state...schools: The higher a town's real estate prices...funding on a city's or town's median income, which...systems. Three Cape Cod towns are among the 19 ...
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CONTAMINATION FORCES STATE TO CLOSE SHELLFISH BEDS IN ALL 15 CAPE TOWNS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...shellfish beds spanning all 15 towns on Cape Cod. John C. Clarke of the...Barnstable County that every town has been affected. The first...the state is working with Cape towns to alleviate problems. "There...having at least two areas in each town open, fishermen may have to...
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$6.8M FOR CONSERVATION GOES TO 9 CAPE TOWNS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; HYANNIS - Nine of Cape Cod's 15 towns have been awarded...15.5 million awarded to 37 towns around the commonwealth. The...self-help" grants to help towns buy wildlife habitats, watershed...36 acres divided between the towns, offering protection to Baker...for 82 acres in the center of ...
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Cape towns stomp out butts - Restaurant smoking bans spreading.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...may soon be going up at all Cape Cod restaurants. Two Cape communities...same. "I believe all of the towns will ultimately move towards...trying to pass ordinances in each town that would be identical, so...Brien said. "The individual towns always see each other as being...the boards of ...
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