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  2. Energy efficiency in transport - Wikipedia

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    This is around 1 ⁄ 5 (20%) of what is needed to power a standard upright bicycle without aerodynamic cladding at same speed, and 1 ⁄ 50 (2%) of that which is consumed by an average fossil fuel or electric car (the velomobile efficiency corresponds to 4700 miles per US gallon, 2000 km/L, or 0.05 L/100 km). [22]

  3. Charles Nelson Pogue - Wikipedia

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    Charles Nelson Pogue (15 September 1897 – 1985) was a Canadian mechanic and inventor who in the 1930s filed a series of US patents for a miracle carburetor (sometimes called the Winnipeg carburetor [1]) that would allegedly enable a car to attain 200 miles per US gallon (1.2 L/100 km; 240 mpg ‑imp); it was described as a vaporising carburetor or sometimes a catalytic carburetor.

  4. New York City water supply system - Wikipedia

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    The distribution system is made up of an extensive grid of water mains stretching approximately 6,800 miles (10,900 km). As of 2015, it costs the city $140 million to maintain these mains. [15] There are 965 water sampling stations in New York City. The water-sampling system has been in use since 1997.

  5. Aqueduct (water supply) - Wikipedia

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    The Catskill Aqueduct carries water to New York City over a distance of 120 miles (190 km), but is dwarfed by aqueducts in the far west of the country, most notably the 242-mile (389-km) Colorado River Aqueduct, which supplies the Los Angeles area with water from the Colorado River nearly 250 miles to the east and the 701.5-mile (1,129.0 km ...

  6. List of lakes by volume - Wikipedia

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    This article lists lakes with a water volume of more than 100 km 3, ranked by volume.The volume of a lake is a difficult quantity to measure. [1] Generally, the volume must be inferred from bathymetric data by integration.

  7. Lincoln Corporation Waterworks - Wikipedia

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    This became known as Hartsholme Lake and covered an area of 23 acres (9.3 ha), with a capacity of 40 million imperial gallons (180 Ml). An open channel, some 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long carried the water to Altham Terrace in Boultham, [6] where the water was filtered by two sand filters. It was then pumped through a 9-inch (23 cm) cast iron pipe to ...

  8. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California - Wikipedia

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    The program includes 60 miles (97 km) of new pipelines to convey the treated water across four regional groundwater basins, an industrial facility, and two MWD treatment plants. The program calls for a water treatment facility that would be one of the largest in the nation, producing 150 million gallons per day or 168 thousand acre-feet per ...

  9. Units of measurement in transportation - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, it is computed per 100 million miles traveled, while internationally it is computed in 100 million or 1 billion kilometers traveled. According to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Office of Traffic Safety Volume of traffic, or vehicle miles traveled (VMT), is a predictor of crash incidence.