Maybe, after last year's slump in real wages, which were hurt by a needed freeing of fuel prices, 2007 will see renewed gains for ordinary Indonesians.

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The fuel cell technology, which is being developed with support of the U.S. Office of Naval Research, will be tailored to integrate with solar PV panels, which will reduce the amount of fuel needed to support forward operating military bases.

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For shipping, alleviating glass bottles significantly reduces the weight and the shape allows the wine to be packed more efficiently which results in a reduced amount of fuel needed to ship the wines.

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Trouble is the Big Three will still need more money to help them meet the technology investments needed to comply with last year's energy bill, which requires them to meet higher fuel-efficiency standards by 2020.

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The answer lies in its plant for reprocessing spent fuel, built partly to take used fuel from Germany and Japan (which largely paid for its construction) and partly to produce the plutonium that was once expected to be needed as fuel for fast-breeder reactors, in Britain and elsewhere.

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