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The world’s first ever wave farm went live at the end of September in Agucadoura, off the coast of northern Portugal. Three wave energy converters resembling Soviet submarines generate electricity with hydraulic rams driven by waves. The farm was designed by Pelamis Wave Power, which hopes to increase the farms productivity by adding an additional 25 wave energy converters that could potentially power 15,000 homes.

Waves powering homes? Remarkable, but how does it work?
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So the XBox 360 got their Gears of War, the Wii got its Zelda, and the PS3 got its Resistance: Fall of Man. These are the major three launch titles (excluding the 360) for the “next-gen” consoles that aren’t so next-gen anymore. Resistance:Fall of Man willreceive an update very soon and we have just been informed some of what that update will do. The update will fix some minor problems with the humongousmultiplayer mode that Resistance offers online player. Humongous=40 players. It will better balance the offerings of weapons and in turn make themultiplay gameplay more reliant on team strategy rather than n00b spraying (which we all hate). This information was received from Eric Ellis, lead multiplayer programmer from Insomniac.

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