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SpaceX Starlink kit now available at select Home Depot stores

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SpaceX Starlink standard kits are now available at select Home Depot stores. Many potential customers have weighed in on Starlink’s availability at Home Depot. With Starlink, millennials can move out onto cheap land and build their own homes piecemeal with materials from [Home Depot].” I’ve thought about it.

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Electrovaya launches Li-ion residential energy storage system; 3 kWh – 20 kWh

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The battery stores power from the grid or from solar panels and stores it for later household use. For consumers subject to time-of-use charges, the EnergyBlock can be used to store off-peak power to be used later during peak times, lowering the amount of peak-rate costs for the user. Electrovaya Inc.

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Los Alamos-led study finds how to improve natural gas production in shale; hydrocarbon transport within nanopores

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Pressure management is a cheap and effective tool available to control production efficiency that can be readily adjusted during well operation—but the study’s multi-institution research team discovered a trade-off. The pores are miniscule—typically less than five nanometers—and poorly understood.

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Oleophobic hydrophobic magnetic sponge selectively soaks up oil, sparing water and wildlife

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The nanocomposite’s nanoporous 3D structure selectively interacts with and binds to the oil molecules, capturing and storing the oil until it is squeezed out. The OHM (oleophobic hydrophobic magnetic) nanocomposite slurry can be used to coat any cheap, commercially available sponge.

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Molten-Salt Battery Freezes Energy Over a Whole Season

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Especially for sources like wind and solar, which have discontinuous availability. Molten-salt batteries , as the name implies, use a liquid, molten-salt electrolyte, which freezes at room temperature, allowing the batteries to be stored in an inactive state. A long road, in other words, lies ahead.

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How Businesses and Building Owners Can Save on Energy Costs with Smart EV Charging and Energy Management

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Through demand-response programs , utilities enroll and compensate companies willing to reduce consumption when demand is greater than available supplies of electricity. This energy can also be stored in onsite batteries for use when grid energy is most expensive. Demand-response programs.

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QUB spin-out to commercialize to technique for production of MOFs; storage for natural gas vehicles

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By simply grinding together two cheap precursors in a basic milling machine, the MOF material is produced in a matter of minutes, in a powder form, ready for applications without further treatment, and without generating solvent waste. There are an abundance of sites where gas molecules can adsorb to the material.

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