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Could Renewable Bamboo Be As Strong As Carbon Fiber For Lightweight Cars?

Green Car Reports

Carbon fiber now appears poised to enter the mainstream of automotive materials, but a less high-tech material could be waiting in the wings as well. Bamboo could be the next carbon fiber, according to a new article on BBC Autos (only visible in U.S., apparently).

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Elon Musk gives Bill Gates one piece of advice in fight against climate change

Teslarati

Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave Bill Gates one piece of advice in his fight against climate change, and to many fans of the tech CEO, it will be pretty familiar. In April 2022, texts between the two tech giants were leaked , and Musk got straight to the point, asking Gates if he still held a sizeable $500 million short position against Tesla stock.

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

Cars That Think

A 2019 analysis by researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, found that training a very large deep learning system could potentially emit as much carbon dioxide as five cars over their full operational lifetimes. In a January 2020 interview with the BBC, Yoshua Bengio said that "AI's abilities were somewhat overhyped.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

That is not to say that a private digital currency created by one of these tech giants would create social value. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer. Not far behind, in terms of monthly spending, are Twitch and LinkedIn. Google also has a huge base of both consumer and business users. Apple is another obvious example.

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

Cars That Think

Get The Z Factor With An RC2014 This is the one entry in our retrocomputing gift guide I haven't tried myself: I've never been a Z80 guy, being more influenced by the 6502-based BBC Microcomputer than the Z80-based ZX Spectrum, which were the two most popular British-designed computers I had access to in the 1980s.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. and Chrysler. .’s

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. In the Indian car world, the profit per vehicle is quite good, but the number of vehicles sold has reduced, thanks to production constraints forced by chips shortage. The company had hired 20 Innovas for media transport, two journalists per car. Go Electric yourself.

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