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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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KAIST/Korea Polytechnic University The paper doesn't directly address the cost of the MHD, and with three motors and some other electronics in it, it's not likely to be super cheap. But doing so is wasteful, whereas the MHD potentially gives a smart new life to many old things.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. The number of people without access to electricity remained unacceptably high at 1.3 billion, around 20% of the world’s population. Click to enlarge.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. There is nothing special here!”

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Why are some EV chargers more expensive than others?

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We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. Therefore, each person must adapt to the technological changes to fit in. Phone number * Data processing * Yes, I give permission to use my personal data in accordance with the 50five Privacy policy. We want to save money. Get a free EV charger quote now >.

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The Sneaky Standard

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Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. It was wasteful, made being a hardware manufacturer more costly, and added to consumer confusion. Ebbing demand for personal computers has slowed innovation in advanced PCs.

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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Scarcity also creates opportunities to develop substitute materials or to recover materials from waste. The advantages many companies experienced in the last two decades from “cheap labor” in developing nations are likely to be eroded by the growth and power of the global middle class.

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How a Parachute Accident Helped Jump-start Augmented Reality

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Adjusted for inflation, they cost about US $8,000 and weren’t even a thousandth as fast as a cheap gaming computer today. That was the concept that got the military excited, and their interest wasn’t just for in-person tasks like surgery but for distant tasks performed using remotely controlled robots.

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