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Average New-Car Fuel Economy Falls As SUV Sales Rise, Gas Stays Cheap

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The average fuel economy of new cars sold in the United States fell once more in September, although not by much. mpg, according to the University of Michigan. Average new-car fuel economy continues to hover around 25 mpg, according to recent analysis.

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Spirit Airlines Is on Shaky Footing After Judge Blocks JetBlue Deal

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Unlike larger carriers like Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, Spirit flies mostly within the United States; its few international routes are relatively short. She said Spirit’s cheap flights and influence on other airlines’ prices gave Americans “an equal opportunity to travel.”

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10 Graphs That Sum Up the State of AI in 2023

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Large language models don’t come cheap While the power of large language models, like ChatGPT , has increased dramatically, the price of training such models has increased dramatically as well. On the bright side for AI research, government spending is up according to the report, at least in the United States. percent from 2021.

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Forecast: Algae-Based Biofuels Production to Reach 61M Gallons per Year by 2020

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Pike Research anticipates that, with 50% of all algae activity, the United States is poised to ramp up production the earliest among world markets. Both regions will benefit from rapidly expanding biofuels markets, ample land and water resources, and cheap labor, Pike suggests.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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The Technical Failure That Could Clear The Oil Glut In A Matter Of Weeks

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His assessments are based on regional (OPEC) developments, as production of oil and gas in the so-called cheap oil regions is also under threat. Presently, he holds several advisory positions with international think tanks in the Middle East and energy sectors in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. Utilities reconsidered batteries, not as stationary units but in EVs. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6 After earning a Ph.D.

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