Teslarati

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Communications from individual dishes travel up to a nearby Starlink satellite, which then routes those communications to a local ground station connected to the rest of the global internet. First, the dishes require quite a lot of power to run. Regardless, Ukrainians will face two additional challenges with Starlink.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 17, 2009

The idyllic island kingdom of Tonga. My friend Elizabeth is from the South Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga, an exotic locale long fixed in my memory with images of Polynesian paradise. Tonga has sadly been in the news lately after an inter-island ferry sank on August 5 drowning over 70 people. Mine too of course.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Reeling from a crushing shortage of semiconductor chips for vehicles, carmakers also face another looming crisis: producing enough batteries to drive the global pivot towards electric vehicles. We are committed to turning those rocks into metal using renewable power and with zero solid waste," Shesky says.

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