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Tesla and SpaceX/Starlink are aiding Hawaii’s recovery efforts: Elon Musk

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Elon Musk has confirmed that Tesla and SpaceX/Starlink are doing their best to help Hawaii as it recovers from devastating wildfires. Photos shared on social media suggest that Starlink kits are being deployed on the island to provide free internet to those affected by the Maui catastrophe.

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SpaceX says it is no longer losing money with Starlink production

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SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites, brings total launched over 5,000 Starlink has also been used to help those involved in natural disasters, like the recent wildfires in Hawaii. SpaceX shipped more than 650 Starlink kits to more than 40 organizations to help support recovery efforts for those who lost their homes due to the fires.

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"Spirit of DC" PHEV All Around America Update. from EVJerry back in DC with the "Spirit" Hanging out at the Beach!

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And there is Robb Protheroe's offer to integrate the new Li-ion battery pack with the PluginSupply kit and system, once shipped by DPS to Petaluma, CA. See Dr Walter Wu's email regarding gifting the "Spirit of DC" in the Feb 2009 timeframe. See also 11 October email exchange below. The "RVJerry" Rationale: 1.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form. It was based in part on the Alohanet, a packet radio network developed at the University of Hawaii in the late 1960s.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., He started his explorations with chemistry. in Rochester, NY.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said. Mr. Thesen said that a factory in Turkey was being refurbished to be able to produce 100,000 electric vehicles a year.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Hermance speculates that "At the battery conference held in June in Hawaii it was said that Lithium Ion is about 3-5 years away for hybrids and another 5-8 years away to get to a rational price point." For that reason, he says Toyota isnt working on a plug-in hybrid. CarList.com, August 15, 2005 ) But Toyota Motor Corp.

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