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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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Moore is best known for his 1965 prediction, which would become known as Moore’s Law : the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would grow exponentially while the retail cost of computers would decrease. The company created the first commercially available microprocessor, the 4004 , in 1971.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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Remember when the dot.com bubble burst in 2000 and, seemingly overnight, some companies ceased making millions hand-over-fist? With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh

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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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Read the C&EN research here Lithium right now is very expensive and Sodium is quite cheap. Also sodium is universally available. The cycle life is crazy, as you can see here they claim more than a lakh cycles on their cell, while LFP cells have around 2000 cycles. So there are lots of advantages for sodium-Ion batteries.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

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The pipeline had been completed at a cost of €9.5 The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. Transactions related to the trade of energy are excluded. Europe still has to pay for its energy or face a disastrous cutoff.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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In the most recent auction, the Market Monitor Report found that 51 bidders competed fairly for the 40 million carbon allowances, and that no one bidder acquired more than 12 percent of the overall pool of available allowances. Factors Determining Abatement Costs. HOW TO ESTABLISH A SUCCESSFUL REGIONAL. The Stringency of the Cap.

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