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Build a Passive Radar With Software-Defined Radio

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A reference antenna picks up a signal from, say, a cell tower, while a surveillance antenna is tuned to the same frequency. The reference and surveillance signals are compared. Building off the demand stimulated by this activity, a number of manufacturers have started making premium, but still relatively cheap, SDRs.

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$67 Oil Has All The Majors Converging in Argentina

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That means consumers are not reaping the benefits of cheap fuel. This is so important, strategically,” said the outgoing CEO of state-owned YPF, Miguel Galuccio, referring to regulated prices, according to the WSJ. Prices for light oil are set at $67 per barrel and natural gas prices fixed at $7.50 per million Btu (MMBtu).

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Underground Coal Gasification Company In Partnership to Test Alkaline Fuel Cells for Power Generation

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million into AFC Energy stock at a price determined in reference to the market price at the time of exercise. The picture of success is that you have a UCG field producing cheap and efficient UCG gas, with this UCG gas piped aboveground a short distance on the same gas field, adjacent to the fuel cell installation.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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AQDSH 2 refers to the reduced form of AQDS. I think the chemistry we have right now might be the best that’s out there for stationary storage and quite possibly cheap enough to make it in the marketplace, but we have ideas that could lead to huge improvements. Cell schematic. Huskinson et al. Click to enlarge. —Michael J.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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If you don’t build something like that, people can’t refer to it. Those guys don’t have the wherewithal to finance a battery-electric truck that costs twice as much as a diesel truck, and they’re usually buying third- or fourth-owner diesels anyway, that are super-cheap. As the new hire, I got to ask them a question—this was 2012.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Auerbach’s calculations project that “ In order to meet the administration’s renewable energy goals, $217 billion will be required by 2012. In a recent survey conducted by New Energy Finance which reached 106 institutional investors with $1 trillion under management, “ 75% of the them expect to increase their renewable investments by 2012 ”.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

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0:00 / 2:45 Driving the Chevy Volt In total, Chrysler plans to come out with 5 electric car models by 2012. Further out, a Fiat-based extended range electric compact SUV - which will also be offered as a gasoline-powered vehicle - is planned for early 2012. More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed.