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The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law

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For a little while, lithographers managed to keep making progress using a clever trick: They put water between the lens and the silicon wafer to improve the focusing power of the imaging system. Mirrors could not achieve the same focusing precision as the previous lens-plus-water combination.

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Teething Babies and Rainy Days Once Cut Calls Short

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Her first, Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing (The MIT Press, 2018), explores the history and politics of push buttons. As a 1913 article on telephone service stated ominously, Water is one of the worst enemies. License to Spill is Rachel Plotnicks second book. of Rochester, N.Y.,

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Daniel Negreanu, Leonardo DiCaprio and More

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In 2015, he posed for a PETA campaign championing the earth-friendly diet and was later credited as an associate producer for a documentary about veganism in sports called The Game Changers (2018). is an avid collector of expensive things.

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looking for inwheel hub motors

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Durability & Environmental Stress When you embed a motor in the wheel, it’s exposed to heat, cold, water, potholes—whatever Mother Nature and bad roads can throw at it. Sealing & Protection: If water or debris sneaks in, kiss reliability goodbye. Do you need air or water cooled motors? In-Wheel Motor Challenges 1.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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Audi plans to cut water consumption in production in half by 2035

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Audi has included the economical and efficient use of water as a key aspect of its Mission:Zero environmental program. The company plans to keep its own water consumption to a minimum and stop using drinking water in vehicle production in the future. Drinking water is a valuable and scarce resource: 2.2

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Exeter team develops low-cost photoelectrode for spontaneous water-splitting using sunlight

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The nanostructured photoelectrode results in spontaneous hydrogen evolution from water without any external bias applied with a faradaic efficiency of 30% and excellent stability. One way this could be achieved is by using photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting which directly converts water and sunlight to solar fuel (hydrogen).