Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer. A Battery for Heat Made from Sand Noted chemical engineer Donald Sadoway is quoted as saying: “If you want to make a dirt-cheap battery, you have to make it out of dirt.”

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Cars That Think

MAY 18, 2023

This proliferation of satellite constellations coincides with the emergence of off-the-shelf components and software-defined radio—both of which make the satellites more affordable, but perhaps less secure. That may be because one of the temptations of LEO is the ability of relatively cheap new hardware to do smaller jobs.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 22, 2022

tried out in locations including California, Finland, and Kenya. But that means control of these networks often boils down to how many high-powered computer chips you can afford or how much crypto you hold. The idea has become popular in Silicon Valley as an antidote to the job-destroying effects of automation, and it has been.

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