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PA Turnpike considers solar-powered EV charging stations

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With cheap energy generation, one high cost of EV charging can be removed, assisting organizations in achieving profitability. The Turnpike was motivated to begin placing solar after a state auditor informed the organization that it needed to cut costs and pay down its $13.2 What do you think of the article? billion debt.

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Baker Institute expert suggests assumptions about oil’s influence on politics in the Middle East should be reversed

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Assumptions about oil’s influence on politics in the Middle East should be reversed, according to a new article from an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Instead of oil buttressing autocracy, the article argues that autocracy among oil exporters buttresses oil by encouraging consumption. —Jim Krane.

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The Coming Construction Boom

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We are starting to see large buildings with lots of plants as part of the environmental control systems, making city buildings look like living organisms. Imagine using cheap wind- and solar-generated electricity to pull carbon out of the atmosphere and turn it into feedstock for large-scale 3D printing of building components.

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

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Last year, Jeff Bezos created a US $10 billion fund to make investments in organizations fighting climate change. Nonprofits are already using cheap sensors to pinpoint heat islands in cities, or neighborhoods where air pollution disproportionately affects communities of color.

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Tips for Choosing a Car Rental in Dubai

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Exploring the Wheel Possibilities in the Middle East This article may contain affiliate links. Moreover, don’t chase excessively cheap prices. As you may know, Dubai is a metropolis where people come from all over the world—some as tourists, others to earn money, and others simply choose this city for a temporary stay.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. The result was a demonstration project, a task organized by Alec Brooks , manager of ACP’s tzero production.

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Sandia team boosts hydrogen production activity by molybdenum disulfide four-fold; low-cost catalyst for solar-driven water splitting

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Still, while HER in organisms evolved with time and increasing complexity, artificial HER aims to replicate the same with minimalism and simplicity. Molly is dirt cheap and abundant. A cornerstone of the challenge is to mimic the function of natural hydrogenase enzymes, which catalyse HER in living systems. —Stan Chou.

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