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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. This means that storing and distributing energy is as important as its generation.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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For a deeper dive into Pong ’s design, see Hugo Holden’s article, “ Atari Pong E Circuit Analysis & Lawn Tennis: Building a Digital Video Game with 74 Series TTL IC’s ,” Dan Boris’s redraw of the circuit diagram , and Ricardo Ramos’s account of building a Pong clone.). Now you could compete directly against your friends and family.

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Personal: I Built the Ultimate Checklist for a Successful Road Trip

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Personal: I Built the Ultimate Checklist for a Successful Road Trip Gear Up to Hit the Road and Not Look Back This article may contain affiliate links. It prevented us from having to spend money purchasing pricey beverages from gas stations or convenience stores.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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Xcel president Chris Clark told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that four or five families buying EVs noticeably affects the transformer load in a neighborhood, with a family buying an EV “adding another half of their house.” In the next article in the series, we will look at the complexities of creating an EV charging infrastructure.

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Why the Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System

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content delivery networks (CDNs) used by streaming services such as Netflix help address the problem by temporarily storing content close to, or even inside, many ISPs. DOI number of a journal article or the ISBN of a book), and the Internet would handle forwarding the request to an available peer that has a copy.

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An inside look at how utilities view EVs: expanding electricity sales without adding new customers

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If someone only spends $100 with me yearly to charge their vehicle at one of my high-speed chargers, I’m still probably going to see in the neighborhood of an additional $400 or $500 in home charging. This article appeared in Issue 65: July-September 2023 – Subscribe now. Factor at a rate of 0.33

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