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The Boring Company’s skeptics need to calm down about the LVCC Loop

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One thing that Boring Company critics typically forget is the fact that the LVCC Loop’s tunnels are incredibly cheap and quick to build. The other company was Austria-based Doppelmayr Garaventa Group, which proposed a traditional above-ground campus transit system estimated to cost $215 million to complete.

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When They Electrified Christmas

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Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. In 1910 GE changed its basic design to a round bulb, although still with the exhaust tip. In much of the world, December is a month of twinkling lights.

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New graphene-nanoflake/CNT catalyst shows high ORR, OER electrocatalytic activity for fuel cells, electrolyzers

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Researchers at Aalto University (Finland), with colleagues at the University of Vienna (Austria), CNRS (France) and Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (Russia), have developed a highly graphitized graphene nanoflake (GF)–carbon nanotube (CNT) hybrid catalyst doped simultaneously with single atoms of N, Co, and Mo (N-Co-Mo-GF/CNT).

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Can-Am Spyder First Drive: Embracing The Third Wheel

The Truth About Cars

While Can-Am offers the smaller, cheaper, and lighter Ryker with powertrains sized at 600 and 900 cubic centimeters, the Spyder F3 and RT come with a liquid-cooled, 1,330cc Advanced Combustion Efficiency (ACE) inline-triple manufactured in Austria by the BRP-owned Rotax. They’re not cheap machines.

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A Quantum of Sensing—Atomic Scale Bolsters New Sensor Boom

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The sensor uses an hourglass design, with one cloud in each half of the device separated vertically by 1 meter. MIT The nano-diamonds and the other materials used in the test are cheap. As such, the sensor can analyze the strength of Earth's gravity at two different heights at the same location.

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