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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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While a wireless charger saves you from having to connect and disconnect cables repeatedly, the distance over which energy can be delivered this way is quite short. This wouldn’t be such a silly connection to make. rectifier and antenna , reflects how each element converts the electromagnetic waves into direct-current electricity.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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Customers could convert U.S. dollars into amazons—and, at least for the time being, they could convert them back, on demand, at a 1:1 exchange rate, perhaps for a small fee. The amazons could be converted frictionlessly into dollars. I like Bezos bucks or BBs , but that might be a bridge too far, even for Jeff Bezos.)

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

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IEEE Spectrum has a full write up on the kit , but since that article was written Hart has come out with a revised version that's even easier to connect to a modern PC, so you can download programs without needing to toggle them in bit by bit!

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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April 10, 2009 11:21 am Link Kaare- Lithium Ion batteries do not contain lead (unless it is in solder connections) and do not contain acid. April 10, 2009 10:06 pm Link I make, convert and drive EV’s and have for 13 yrs. None of the new electric cars are planning to use old-tech lead acid batteries. — Jeff U 6.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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“Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? In effect therefore, the more energy convertion stages there are the less efficient the process is. “It would help stabilize the energy flows, so you don’t come up against the limits of the grid.

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