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Convert Oil Wells to Solve the Solar Storage Problem

Cars That Think

The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. Thermal energy storage is a known low-cost, low-risk approach for storing solar energy in the form of heat,” adds Codd.

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Quantum Randomness Now Boosts Everyday Security

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Prices have also dropped significantly and Foery estimates their chip only represents a few percent of the overall production cost of the Galaxy Quantum 2. I wouldn't have expected a few years ago that something you can buy in a store will have a QRNG inside," he said. millimeters across.

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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

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Unfortunately, the cost of buying instruments commercially severely limited how many trackers we could deploy. This will greatly increase the data bandwidth and reduce the cost of operation—currently about half the cost of building and operating each tracker goes to Iridium fees.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

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Or in other words we are reliant on Putin to keep the light on and at his mercy on the cost of the gas. Right now, production is low in Russia, so the cost has increased. The unit cost of Gas in the UK is 4 times the price of US Gas. – True cost of Smart Meters. The cost of panels continues to slide. No Fracking.

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UC Davis ITS study suggests hastening consumer adoption of plug-ins will require innovation on the sales side

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Power 2013 Sales Satisfaction Index (SSI) study data on customer satisfaction with new car dealerships and Tesla stores. Among their initial findings: PEV buyers universally report lower satisfaction with the dealer purchase experience than buyers of conventional vehicles. They also analyzed national and state-level J.D.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged EVs

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. That’s about two thirds of the leasing cost of a LEAF nowadays. Of course, the anti-EV crowd picked up on that.

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New Elon Musk essay: Tesla CEO’s current thoughts on technology and humanity

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The starting point for my thinking about clean energy is how to create and store energy sustainably and for the long term, and how to provide a constant source of power for the future of productive life. Thereafter, humanoid robots’ usefulness will increase yearly as production scales up and costs fall.

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