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2024 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Review – Cheap(ish) Speed

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The EcoBoost is available in coupe – “fastback” in Ford speak – or convertible body styles and in base or Premium trims. The base price for an EcoBoost Mustang is $30,920 -- $39,020 for a convertible. Opt for a Premium fastback, and you’ll be starting at $36,445, while the Premium convertible is $41,945. It’s not perfect.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Mini Cooper S

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A six-speed manual was standard equipment. There were convertible versions of the Cooper and Cooper S available as well. They're cheap, quick enough to be fun, and junkyard parts are plentiful. New for 2007 was this 1.6-liter and its Chrysler/Rover ancestry. This engine was rated at 175 horsepower and 177 pound-feet.

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New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust, one of the main sources of carbon emissions in the atmosphere. Credit: NIST.

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Russian researchers develop wasteless joint processing of electric furnace and ladle slag to produce pig iron and clinker

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Although residues of these slags are stored in dumps, these residues can be converted into valuable industrial products by interaction between the slag components. For this purpose, borate glass, a cheap waste material that also requires processing, was added to it. to complete melting—held and then slowly cooled.

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Unico's Battery Testing Enters a Competitive Industry

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Battery manufacturers will have to turn out many more units suitable for EV demands while still performing the array of tests they must carry out to assure automakers and consumers that the batteries they’re turning out meet basic standards for performance, safety, and durability. One possible application is the used vehicle market.

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Researchers show economic, environmental and grid-resilience benefits of converting diesel trains to battery-electric

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Improved battery technology plus access to cheap renewable electricity open the possibility of battery-electric rail. Here we show that a 241-km range can be achieved using a single standard boxcar equipped with a 14-MWh battery and inverter, while consuming half the energy consumed by diesel trains. Popovich, N.D., Rajagopal, D.,

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Caltech’s SSPD-1 Is a New Idea for Space-Based Solar

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The primary purpose of the MAPLE experiment was to demonstrate wireless energy transfer in space using flexible, lightweight structures and also standard CMOS integrated circuits. So, comparable in power to the signals that come down in standard communication satellite operations. Ali Hajimiri: I would call it a detection.

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