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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. The transport sector—which depends almost entirely on oil products, with 93% of all the fuel used in the sector being oil-based in 2010—remains the main driver of global oil demand as economic growth increases demand for personal mobility and freight.

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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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KAIST/Korea Polytechnic University The paper doesn't directly address the cost of the MHD, and with three motors and some other electronics in it, it's not likely to be super cheap. I'd expect it to cost at least USD $100, although perhaps it could get somewhat cheaper in volume.

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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Environmental costs are often not shown on financial statements because the bearers of such costs can be either particular individuals or society at large, are often both non-monetary and problematic to quantify for comparison with monetary values. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge. billion in 2005.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. From these scenarios, the authors derice a set of lessons: The falling costs of technology will deliver a low-carbon world. The result is a win–win for climate and security.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. You really have to package together something that allows you.to Earlier post.).

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Why Is Facebook Getting Into Cryptocurrency?

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The plan has undergone a major revamp, and the company now plans to launch by the end of the year , offering free person-to-person transfers both domestically and across borders. But Facebook's suggestion that the technology will help significantly reduce the cost of transactions seems unlikely, he adds.

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Powered By IEEE Program Saves Startups Money

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Running a startup isn't cheap. I saw a massive niche in the market that no one was filling, and I believe I am the right person to make products to fill that niche. LIFE SCIENCES DATA RESEARCH Joanne Wong launched SciosHub in 2020 to improve the data management, performance, and costs of conducting research in life sciences.

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