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SpaceX’s backup Dragon launch pad on track for 2023 debut

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Richard Angle) SpaceX’s answer to the problem was about as simple, elegant, and cheap as possible. LC-40 is SpaceX’s most productive launch pad by far, and the company intends to launch up to 100 times in 2023. More importantly, the same arm and tower would be used to escape Dragon and Falcon 9 in case of a minor emergency.

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

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Much of the motivation behind building new rockets or developing colonies on Mars is wrapped up in the rhetoric of our warming planet being something to escape from. Albeit slowly, entrepreneurs who helped build out the products and services over the tech boom of the past 20 years are now searching for technologies to address the crisis.

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Optimizing Fume Control for Robotic Welding

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Exhaust systems are cheap to install, but generally not the best option for the large volumes of fumes produced by robotic welding applications. Build Air Quality Into Production Lines From the Start. Ideally, air quality systems should be planned in tandem with production lines. Size Filters to CFM.

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Polymer microcapsules with liquid carbonate cores and silicone shells offer a new approach to carbon capture

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Current carbon capture technology uses caustic amine-based solvents to separate CO 2 from the flue gas escaping a power plant’s smokestacks. These permeable silicone beads could be a “sliced-bread” breakthrough for CO 2 capture—efficient, easy-to-handle, minimal waste, and cheap to make. —Vericella et al.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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If you’ve got an idea for a business or a new product, you usually don’t have to wait a decade to make sure it’s worth doing. But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. The thermostat chased me for 10 years. That is pretty extreme, by the way.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

HEV - The current generation of production Hybrids are 100% gas fueled vehicles with a few EV tricks like Regen Braking and no wasteful Idling. They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. See SEVA:Electric vehicle.

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Robot Gift Guide 2022

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The latest generation of TurtleBot from Clearpath, iRobot, and Open Robotics is a powerful and versatile ROS (Robot Operating System) platform for research and product development. All you have to do is make sure it can’t escape, then just let it loose and forget about it for months at a time. TurtleBot 4. Amazon Astro. Unitree.

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