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Cheap solar panels from China are all over Europe – and everyone is freaking out

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Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Europe is installing more solar panels than ever before, thanks to a flood of cheap Chinese solar panels, driving installations by 40% last year. European local solar panel manufacturers have reached a crisis in that they say they can’t compete with cheap imports and oversupply.

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Tech: The Whats and Hows of MAP Sensors

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Tech: The Whats and Hows of MAP Sensors A Critical Component for Engine Efficiency This article may contain affiliate links. PSI), due to the vacuum created by moving internals. If this persists, you risk severe damage to the pistons, connecting rods and other engine internals. pounds per square inch [PSI)].

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Unico's Battery Testing Enters a Competitive Industry

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At the International Battery Seminar & Exhibit held 12-15 March in Orlando, many of the world’s leading battery makers, test equipment manufacturers, and theorists gathered to talk about advances in the field and to present new products claiming to make the battery production process quicker and cheaper.

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Junkyard Find: 1970 Volvo 145

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Plenty of curmudgeonly Silicon Valley tech-industry workers drove old Swedish cars to work for decade after decade. The old-school aftermarket AM radio shows "BC" (which meant " B road c ast") and "KC" (which stood for " k ilo c ycles" rather than the kilohertz nomenclature established in 1960 by the Systéme international d'unités ).

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China says it will ‘rein in’ the flood of EVs coming our way

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Back in September, the EU launched an investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the EU.

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Facebook Steps Toward Cryptocurrencies

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But Novi seems unlikely to be able to capitalize on that value, as it has committed to charging zero fees for international transfers. And it's far from clear that people drawn in by cheap remittances will also use the app for everyday payments, particularly when they have to be made in cryptocurrency rather than local currency.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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