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Electronically Assisted Astronomy on the Cheap

Cars That Think

Taking flats, however, requires an even, diffuse light source. I was mindful, though, to acquire calibration frames—“flats” and “darks” and “bias images”—which are used to compensate for imperfections in the imaging system. Darks and bias images are easy enough to obtain by leaving the lens cap on.

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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. The symptoms start with a check engine light (CEL) that sometimes comes on. It is something very cheap to fix and to inspect. The brake light LED can wear out on the 2004, 2005 models.

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

Baua Electric

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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The BYD Atto 3 and MG4 are great, but there is one cheap Chinese electric vehicle that’s not quite there yet…. Opinion

EV Central

Then I was lucky enough to drive the Ora in light rain, and wow, that was something. This a five-star NCAP rated car, and it has more bongs, whistles, alarms and flashing lights connected to its safety systems than the entirety of the control panels at Mission Control in Houston.

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Volkswagen XL1 Hybrid Deliveries Begin In UK, And It Ain't Cheap.

Green Car Reports

We always knew the Volkswagen XL1 wouldn''t be cheap. None of that sounds cheap. And as Volkswagen UK reveals pricing for the light-weight plug-in hybrid, we now know just how not-cheap it actually is: £98,515, or just under $169,000 at current.'

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Toshiba’s Light Sensor Paves the Way for Cheap Lidar

Cars That Think

The technology boosts light-cell efficiency, enables high-res Lidar using commercial camera lenses.

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New photocatalytic system converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel more efficiently than natural photosynthesis

Green Car Congress

The new system mimics a natural chloroplast to convert carbon dioxide in water into methane, very efficiently using light. It mimics the structure of a purple bacteria’s light-harvesting chromatophores (i.e. A paper on this team’s latest work was published in Nature Catalysis. over 24 hours.

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