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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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CHIPS and Science Act set to pump tens of billions of dollars into chip manufacturing in the United States, the question has come up: “Who is gonna work in these new fabs?” The Practical Power of Fusing Photons Chad Hagen Silicon solar cells are relatively cheap and plentiful, but they miss out on a lot of energy in sunlight.

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Does the US Senate Have The Balls To Stand Up For Your Children? Not Without YOU Forcing Them To

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Here on the local scene in the South Bay of Los Angeles our local elected officials are doing their homework, understand the tipping point we now stand upon and are acting to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by completing their carbon inventories and creating Climate Action Plans to get us to the safe zone of 350 ppm of CO2.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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dollar as the dominant medium for exchange in the United States? Here I outline the rationale for such a private digital currency and explain how one might soon take off in the United States. The fraction that involved buying actual stuff (goods and services) is so small that it’s hard to measure.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. Utilities reconsidered batteries, not as stationary units but in EVs. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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EV Chargers for All!

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The transition to EVs in the United States will hit a deep pothole unless the more than one-third of the 124 million households that rent can be convinced to purchase an EV. Gillian Flaccus/AP Renters in the United States are now spending 30 percent of their income on rent, leaving little to finance the purchase of a vehicle.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

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We started as a call center and made over one million phone calls to fleets all across the United States. So it started compelling us to look in certain areas, and we arrived at LAX [Los Angeles International Airport]. Washington state has an abundance of power very cheap from all the hydro.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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The midtown Manhattan “wiretap nest,” as the 55th Street listening post came to be known, remains one of the largest and most elaborate private eavesdropping operations ever uncovered in the United States. To be sure, the failings of New York state wiretap law were legion. New York City private investigator and attorney John G.