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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass.

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NSF leads $400M federal effort to boost advanced wireless research

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Among the factors driving the need for improved wireless technologies are the prospects of vehicle-to-vehicle communications to support self-driving cars and increase highway safety; remote surgery and telemedicine to improve patient care; and immersive video and virtual reality content to enhance personal experiences and productivity.

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Are Autonomous Buses the Answer for Efficient Transportation and Reducing Emissions and Fuel Consumption?

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Driverless cars are poised to decongest personal car traffic, shrink our eco footprint, free up parking spaces and reduce the frequency of collisions by about 90%. Arizona-based startup Local Motors has unveiled Olli ( earlier post ), a 12-passenger minibus that may hit university campuses in Las Vegas and Miami later this year.

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6G Is Years Away, but the Power Struggles Have Already Begun

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Ericsson (Sweden), Nokia (Finland), Samsung (South Korea), and Huawei (China) build the radio units, baseband units, and other hardware and software that go into cell towers and the wired networks that connect them. Past wireless generations coalesced around universally agreed-upon standards relatively smoothly. While many U.S.

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Can Electronics Become Compostable?

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Sustainable electronics is becoming an increasingly important topic around the world, and today we’re going to be talking with Liisa Hakola , a senior scientist at VTT in Finland , about the European Union’s Sustronics program aimed at this very topic. And well, in Finland, the forest industry has typically been quite strong.

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Is Worldcoin a Crypto-currency for the Masses or Your Digital ID?

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That’s because Worldcoin , the company behind the project, wants to create the most widely and evenly distributed cryptocurrency ever by giving every person on the planet the same small allocation of coins. What would happen if they gave every person on the planet an equal share of a new cryptocurrency? Bitcoin since they launched.

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