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SpaceX delivers truckload of Starlink dishes to Ukraine, as promised

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Communications from individual dishes travel up to a nearby Starlink satellite, which then routes those communications to a local ground station connected to the rest of the global internet. One such ground station located in central Poland might barely cover a sliver of Western Ukraine.

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DeepGreen lifecycle analysis argues for sourcing EV battery materials from deep-sea polymetallic nodules

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Taking that as a baseline, if 1 billion cars are replaced with EVs (the current global light-duty vehicle parc is soe 1.3 million square kilometers in the Pacific Ocean roughly 500 miles south of Hawaii. —“Where Should Metals For The Green Transition Come From”. The CCZ is an abyssal plain spanning 4.56

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