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Starlink bid for subsidies to provide internet to rural areas denied by FCC

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Funding these vast proposed networks would not be the best use of limited Universal Service Fund dollars to bring broadband to unserved areas across the United States, the Commission concluded,” the FCC noted. As noted by officials in Ukraine, there were about 12,000 Starlink dishes that have been deployed in the country as of May.

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The Heart and the Chip: What Could Go Wrong?

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Anyone can purchase a drone, but there are regulations for using drones that vary between and within different countries. At the start of its war against Ukraine, Russia limited its citizens’ access to unbiased news and information in hopes of controlling and shaping the narrative around the conflict.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Beginning in the mid-1960s, the USDA had worked with NASA and labs at Purdue University and the University of Michigan to develop new ways to identify crops from high-altitude aircraft and satellites. The Soviet grain deal gave Landsat a new use: predicting crop yields worldwide The U.S.

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Green Hydrogen Cars: How They are Different?

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Unlike Lithium, hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe ( Lithium is the key component in electric vehicle batteries). Hydrogen production as mentioned above is based on electrolysis, a chemical process that produces hydrogen which is a universal, light, and highly reactive fuel. So what is green hydrogen?

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” Their research partnership ran for four years. That could change soon.

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Scientists create “buckydiamondoids”; union of buckyballs and diamondoids function as rectifier

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An international team led by researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have joined two unconventional forms of carbon—diamondoids and buckyballs—to create “buckydiamondoids”. They were then shipped to Germany, where chemists at Justus-Liebig University figured out how to attach them to buckyballs.

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