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SpaceX Starlink kit now available at select Home Depot stores

Teslarati

SpaceX Starlink standard kits are now available at select Home Depot stores. Many potential customers have weighed in on Starlink’s availability at Home Depot. The majority of consumers SpaceX bringing Starlink’s standard $599 kit would make the tech more accessible and, hopefully, significantly decrease delivery estimates.

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Wildcat Discovery Technologies is building a US plant for LFP cathode and next-gen battery materials

Charged EVs

Now the company is building a US plant to produce nickel-free and cobalt-free cathode materials. It offers similar performance, but manganese is very cheap, and it operates at a higher voltage, which enables a significant increase in energy density. LMFP is a version of LFP in which some of the iron is replaced by manganese.

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Build Your Own Hi-fi Ear Defenders

Cars That Think

But this tech gets you only so far: Noise cancellation works just for relatively low frequencies, and the overall hearing protection that earbuds can offer is also relatively limited. I was on the hunt for another cheap small MEMS mic that could handle louder sound sources. I found the Vesper VM2020 , with an impressive AOP of 149 dB!

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own. E-bike availability and ridership have exploded. Most components are inexpensive and readily available. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. Fast forward a dozen years.

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New CA smart grid law will help solar and fix the grid by… simply replacing wires

Baua Electric

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law directing the state to upgrade its electrical transmission system through use of new smart grid technologies and by replacing old wires with newer, high-tech ones in order to get the state ready for increased renewable electricity generation.

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Wildcat Discovery Technologies is building a US plant for LFP cathode and next-gen battery materials – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Now the company is building a US plant to produce nickel-free and cobalt-free cathode materials. It offers similar performance, but manganese is very cheap, and it operates at a higher voltage, which enables a significant increase in energy density. LMFP is a version of LFP in which some of the iron is replaced by manganese.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own. E-bike availability and ridership have exploded. Most components are inexpensive and readily available. In 2009, I wrote in these pages about my efforts to. Fast forward a dozen years.

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