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Electronically Assisted Astronomy on the Cheap

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To avoid that, I built something (based on a design I found in an online astronomy forum ) that clamps to the focus ring and allows precise adjustments using a small knob. Taking flats, however, requires an even, diffuse light source. My next purchase was a modified gun sight to make it easier to aim the camera.

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You can forget a cheap Japanese electric car in Australia: Red-tape ends Mitsubishi’s dream of sub-$30K eK SUV

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Releasing a scathing press statement, Mitsubishi criticised Australian Design Rules (ADRs) for being “prohibitively” expensive that made it “uneconomic” to introduce its most affordable vehicles in their current form due to the amount of time and money needed to make it ADR-compliant.

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Rivian Shows New Travel Kitchen Accessory In Recent Event

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The new $1,400 Rivian Travel Kitchen is designed to fit the R1, R2, and R3 vehicles. It comes with a two-burner induction cooktop, a small drawer, LED lights, and more. Though popular, the automaker discontinued the product a while back, but it recently announced a replacement, which could become the next best thing.

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Ram Updates Heavy Duty Pickups for 2025

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This mid-cycle refresh takes the form of new grilles and lighting signatures, a (relatively) cheap way to update a model without expensive retooling of fender shapes or other hard points. Lighting treatment on those elephant-ear towing mirrors looks slightly different but that could just be a visual trick.

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PNNL team develops electrolyte for high-voltage sodium-ion battery with extended longevity

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Cheap and abundant, sodium is a promising candidate for new battery technology. Here we report a rational electrolyte design to suppress the SEI dissolution and enhance NIB performance. This study enables high-voltage NIBs with long cycling performance and provides a guiding principle in electrolyte design for sodium-ion batteries.

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Portable Analyzer Brings Blood Testing to Rural Areas

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Seeing the need for a more transportable system that can analyze blood samples in rural and remote areas, two researchers in India have developed a new design that is simple, affordable, and easily deployed anywhere where a source of electricity is available. Many existing devices in the laboratory use light to analyze blood sample.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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However, although the state has made considerable progress decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the rate of emissions decline appears to be slowing, due in part to a spike in transportation emissions attributed to an increase from light-duty vehicles. But the effects of these efforts seem to be reaching a plateau.