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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

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I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. It needs the regular service but we won’t need to worry about any expensive part braking. The symptoms start with a check engine light (CEL) that sometimes comes on. Priuses can burn oil. Code P0016.

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I took a Tesla new Model Y Demo Drive – Here’s what I learned

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The addition of the light bar on the front and the taillight bar that glows were two modernized designs that Tesla chose to implement on this vehicle. Interior Changes and Higher Quality Materials In the past, I’ve been sort of hesitant to buy Teslas because, for $35,000+, I felt like some of the interior parts were cheap.

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Cheap Sensors for Smarter Farmers

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With the new, cheap sensors, farmers will be able to collect data on their farms without worrying about the variability. Whiting and his team solved this issue by encapsulating the sensor parts using beeswax or soy wax. By reading the reflected light, it can tell if the plant is dehydrated or not.

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Bio-inspired molybdenum sulfide catalyst offers low-cost and efficient photo-electrochemical water splitting to produce hydrogen

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The optimized photo-electrochemical water splitting device uses light absorbers made of silicon arranged in closely packed pillars, dotted with tiny clusters of the new molybdenum sulfide catalyst. Progress has so far been limited in part by a lack of cheap catalysts that can speed up the generation of hydrogen and oxygen.

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First snapshots of CO2 molecules trapped in MOFs shed new light on carbon capture

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Scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have taken the first images of carbon dioxide molecules within a molecular cage—part of a metal-organic framework (MOF), with great potential for separating and storing gases and liquids. The MOF they studied is called ZIF-8.

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Rhodium Group estimates US GHG fell 2.1% in 2019, driven by coal decline

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Emissions from buildings, industry and other parts of the economy rose, though less than in 2018. Natural gas generation made up much of the gap last year, as it has consistently in recent years, due to extremely cheap gas prices. Far less progress was made in other sectors of the economy. That turned a 5.6%

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New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

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In contrast, the LSP method not only saves energy but uses aluminum, a cheap and abundant metal. They did so by coupling a specially modified gas cell holder from the TEM to a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer, allowing the team to measure parts-per-millions concentrations of carbon dioxide.