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Elon Musk claims Tesla robotaxi will be as cheap as the bus, does the math work?

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Elon Musk is claiming that Tesla Robotaxi will be as cheap as the bus, which “won’t be needed” when it “rolls out unsupervised full self-driving.” The post Elon Musk claims Tesla robotaxi will be as cheap as the bus, does the math work? Does the math work? This adds up to $0.34 FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Researchers use melamine to create effective, low-cost carbon capture; potential tailpipe application

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Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks.

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UT and ORNL researchers develop new class of pseudocapacitor; anion-based intercalation pseudocapacitance

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Another benefit is that the really high performing cation-based pseudocapacitors use metals that are really expensive and not abundant on earth, while the materials used in this anion-based one uses cheap metals that are abundant in earth’s crust. —Tyler Mefford, graduate student and lead author.

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Sandia team boosts hydrogen production activity by molybdenum disulfide four-fold; low-cost catalyst for solar-driven water splitting

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The idea was to understand the changes in the molecular structure of molybdenum disulfide, so that it can be a better catalyst for hydrogen production: closer to platinum in efficiency, but earth-abundant and cheap. Molly is dirt cheap and abundant. —co-author Jeff Brinker, Sandia Fellow and University of New Mexico professor.

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UT Austin team develops new family of high-capacity anode materials: Interdigitated Eutectic Alloys

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Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. —Kreder et al. Recent efforts to improve lithium-ion battery electrodes have focused on building new nanomaterials atom by atom.

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Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center

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Putting a data center right next to a power plant so that it can draw electricity from it directly, rather than from the grid, is becoming more common as data centers seek out cheap, steady, carbon-free power. Proposals for co-locating data centers next to nuclear power have popped up in New Jersey , Texas, Ohio , and elsewhere.

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DOE and NSF Award $2.5M for Research into New Materials for Photosplitting Water to Produce Hydrogen

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Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received about $2.5 Bard and Mullins are affiliated with the Center for Electrochemistry at the university. However, efficient, cheap and abundant materials have yet to be discovered to make solar water splitting a viable process. Charles Mullins.

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