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Materials science as key enabler for clean energy transition

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If you don’t change direction, you will end up where you are heading,” said Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism. Thee second valley is the scale-up from small pilot projects to commercial-size facilities, where economies of scale can be used to dramatically reduce costs. Where are we heading? —Chu et al. Renewable energy future.

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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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Not so fast: The real-world efficiency of commercial, space-qualified solar cells has progressed much more slowly than records set in highly controlled research experiments, which often use exotic materials or complex designs that cannot currently be mass-produced. A 1974 study that NASA commissioned from the consultancy Arthur D.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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In light of those conversations, we developed a user-friendly Web application called SpotlightAI. Maybe we’ll eventually have separate models for places such as Angola, Iraq, and Laos. Our current model is optimized for Ukraine and the types of EO found there, but many other countries are still dealing with contamination.

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