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EEA: Fuel efficiency improvements of new cars in Europe slowed in 2016

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The fuel efficiency of new cars sold in the European Union (EU) continued to improve last year but at a slower rate, according to provisional data from the European Environment Agency. Registrations increased in all EU Member States except in the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Slovenia. of all new cars sold in the EU.

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Emissions of Air Pollutants down in EU-27

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The European Community’s air pollutant emission inventory report released by the European Environment Agency finds that in 2007, sulphur oxides (SO x ) emissions were down by 72 % from 1990 levels. EU-27 emissions of all four pollutants were lower in 2007 than in 2006.

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Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

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These networks include cables that connect wind farms to the shore and supply electricity to our power grid infrastructure (Figure 3). The foundations for these structures are expensive to construct and difficult to install in deep sea environments, as the cables have to be buried in the seafloor.

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