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From Intel Intern to Inventor of the Year

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Intel. Chau hired Kavalieros as a summer intern in 1994 when he was pursuing his Ph.D. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kavalieros is the son of a supertanker captain. This can't be real," Jack Kavalieros recalls saying to himself. And we try and push those limits."

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European Commission approves up to €5.4B of public support for IPCEI Hy2Tech; 41 hydrogen projects

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The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Tech” was jointly prepared and notified by fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. The Member States will provide up to €5.4 billion in public funding, which is expected to unlock additional €8.8

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Gigantism Is a Never-Ending Temptation for Engineers and Designers

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Shipbuilders in ancient Greece kept on expanding the size of their oared vessels until they built, during the third century BCE, a tessarakonteres , with 4,000 oarsmen. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as “Extreme Designs.” That vessel was too heavy, too ponderous, and therefore a naval failure.

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Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. To validate cable simulation results, international standards are used, but these standards have not been able to keep up with recent advancements in computational power and the simulation software’s growing capabilities. Laws, Whitehouse received five minutes signal. Reply by coils.”

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