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Fraunhofer researchers develop technique to produce aluminum windings for motors

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Researchers at Fraunhofer IFAM have developed a casting technique that can be used to produce lightweight aluminum windings with a higher groove fill factor to replace copper windings in electric motors. To show this in a direct comparison, the Fraunhofer team used 250W commercial pedelec motors. © Fraunhofer IFAM.

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EU Innovation Fund grants €108M to RWE’s waste-to-hydrogen project FUREC

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For comparison: This is equivalent to the output of a 700-megawatt offshore wind farm with coupled electrolyzers. FUREC is preparing the necessary grid connections to the hydrogen and CO 2 infrastructure. The plant is expected to produce 54,000 tonnes of hydrogen per year.

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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

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The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. A transmission network contains webs of connections, which create a reliable, redundant power-supply system of massive scale. system fragmented into about a dozen regions with limited connectivity between them.

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SEG Automotive set to commission a new 400V motor line in Hosur | Autocar Professional

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“We started developing a 48V motor for electric two-wheelers around five years ago, and the road that led us to this success is our customer connect, and our local supplier base. We have over 125 local suppliers for the housings, and copper windings of our starters and generators.

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U-Michigan, IBM collaborate on data-centric high performance computing system

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Each of the Garrison nodes will also host four NVIDIA Pascal GPUs connected via NVIDIA’s NVLink technology to the Power8 system bus. All compute and storage is connected via a 100 Gb/s InfiniBand fabric. Each node has a local high-speed flash memory for random access.

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Report for IPCC finds renewables could supply up to 77% of global energy by 2050 under most optimistic scenario; need for enabling public policies and investments

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As a comparison, 314 Exajoules is more than three times the annual energy supply in the United States in 2005, which is also a similar level of supply on the Continent of Europe according to various government and independent sources. Wind energy, including on- and offshore systems.

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2024 GWM Tank 500 review

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By way of a quick comparison, those numbers are 105kW and 148Nm more than those produced by the 2.8-litre Wireless Apple CarPlay and wired Android Auto connectivity is fitted as standard. There is no diesel option, the range powered exclusively by a 2.0-litre GWM says the offering is good for 8.5

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