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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

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Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. But his concept has evolved.

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MAN propane-fueled ME-LGIP to power Chinese VLGC

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With a new injection concept, initially developed for methanol, the ME-LGI concept greatly expands the company’s dual-fuel portfolio and enables the exploitation of more low-flash-point fuels such as ethanol, dimethyl ether and, now, LPG. LGIP engine. HFO-burning engines to 6G60ME-C9.5-LGIP LGIP LPG-propelled dual-fuel engines.

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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Tanenbaum went on to serve as president of AT&T’s New Jersey Bell (now part of Verizon ) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Together with physicist Armin Zastrow, he pioneered the concept of agrivoltaics —the use of land for both agriculture and solar energy generation. At the time, Bell Labs was the research arm of AT&T.

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France’s IFPEN studying industrial potential of onshore sources of natural hydrogen

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intracontinental regions (intraplate regions) and in particular in the oldest parts (Precambrian cratons) located at their center. These areas contain the oldest parts of the continents, cratons. IFPEN will continue its work as part of a new project to assess the technical and economic viability of industrial natural H 2 production.

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Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety

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All the parts of our computing systems today are benchmarked—that is, compared to similar components in a controlled way, with quantitative score assessments. Benchmark data can even end up (often accidentally) being part of models’ training data, compromising the benchmark’s validity. proof-of-concept (POC) today, 16 April, 2024.