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GE scraps plans to make giant 18 MW offshore wind turbines

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Photo: GE Renewable Energy GE Vernova is abandoning plans to supersize its offshore wind turbines and will instead focus on rolling out smaller “workhorse” turbines. We believe the future of our offshore wind business will be the Haliade-X 15.5 The company made project losses in its offshore wind business last year.

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A Novel IEEE Workshop Showcases Jamaica’s Engineering Community

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Marie Hunter , IEEE managing director and the event design lead, and David Stankiewicz , event design and production manager for IEEE Conferences, Events, and Experiences , partnered with the section and region to design the workshop. Many careers are full of twists and turns. IEEE Member Juleen Gentles.

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IIT Madras offers 12 weeks free online course on ‘Electrical Autos & Renewable Vitality

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’ All India Council for Technical Schooling (AICTE) is permitting this course and is available for college students and professionals. a Solar and Wind energy in India: Economics of centralized generation. IIT Madras. This online course is for 12 weeks and it will offer a certificate too to the participants.

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LCA study finds Alcoa forged aluminum wheels cut carbon footprint of commercial vehicles

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This analysis, performed by PE International and Five Winds Strategic Consulting, is the most comprehensive and transparent comparative LCA ever conducted on aluminum and steel truck wheels, according to Alcoa. The savings from. —“Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Aluminum and Steel Truck Wheels”.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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He works for Systemica, who has been contracted to design the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system for the citadel of Masdar. The goal is to design a city that “ is completely sustainable, to be completely self sufficient, to be able to live on its own produced energy from the sun, the wind, of processing its own waste ” according to Guala.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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We want to make that available to anybody using one of our products, even if they’re not an expert pilot, and even if they’re not at the controls when it’s flying itself. So I’ve watched many of your previous tech talks and also interacted with you guys at conferences. So today we don’t model— we estimate the wind.

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

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Terry Byland is the only person to have received this kind of implant in both eyes. He helped the company test the technology, spoke to the press movingly about his experiences, and even met Stevie Wonder at a conference. “[I] I] went from being just a person that was doing the testing to being a spokesman,” he remembers.