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Stories of the War in Ukraine: Volodymyr

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Over the past week, The Institute has made contact with some of the 400 members of the IEEE Ukraine Section to help them share their experiences during the war. This personal account was written by Volodymyr Pyliavskyi , a senior researcher at the Odessa National Telecommunications Academy in Odessa, Ukraine.

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Live Updates: Tesla Giga Berlin final environmental permit press conference

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The approval was discussed by Brandenburg Minister-President Dietmar Woidke during a press conference today. The following were the topics discussed during the press conference, as well as some notable updates and quotes during the press conference (Quotes provided by Google Translate unless otherwise stated). .

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German official calls for “Tesla Speed” efforts to shift away from Russian gas

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‘If I had told you during the election campaign that I would build an LNG (liquified natural gas) terminal in ten months’ time, you would have said, ‘Here are these politicians with their weird election campaign promises, they never keep them.’

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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and European Union’s decisions to impose—and maintain—sanctions on Russia after its invasion and annexation of Crimea and invasion and informal annexation eastern Ukraine will pile more pressure on the Russian energy industry. by Dalan McEndree for Oilprice.com. Dalan McEndree has a BA in history, MA in European History, M.Phil.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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Devastating accidents, like the ones at Chernobyl in Ukraine and Fukushima in Japan, can leave areas uninhabitable. And as the technology matures, it could also find uses here on Earth, such as for small power plants for individual buildings, which would reduce fossil-fuel dependency and increase grid resiliency.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Our basic goal is to build in the skills of an expert pilot into the drone itself, which involves a little bit of hardware. And so one of the things that we think a lot about in how we build our products—we’re a company. So I’ve watched many of your previous tech talks and also interacted with you guys at conferences.

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Russia deems SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 safe to launch cosmonauts

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Having prematurely canceled the Space Shuttle in 2011, the US had inexplicably forced itself – entirely of its own volition – into a situation where the only way it could crew the space station it helped spend $100 billion to build was to buy seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. — Irene Klotz (@Free_Space) October 25, 2021.

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