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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. Welcome to Fusion City, USA At Helion Energy, workers build a section of the company’s Polaris fusion reactor. Number one?

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Ford partners with Wind Energy Corp to power 4 dealerships

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Under a pilot program exclusive to Ford, Wind Energy will install wind sail and solar panel systems at four Ford dealerships, a nearly $750,000 investment, to help power dealer facilities. Ford dealers will use the electricity to power their buildings, electric vehicle charging stations and lot lighting.

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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

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Those high magnetic fields may one day enable nuclear fusion energy, which I wrote about recently [see “ This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape ”]. Once the coil is charged, the energy can be stored nearly indefinitely with little to no decay, provided that the cooling is maintained.

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BMW Group sets out code of ethics for the use of artificial intelligence

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Building on the fundamental requirements formulated by the EU for trustworthy AI, the BMW Group has worked out seven basic principles covering the use of AI within the company. The BMW Group respects human dignity and therefore sets out to build fair AI applications. Diversity, non-discrimination and fairness.

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Hacking Ham Radio for Texting

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APRS is a store-and-forward radio network protocol developed over 25 years ago by U.S. I thought about building it around a Raspberry Pi. I have a HamMessenger installed in my truck that doubles as a location beacon. I started learning about the many different types of. This was perfect. HamMessenger GitHub page).

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UK wants to ban 100% ICE power by 2030

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Homes and public buildings: Making homes, schools and hospitals greener, warmer and more energy efficient, including a target to install 600,000 heat pumps every year by 2028. Point 7: Greener Buildings . from plants currently in operation or construction are captured and stored each year.

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2022—The Year the Hydrogen Economy Launched?

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Among the technological visions that seem perpetually futuristic (think commercial nuclear fusion and maglev trains), the hydrogen economy has always been tantalizing. billion project, just getting underway, will install facilities there to generate electricity from cleanly produced hydrogen. Bernd Heid, McKinsey & Co. “I

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