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First Supercritical CO2 Circuit Breaker Debuts

Cars That Think

Researchers this month will begin testing a high-voltage circuit breaker that can quench an arc and clear a fault with supercritical carbon dioxide fluid. Such equipment is scattered widely throughout power grids as a way to stop the flow of electrical current in an emergency.

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Can a New Power Link Boost the EU’s Energy Independence?

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The Black Sea is almost 1,200 kilometers long, and the proposed undersea power cable would need to run the length of it, making it the longest and deepest in the world. And vital undersea cables elsewhere in Europe have recently been targeted, including a power line under the Baltic Sea that was severed in December.

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Get Ready for the Stellarator Showdown

Cars That Think

For decades, nuclear fusion the reaction that powers the sunhas been the ultimate energy dream. If harnessed on Earth, it could provide endless, carbon-free power. Proxima detailed its fully integrated stellarator power plant concept, called Stellaris, in the journal Fusion Engineering and Design. The downside?

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How U.S. Airports Like Pittsburgh’s Generate Electricity On Site to Avoid Heathrow-Like Outages

Baua Electric

When Christina Cassotis, the chief executive of Pittsburgh International Airport, heard about the power outage that forced Londons Heathrow Airport to suspend operations last week, she thought of the workers who were frantically trying to manage the chaos. Power outages at airports are more common than many officials would like.

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Ports Plugging In: From Ground Vehicles To Ocean Shipping

CleanTechnica EVs

Currently responsible for approximately 3% of global carbon emissions, maritime operations and related logistics are under intense scrutiny to reduce their environmental impact. Ports around the world face an enormous sustainability challenge.

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Government to offer £3,750 to EV buyers

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The grant will only be offered to manufacturers that have verified science-based targets (SBTs) for carbon reduction and that have emissions scores below a threshold that the government has also yet to define. Scores are relative to an index based on the carbon intensity of different [power] grids.”

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Ørsted pullS plug on the Hornsea 4 Wind project

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gigawatts (GW) of power enough for up to 2.6m The UK has just 16GW of offshore wind in operation, but Mr Milibands Clean Power 2030 Action Plan relies on reaching at least 43GW by 2030 a target that was optometrist. The UK is aiming for 95% of the countrys electricity from low-carbon sources like renewables or nuclear power by 2030.

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