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Report: Renewable Marine Sources Could Provide Up To 50% of Europes Electricity by 2050

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By 2050 Europe could get up to 50% of its electricity needs from renewable marine sources according to a report presented by the Marine Board of the European Science Foundation at the EurOCEAN 2010 conference. —Lars Horn, Research Council of Norway and chair of the Marine Board.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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In October 1972, the ARPANET was publicly unveiled at the first meeting of the International Conference on Computer Communications , in Washington, D.C. “I That’s not going to work if you’re in a noisy environment, if you’re in a tunnel, if you’re behind a mountain, or if somebody’s jamming you. Bob had that.

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THINK Sending 3 EVs to Brazil in Collaboration with CPFL Energia

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CPFL Energia has purchased three THINK City EVs, which it intends to showcase at the Michelin Challenge Bibendum sustainable mobility conference, hosted in Rio de Janeiro at the end of this month. The latest generation THINK City is a purpose-built, all-electric car designed for urban environments. million consumers.

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American and European Standards organizations agree to strengthen transatlantic cooperation on standards for electric vehicles

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Both Froman and Phillipe Jean, head of unit, sustainable mobility and automotive industry, in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, urged support for two informal working groups on EV safety and the environment that the U.S. 29 of UN-ECE).

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Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

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The foundations for these structures are expensive to construct and difficult to install in deep sea environments, as the cables have to be buried in the seafloor. and Norway. Many OFW farms are made up of grounded structures, like monopiles and other types of bottom-fixed wind turbines. Chrysochos et al., Chatzipetros and J.A.

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UN report highlights urgent need to tackle impact of EV battery production boom

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Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), to call for the social and environmental impacts of the extraction of raw materials, which include human rights abuses, to be addressed urgently.

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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Equinor used the same design for an 88-MW, 11-turbine array —the world’s largest, though probably not for long—completed this year in Norway. Equinor constructed floating wind farms in Scotland and Norway. They are making sure that everything works in this moving environment,” he says.

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