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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 There was a steep trail that went up the side of a fjord, water coming down the opposite side. I remember renting a conference room at the Cabana Hyatt in Palo Alto,” Kahn says.

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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. Installation and maintenance is easier to accomplish in shallow waters. and Norway. Chrysochos et al., Chatzipetros and J.A. 1913–1921, 2018. Chrysochos et al.,

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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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In a hangar at the University of Edinburgh, a triangular steel contraption sits beside a giant tank of water. Inside the tank, a technician in a yellow dinghy adjusts equipment so that the triangled structure can be hoisted into the water to see how it deals with simulated waves and currents. s next frontier.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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Norway has the highest per capita number of EVs, which represented. Therefore, an EV operated in Shandong imposes a much bigger environmental burden than that same EV would in Yunnan or Norway. more than 86 percent of vehicle sales in that country in 2021. And it produces almost all its electricity from hydro and solar.