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As Development Alters Greek Islands’ Nature and Culture, Locals Push Back

Baua Electric

Tourism is crucial in Greece, accounting for a fifth of the country’s economic output, and communities on many islands depend on it. The islands, at the forefront of Greece’s tourism boom, are facing increasingly urgent calls to preserve their natural and cultural heritage.

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Half of EU Electric Car Chargers in Just Two Countries!

CleanTechnica EVs

We’ve hosted conferences on EV charging within Europe. I’ve followed the European electric car and EV charger market for a decade.

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EU investing >€3M in research into ultra-efficient aero engines; ULTIMATE project

Green Car Congress

at the ASME Turbo Expo 2016 conference this week in Seoul, South Korea. ​ The 3-year project, which launched in September 2015, targets radical concepts for new aero engines, in line with the EU’s long-term emissions reduction target for 2050. The project is being presented in a paper (Grönstedt et al. )

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

Cars That Think

Madni says he and members of his research and marketing teams went to every sensors conference they could find, talking to anyone who used inertial sensors, regardless of whether the applications were industrial, commercial, or space. “If I couldn’t affect humanity, I felt that I would have an unfulfilling career.”. The hunt was on.

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Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

Cars That Think

The Hellenic Cables team used FEM to analyze soil resistivity for two sites: one in northern Germany and one in southern Greece. Capacitive and Inductive Coupling in Cable Systems – Comparative Study between Calculation Methods”, 10th International Conference on Insulated Power Cables , Jicable, 2019. Chrysochos et al.,

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