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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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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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Over the past few years, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), University of California at Davis (UC Davis) and University of Stavanger in Norway have developed a new protocol, called BChain, which makes blockchain even more robust. —Duan et al. In: Aguilera M.K., Querzoni L., Shapiro M.

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

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There will always be some slight differences in coupler configurations as a result of specific regional electric grid requirements, the group said. Vehicle-to-grid communications. There is a need for common standards for communication between the vehicle and the grid, and to address roaming of electric vehicles and smart charging.

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Garage Lessons: Charging in The Real World

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I participated in the Governor''s Office Conference Coast-to-Coast Workshop on E-Mobility in Sacramento sponsored by the governments of California and the Netherlands on Wednesday. In Norway tax policy has resulted in the the world''s quickest uptake of EVs. I don''t think so. Maybe some day, but not now.

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New ceramic membrane generates compressed H2 from methane and electricity with near-zero energy loss

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A team of scientists from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, the University of Oslo (Norway) and the Instituto de Tecnología Química (Spain) have successfully completed laboratory testing of a ceramic membrane that generates compressed hydrogen from natural gas and electricity in a one-step process with near-zero energy loss.

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Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

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These networks include cables that connect wind farms to the shore and supply electricity to our power grid infrastructure (Figure 3). and Norway. As the offshore wind industry continues to grow, our need to develop power cables that can safely and efficiently connect these farms to our power grid grows as well. 1913–1921, 2018.

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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There’s good reason for this hustle: The United Kingdom wants to add 34 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, en route to decarbonizing its grid by 2035. 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. s next frontier.

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