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General Fusion and UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announce collaborative agreement to advance commercial fusion energy

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Ultimately, the company expects the projects will support its efforts to provide low-cost and low-carbon energy to the electricity grid. The demonstration machine is to designed to demonstrate General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology, creating fusion conditions in a power-plant-relevant environment.

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New safety test environment for high-speed flywheels for energy storage systems; new high-speed imaging techniques

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The Ricardo-led FlySafe research collaboration—involving a range of leading industrial and academic partners including the University of Brighton’s Centre for Automotive Engineering—has delivered an innovative flywheel safety test environment to enable the development of next-generation flywheel energy storage systems.

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Transport for London launches first all-electric, long-range double-decker BYD buses into service

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Transport for London (TfL) has introduced the first long-range, battery-electric BYD Double-Decker buses into revenue service routes. TfL plans to charge the buses overnight using low-cost, off-peak electricity to provide additional cost savings. Route 98 was chosen given its status as a pollution hotspot in the city.

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Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

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All these methods seek to detect anomalies in the natural environment, as represented in sophisticated models of baseline conditions that have been developed within the last decade, thanks in part to Moore’s Law advances in computing power. It is often not sensitive enough to pick out the. Lidar has better range and. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Gordon Murray T.27 unveiled; Zytek provides more details on 25 kW EV powertrain

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At an event held at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, London Gordon Murray Design unveiled its latest ultra-compact electric city vehicle, the T.27 The modular design allows other architectures to be quickly developed to suit specific installation requirements. Specs for the T.27. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. million (US$2.4-million)

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Electric cars buyers guide

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Are electric cars better for the environment? Some electricity companies now offer EV-specific home electricity tariffs with energy prices around 5p per kWh (average home electricity costs around 14p per kWh). and to work out the cost of a full charge, all you do is multiply the battery size of an EV by the cost of electricity.