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OECD countries invest on average around 1% of GDP on road and rail infrastructure

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There are only few exceptions from this trend, notably Greece, Spain, Switzerland and Portugal which show significantly higher GDP shares over the period (reaching 1.6% – 2.0%). Since 2007, however, Greece and Portugal have converged closer to the WEC average, investments declining to around 1.0%

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World’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm beats expectations in the face of extreme storms

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The offshore wind farm sits 20 km off the coast of Portugal in the municipality of Viana do Castelo, north of Porto. It has an operations and maintenance base in the port of Viana do Castelo, where the team receives the wind farm’s information in real-time so they can address issues immediately. It comprises three 8.4

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Video Friday: Lunar Rover

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: ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, the Netherlands CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Mobile robots now deliver vast amounts of sensor data from large unstructured environments.

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Video Friday: Automotive Artistry

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12 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2022

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With its higher frequencies, 6-GHz Wi-Fi is expected to find use in heavy traffic environments like offices and public hotspots. The exact date depends on when the Large Hadron Collider is set to renew proton-proton collisions after three years of upgrades and maintenance. FASER will. The Green Hydrogen Boom.

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US study of miners links heavy exposure to diesel exhaust to increased risk of lung cancer death; researchers suggest implications for urban areas with high exhaust concentrations

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µg/m 3 ), and Estarreja, Portugal (11.8 In the fairly enclosed environments of these mines, exhaust builds up in the air to levels considerably higher than those found in other occupational settings—such as trucking depots or shipyards—and many times higher than the air inhaled by the general population. Reduction in the.

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China’s new energy buses are re-exported to Europe

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Zhongtong’s new N series pure electric buses are exported to the second largest city in Portugal. Recently, Zhongtong Bus’s first batch of six pure electric new N-series buses was officially delivered to Porto, Portugal’s second largest city, and officially opened for operation locally.

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