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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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One day soon, a platform 50 times as large may float in the deep waters of the North Sea, buoying up a massive wind turbine to harvest the steady, strong breezes there. About an hour’s ride up the coast, full-scale 3,000-tonne behemoths already float in Aberdeen Bay, capturing enough wind energy to electrify nearly 35,000 Scottish households.

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Fierce Storm Sends Flights Bound for One Country to Another

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A powerful storm diverted dozens of flights in Britain and Ireland on Sunday and Monday, sending passengers to Germany, France and northern Britain, and stranding some at airports overnight. A Ryanair flight from Budapest to London Stansted was supposed to depart at 6 p.m. Crossley told The Times. that evening.

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Video Friday: AcroMonk

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ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON Energy Drone & Robotics Summit : 10–12 June 2023, HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Enjoy today’s videos!

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BMW Group and Vattenfall Europe begin second phase of MINI E fleet test in Berlin

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The aim of the project, funded by the German Federal Environment Ministry (BMU), is to optimize the charging strategy to the use of wind energy for the MINI E to achieve the best possible. This fleet tests subsequently expanded into France (Paris), Japan (Tokyo) and China (Beijing and Shenzhen).

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New EV Prototype Leaves Range Anxiety in the Dust

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The Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX, and its showroom-bound tech, looks to banish range anxiety for good: In April, the sleek prototype sedan completed a 621-mile (1,000-kilometer) trek through the Alps from Mercedes’ Sindelfingen facility to the Côte d'Azur in Cassis, France with battery juice to spare. The Benz sipped electrons at 8.7

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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V-2 rockets it used to rain destruction on London. A second wire also wrapped around the core forms a control winding. The control winding includes many turns of wire, so by passing a relatively small direct current through it, the iron core can be forced into or out of saturation. David Schneider. In 1956, the. Sperry Rand Co.

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New Gen4 smart electric drive; electrification of all smart models

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This configuration incorporates an excitation winding on the rotor that is magnetized when current flows. The drive is produced in Renault’s plant in Clèon, Northern France. The flow of energy from the high-voltage battery to the electric motor is controlled by the power electronics that are compactly interlocked with the drive unit.