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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Zap and Helion are part of a renaissance in fusion-energy R&D aimed at achieving practical fusion power using much more modest facilities than the vast International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being built in southern France, at a cost estimated to be north of US $22 billion by the time it’s completed.

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How Russia Sent Ukraine Racing Into the “Energy Eurozone”

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Just a few hours before massed Russian troops and missiles surged over borders with deadly force last month, Ukraine’s grid operator opened a series of high-voltage breakers, disconnecting the nation’s grid from those of Belarus, Russia and the rest of the giant UPS/IPS synchronous AC power zone controlled from Moscow.

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??Why the World’s Militaries Are Embracing 5G

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Execute Reconnaissance and Grid Search, Provide Air Cover. The most powerful weapon is useless without knowing where to aim it. In a war zone such a mission might be carried out by a relatively large UAV outfitted with serious processing power. Downed Pilot, 121 miles NNW.

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??Why the World’s Militaries Are Embracing 5G

Cars That Think

Execute Reconnaissance and Grid Search, Provide Air Cover. The most powerful weapon is useless without knowing where to aim it. In a war zone such a mission might be carried out by a relatively large UAV outfitted with serious processing power. Downed Pilot, 121 miles NNW.

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