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Charging piles will become standard in new buildings in the UK

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From 2022, new homes and buildings, such as supermarkets and workplaces, as well as buildings undergoing major renovations, will be required to install electric power under new legislation announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 22 November Car charging pile. Other buildings will also start installing charging piles.

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Oyster Wave Power Machine Generates Electricity Onshore; Sea Trials Begin This Autumn

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A new type of wave power machine—Oyster—is being installed on the seabed off the Atlantic shores of the Orkney Islands for trials that begin this autumn. The oscillator is fitted with pistons and, when activated by wave action, pumps high-pressure water through a sub-sea pipeline to the shore. Click to enlarge. The Oyster prototype.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland. The components are for startup NuScale , whose design promises to drastically reduce cost and installation time. Out With Red Tape, In With the Fiber Germany aims to triple the amount of fiber cable installed by the end of 2025, in an effort called Gigabitstrategie.

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UN report finds world needs incremental $1.9 trillion invested in green technologies to avert planetary catastrophe; global per capita cap on primary energy consumption of 70 GJ/yr may be required

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trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. The reports estimates that incremental green investment of about 3% of world gross product (WGP) (about $1.9 A global “Top Runner Program”.

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Sand, Sea and as Much Serenity as You Could Ever Want

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They live atop garnet-colored cliffs, surrounded by sapphire water and emerald grass. Many are descendants of shipwreck survivors from England, Scotland and Ireland who were on their way to somewhere else when nature intervened. I saw more purple houses on the Magdalens than I have everywhere else put together.)

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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In a hangar at the University of Edinburgh, a triangular steel contraption sits beside a giant tank of water. Inside the tank, a technician in a yellow dinghy adjusts equipment so that the triangled structure can be hoisted into the water to see how it deals with simulated waves and currents. s next frontier.

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