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The Superconducting Shields Behind MRIs’ Triumph

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The strategy, known as passive shielding , increased construction costs and the time it took to install a scanner, however. The enhancement, unveiled by a team of scientists at Oxford Instruments (now part of Siemens ), in Oxfordshire, England, lowered installation costs and shortened construction times.

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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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Our new Australian myenergi HQ

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Our international expansion programme is building with impressive momentum, with subsidiaries already operational in Germany, Ireland and The Netherlands. “As eddi energy diverter allows you to maximise self-consumption of renewable energy, by using it to power pool pumps and heat hot water rather than diverting it back to the grid.

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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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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Most of the activity is in Europe , where there are at least 10 major offshore wind and hydrogen projects , including demonstration systems being built or planned in the North Sea, the Atlantic, and off the coast of Ireland. The technology to produce hydrogen by electrolyzing water has been around for more than 200 years.

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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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Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

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Rose Gottemoeller , former deputy secretary general of NATO, warns that “the stealth of submarines will be difficult to sustain, as sensing of all kinds, in multiple spectra, in and out of the water becomes more ubiquitous.” Lidar sensors transmit laser pulses through the water to produce highly accurate 3D scans of objects.