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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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Solar and Battery Companies Rattle Utility Powerhouses

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kWh battery wall unit. The German initiative comes on the heels of a similar rollout through Octopus Energy last November in the United Kingdom. The UK-based energy developer's just broken ground on a new four-acre battery storage site outside London, its third such site. Harmony Energy seems pretty pleased.

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Tech Leaders on 5G, Robots, and the Future of Work

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In October the organization surveyed 350 CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, and other technology leaders in Brazil, China, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He is a research scientist at Protocol Labs in London. “I IEEE Member Yiannis Psaras told IEEE Transmitter that blockchain applications are countless.

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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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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Unbridled optimism encouraged government agencies in the United States and United Kingdom to pour money into speculative research. In the late 1980s, the cold winds of commerce brought on the second AI winter. Frank Rosenblatt invented the perceptron, the first artificial neural network. In 1967, MIT professor.

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