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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. This means that storing and distributing energy is as important as its generation. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Shell and Uniper to work together on blue hydrogen production facility in the UK

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Blue hydrogen refers to hydrogen produced by the reformation of natural gas, with the CO 2 produced as a result of this process being captured and stored using CCS technology. The hydrogen produced could be used to decarbonize industry, transport and power throughout the Humber region.

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Groupe PSA introduces new eVMP platform (Electric Vehicle Modular Platform) for C- and D-segment vehicles

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These vehicles will benefit from this new reference platform, the eVMP. By storing 50 kWh per meter within the wheelbase, it will therefore be able to offer an all-electric range from 400 km to 650 km (WLTP cycle) depending on the body.

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Tesla Applies A Gamification Strategy To Safe Driving

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Gamification usually refers to a marketing strategy — for example, getting points for shopping at your favorite stores or coffee places. Tesla has released its Safety Score Beta system, a system for assessing driving behavior and including a gamification element.

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BMW Group hosts first conference on Quantum Computing for Automotive Challenges

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With the BMW Group Quantum Computing Challenge, we provided well-described industry reference problems representing the automotive industry. Thereby computational operations on information stored in different registers can be performed at the same time. Andre Luckow, Head of Innovations & Emerging Technologies at BMW Group IT.

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ZF joins Open Manufacturing Platform

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The OMP aims to provide community members with a reference architecture with open-source components based on open industrial standards. The approach is designed to standardize industrial data models to accelerate analytics and machine learning scenarios by unlocking the access to data that used to be stored in proprietary systems.

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Wärtsilä and partners to cooperate in wind-to-hydrogen-to-electricity project; other power-to-X fuels

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The project will be based in Vaasa and will focus on enabling a new way to store renewable energy. The system will use renewable energy to produce hydrogen to be stored and reprocessed. The stored hydrogen can be utilized both in energy production and transportation applications.

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