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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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A Sea-Monster-Proof Internet The initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland. But now, Électricité de France (EDF) says they are in the final stretch.

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BT Group Converts Telecom Infrastructure to EV Chargers

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The company has announced a pilot project to retrofit street cabinets traditionally used to store broadband Internet and telephone cabling. BT Group says more cabinets in Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland will be repurposed in the coming months—as many as 600 such conversions by the end of 2024.

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Ford Transit Custom Plug-In Hybrid available for order in Europe, deliveries by year-end

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liter EcoBoost gasoline engine acts as a range extender for total driving range exceeding 500 kilometers (310 miles), 2.7 FordPass Connect on-board modem technology features as standard, enabling operators to maximize vehicle efficiency and utilization. The Transit Custom Plug-In Hybrid’s front wheels are driven exclusively by a 92.9

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QUB spin-out to commercialize to technique for production of MOFs; storage for natural gas vehicles

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Chemists at Queen’s University Belfast (Ireland) have devised a novel environmentally friendly technique which allows the rapid production of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). MOFs have the highest surface-areas of any known materials; this incredibly high surface area means that MOFs are very good at storing gases. Pichon et al.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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The game was actually created as part of a training exercise to get a young engineer named. Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. Hundreds of thousands of Pong sets were distributed through the department store Sears.

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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Ireland, South Korea, and Taiwan are among the other countries with bold floating wind ambitions. One FloWave-tested platform, engineered by Copenhagen-based Stiesdal Offshore , was recently selected for a 100-megawatt wind farm to be built off Scotland’s northern tip in 2025. Pacific coast could support 100 GW more by midcentury.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

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Goldstein: Oh, that’s interesting because the—I mean, where I was going with that connection to legislation is that—I think what Bob found in the EV transition is that the knowledge base of the people who are charged with making decisions about regulations is pretty small. So the real engineering is just beginning for this.

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