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Companies form H2Bus consortium to deploy 1,000 hydrogen fuel cell buses and infrastructure in Europe

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The first phase of the project, totalling 600 buses, is supported by €40 million from the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). The funding will enable the deployment of 200 hydrogen fuel cell electric buses and supporting infrastructure in each of Denmark, Latvia and the UK by 2023.

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Waze adds speed limits feature, planned drives

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Waze, the popular “connected driver” app that combines navigation with driver contributions on traffic, accidents and other road data, is adding a speed limit feature that will automatically notify drivers when they are exceeding the speed limit. The rest of world will follow. It will stay there until the vehicle speed drops below the limit.

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??Why the World’s Militaries Are Embracing 5G

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Through a self-organizing network of communication nodes, the piloted fighter in the air connects to the special forces on the ground. The fighter jet acts as a base station, connecting the flying mesh network of the UAVs with a network of military and commercial satellites accessible to commanders all over the world. Lockheed Martin.

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??Why the World’s Militaries Are Embracing 5G

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Through a self-organizing network of communication nodes, the piloted fighter in the air connects to the special forces on the ground. The fighter jet acts as a base station, connecting the flying mesh network of the UAVs with a network of military and commercial satellites accessible to commanders all over the world. Lockheed Martin.

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How Russia Sent Ukraine Racing Into the “Energy Eurozone”

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But through it all Ukrenergo and its European colleagues were quietly working on an emergency support scheme: uniting Ukraine’s grid with those of the European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E)—a continuous zone of synchronized AC power connecting most of Continental Europe. ius told IEEE Spectrum yesterday.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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This past November, he focused on the efforts of three Baltic states—Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia—to separate their electrical grids from the Russian-controlled synchronous AC power zone. Such a condenser is essentially a large synchronous machine that spins freely; however, a flywheel connected to its shaft can store kinetic energy.

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