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Britons throw away nearly half a billion ‘fast tech’ items annually, research shows

E&T

Material Focus said the study has been released in a bid to raise awareness of the issue and encourage people to donate or recycle anything with a plug, battery or cable. We want to get the message across that anything with a plug, battery or cable can be recycled and there’s somewhere near you to do it.

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Kraken Robotics awarded a $3M seabed survey contract

Canadian Manufacturing

The acoustic imagery and bathymetry collected by KATFISH systems reportedly provides customers with actionable intelligence about subsea assets and infrastructure such as subsea pipelines and fiber optic cables, as well as important hydrographic information about the safety of key transit routes for ocean going assets.

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How Smart Sensors Prevent Thieves From Going Off the Rails

i4.0 today

Cable theft costs the UK taxpayer millions of pounds each year—and that’s just for infrastructure repairs. Thieves are attracted to metal for its buoyant pricing, targeting overhead power lines, signalling cables, and even metal fences. What happens when cables are stolen? The total cost to the economy is even higher.

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View from Brussels: The curious case of the Channel cable

E&T

The 150-mile-long planned cable will have a capacity of 2 gigawatts and add vital cross-border energy potential to both the French and British power markets. The UK government said in January 2022 that it would not grant the necessary permits, insisting that not enough effort had been spent on finding an alternative route for the cable.

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Australia and Singapore sign ambitious green energy deal

E&T

Albanese said the pact showed a "collective resolve" to slash greenhouse gas emissions through an ambitious energy project and added the pact would "support clean energy innovation, unlock business opportunities and create jobs, and help deliver our mission’s targets”. . AA PowerLink Project / SunCable Media.

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Digital Comparators are More Than Just Readout Devices

Modern Machine Shop

Data can be transmitted to data collection systems through digital output ports. With some integrated wireless features built-in, they can eliminate the need for wired cabling and transferring data directly into data collection systems. These digital output ports represent a great benefit of modern comparators.

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Wireless technique helps quantum computing systems keep their cool

Control Engineering

While much of it is theoretical and hypothetical, it is part of a larger effort to build on this collective knowledge pool for the future. The metal cables that connect these electronics bring heat into the refrigerator, which has to work even harder and draw extra power to keep the system cold. This is very promising.”