Reporte #137
Floating Wind Turbines on the High Seas Could Produce Massive Amounts of Power
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
The world’s first offshore wind farm employing floating turbines is taking shape 25 kilometers off the Scottish coast and expected to begin operating by the end of this year.
Intel Accelerates Its Quantum Computing Efforts With 17-Qubit Chip
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
Intel says it is shipping an experimental quantum computing chip to research partners in The Netherlands today. The company hopes to demonstrate that its packaging and integration skills give it an edge in the race to produce practical quantum computers.
Single optical pulse electronics have potential for communications, sensors and navigation
The Engineer
US team devises method for creating ‘solitons’ and hope for applications in optical technologies.
Will metal supplies limit battery expansion?
MIT News – Engineering
Rise of electric vehicles and grid storage may cause bottlenecks, but no showstoppers, analysis suggests.
Teleoperating robots with virtual reality
MIT News – Engineering
A virtual reality system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could make it easier for factory workers to telecommute.
Autonomous vehicle ride-sharing to merge with public transport
The Engineer
A year-long project is underway to study how autonomous vehicle ride-sharing can work and connect with London’s transport network.
Building materials made from organic waste could help boost bio-economy
The Engineer
Organic waste could be used to make building materials and then fed back into the biological cycle at the end of their service life, claims a new report from Arup.
Companies embrace potential of electric aircraft propulsion
The Engineer
Although Airbus is the most involved of the two civil aerospace giants in developing electric aircraft, it was not the first in the space. That honour goes to Boeing, which started its foray into electric aircraft propulsion in 2012 with a project called SUGARVolt (SUGAR – Subsonic Ultra-Green Aircraft Research).
Giant energy storage battery installed at Sheffield biomass plant
The Engineer
In a claimed UK first, energy supplier E.ON has completed the installation of a 10MW energy storage system that will be used to help smooth the flow of power to and from the grid.
New technique scours the genome for genes that combat disease
MIT News – Engineering
Biological engineers identify genes that protect against protein linked to Parkinson’s disease.