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WEB2024 awards open for entries Celebrating the very best in UK collaborations and innovations in engineering. Now in its ninth year, The Engineer’s Collaborate To Innovate awards (C2I) was established to uncover and celebrate great examples of technology-led engineering collaboration across a range of different disciplines and sectors.
IEA report claims batteries are ‘changing the game’
WEBApr 25, 2024 · Batteries are changing the game before our eyes.”. Despite the rapid progress, the IEA report says battery deployment still needs to scale up significantly between now and the end of the decade for the world to meet its energy and climate targets. Overall energy storage capacity needs to …
Late Great Engineers: Rudolf Diesel - Powering the modern world
WEBMar 29, 2022 · Late Great Engineers: Rudolf Diesel - Powering the modern world. In-Depth. With the development of his eponymous engine, Rudolf Diesel was to have a profound effect on the way industry, transportation and international freight shaped the 20th century. Written by Nick Smith. Diesel engines play a part in the lives of us all.
Reshoring UK manufacturing: how, why and who?
WEBNov 2, 2020 · Reshoring Case study: Volt - from Poland to Milton Keynes. James Metcalfe, Co-Founder of UK electric bike manufacturer VOLT explains why and how the company relocated manufacturing from Poland to the UK. After ten years designing and building e-bikes, we had outgrown our Polish surroundings, …
EDF Renewables reveals plans for 300MW of battery storage
WEBAug 20, 2024 · Six battery storage projects with a combined rating of more than 300MW are set to be added to the grid over the next 12 months by EDF Renewables UK. The projects include a 57MW battery in Braintree, Essex, a 47.5MW battery in Indian Queens, Saint Austell, and a 47.5MW battery near Mannington in …
Salary survey: What’s a UK engineer worth in 2022?
WEBMar 2, 2022 · According to this year’s survey, which attracted responses from almost 800 engineers across 11 different sectors, the mean average salary for UK engineers now stands at £58k which marks a modest 2.3 per cent increase on last year’s figure. And whilst more than half of our respondents (56 per cent) have received a …
Late Great Engineers: Norbert Wiener - father of cybernetics
WEBSep 15, 2021 · In 1950, writing in The Human Use of Human Beings, Norbert Wiener states: “The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.”The most pertinent fact to differentiate this statement from the musings of Robert A Heinlein in his novel Citizen of the Galaxy, published in the same ...
Comment: Why battery power is the future for HGVs
WEBJun 29, 2021 · The future is battery electric. The technology has developed hugely, it’s now much more efficient, allowing trucks to cover hundreds of miles a day, and importantly for fleets the investment in battery-electric HGVs is returned in five years. What’s more, because duty cycles for HGVs typically work on fixed or point-to-point routes, and the ...
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Octopus raises the temperature with Cosy heat pump
WEBSep 15, 2023 · Customers who require new radiators, piping or a hot water tank should be able to adopt the system for a cost of around £3,000, according to Octopus. “This paves the way to heat pumps for everyone,” Octopus Energy Group CEO and founder Greg Jackson said at the Energy Tech Summit in London, run in partnership with Wired.