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New platform “brings more scalable approach to advanced wind O&M”

Envirotec Magazine

The platform, developed by the data science and engineering team behind industrial AI company Ada Mode, is designed to bring advanced health monitoring technology to asset managers and engineers in the wind energy sector, empowering them to quickly scale up their predictive maintenance strategies without a requirement for hardware installation.

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Making sense of the flow: The control possibilities enabled by actuators

Envirotec Magazine

Actuators are a vital component in a wide range of systems used in water, energy and other industries. Today’s electric actuators can be remotely controlled, and receive commands to open or close from industrial control systems like SCADA or DCS. But what exactly is an actuator? What does it do?

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Journalists Use Satellite Data to Track Pollution, Kim Jong-Un and More During COVID-19 Pandemic

Planet Pulse

Here are some examples of how satellite data continues to be used to monitor changes and global events—despite limiting COVID-19 travel and health restrictions. Some steel mills and power plants remain in operation around Beijing, China during the COVID-19 crisis. The Shifting Landscape. Pollution Pervades. © 2020, Planet Labs Inc.

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No, the Fukushima water release is not going to kill the Pacific Ocean

Envirotec Magazine

TEPCO subcontractors collect sea water samples near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2013 (image credit: IAEA Imagebank , CC BY-SA 2.0 But the Japanese government, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and independent scientists have declared the planned release to be reasonable and safe.

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SMuRFs could help make nuclear decommissioning work safer

Envirotec Magazine

Nuclear power stations could be decommissioned in the future with the help of teams of autonomous robots known as the SMuRFs, scientists have suggested. RAICo is a collaboration between the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Sellafield Ltd and the University of Manchester.

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Think tank outlines possible clean energy industrial strategy for the UK

Envirotec Magazine

Accelerating the build-out of clean energy will reduce costs and make the UK more secure, write Josh Freed and Isabelle Chan of US think tank Third Way, which released a new policy paper on the topic on 29 September. For example, the UK has the Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Department. Why industrial strategy?