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Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 refers to a new phase in the Industrial Revolution that focuses heavily on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data. Industry 4.0, which encompasses IIoT and smart manufacturing, marries physical production and operations with smart digital technology, machine learning, and big data to create a more holistic and better-connected ecosystem for companies that focus on manufacturing and supply chain management.

Low-Cost Batteries Made From Inexpensive Materials

DETROIT - An aluminum-sulfur battery, made from inexpensive, abundant materials, could provide low-cost backup storage for renewable energy sources. As ever larger installations of wind and solar power systems are being built around the world, the need is growing fast for economical, large-scale backup systems to provide power when the the air is calm and

By |2022-08-28T11:12:42-04:00August 28th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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U-M study: Local Renewable Energy Employment Can Fully Replace U.S. Coal Jobs Nationwide

ANN ARBOR - Across the United States, local wind and solar jobs can fully replace the coal-plant jobs that will be lost as the nation's power-generation system moves away from fossil fuels in the coming decades, according to a new University of Michigan study. As of 2019, coal-fired electricity generation directly employed nearly 80,000 workers

By |2022-08-25T11:46:10-04:00August 23rd, 2022|Climate Change, Industry 4.0|
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Sandia Labs Uses Heated Carbon Dioxide To Deliver Electricity To Power Grid

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the first time, Sandia National Laboratories researchers delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle. The Brayton cycle is named after 19th century

By |2022-08-21T12:37:25-04:00August 21st, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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Bill Gates Backs Startup Using Robots To Build Huge Solar Farms

SEATTLE - Terabase Energy, a company looking to make massive solar farms economically viable, has received a co-sign from Bill Gates in the form of a cash infusion from Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on climate change solutions. The move marks what may be the next step in ratcheting up

By |2022-08-21T12:30:58-04:00August 21st, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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Scientists Finally Create Energy Of The Sun In A Lab Opening Door To Clean Fusion Power

LIVERMORE, Ca. - Scientists have confirmed that they were able to ignite the same chemical reaction that powers the Sun by pumping more power than the entire US electric grid into a small gold capsule. If scientists were able to develop fully functioning fusion power plants, the sites would produce scores of energy using hydrogen from

By |2022-08-21T12:12:02-04:00August 21st, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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Hydrogen Will ‘Effectively Replace Fossil Fuels’ As UK Invests In Clean Vehicles

LONDON, UK - The use of hydrogen for long-haul trucking has been supported by H2Accelerate through new research designed to evaluate the success of the fuel type in the UK. The paper sets out that larger companies like Amazon, Nestle and DB Schenker, have the potential to drive significant market demand for hydrogen trucks and the growth of the

By |2022-08-14T18:13:49-04:00August 14th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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Engineer Builds Martian Nuclear Reactor That Can Tackle Earth’s Power Crisis

SAN FRANCISCO - A former employee of SpaceX has set a very ambitious goal of building a working solution for humanity's ever-growing need for electricity. No bigger than a regular container, his invention is a nuclear fission reactor generator. Portable, affordable, and economically feasible, the power plant can be deployed everywhere. In an interview for

By |2022-07-31T10:52:26-04:00July 31st, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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620 MPH Hyperloop Electric Tube Set To Debut In Canada

TORONTO, Canada - FluxJet is the name of a new hybrid between a train and a jet, able to carry up to 54 passengers at over 1,000 kph (621 MPH), which is three times faster than high-speed trains and faster than a jet. This fully-electric vehicle was developed by the Toronto-based TransPod, in collaboration with various

By |2022-07-31T10:41:45-04:00July 31st, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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5 Ways Industry 4.0 Tech is Improving, Not Replacing, Manufacturing Jobs

TROY - Hearing talk about AI technology and robot learning probably conjures images from The Matrix, but today’s tech is more about improving our workforce than robots taking it over. The manufacturing staffing model of yesterday has been upgraded to include automation for the benefit, not detriment, of manufacturing jobs. The future workforce will either upskill to

By |2022-07-24T18:41:41-04:00July 24th, 2022|Industry 4.0|
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