Kroger’s new system will feature a dome that will capture biogas from food byproducts at the plant, which will then be harnessed to generate electricity.

Local municipal officials and state lawmakers joined with construction executives, union officials and conservationists to call attention to critically needed clean water infrastructure projects.

The testing is part of a state initiative to protect children from all sources of lead poisoning in the aftermath of the Flint disaster.

Model is largest of its kind in the world.

Cree has created a 3,000K version of its IG Series of luminaires for vehicle parking, and has added 0-10V dimming as a standard feature. The light use waveguides to spread where it is wanted, which Cree brands WaveMax. for low glare, little light is emitted outside +/-50 downwards – see the data sheet. “Parking structure …

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At the NMI’s 20th anniversary Awards last night, Renishaw was celebrated as Company of the Year, with it being hailed as a world leader in the development of precision-measurement systems.

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So what are the four pains of migration from an 8-bit MCU and how can a programmable device approach help to limit the pain, writes Raul Hernandez Arthur Few 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) users actively want to go through the experience of migrating a design to a 32-bit processing platform. The drawbacks of migration are, by …

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Shining 670nm red light on bees could ameliorate damage caused by neonicotinoid insecticides, according University College London and the strangely named university City, University of London. “The researchers found that when shining a specific wavelength of red light (670nm) it significantly reduced bee death rates and improved cell energy levels, mobility and visual function in animals …

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Building the mobile network for 5G will be completely different from what has gone before says the UK government. The Department of Culture, Media & Sport has commissioned Ordnance Survey (OS) to develop a new mapping tool to plan the national rollout of 5G wireless networks. The 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey and the Met Office will …

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Would you believe it, I am writing this away from Electronics Weekly Towers via a remote connection and using a Raspberry Pi 3, kindly donated to Electronics Weekly by Element 14 (RS Components has been just as generous to EW with Raspberry Pis in the past. The computer is quick and responsive – at least …

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