Democrats in Congress have been against the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality rules from the beginning. They’ve had the signatures in favor of restoring the rules since January, along with a companion House bill (with 80 co-sponsors). Senator Edward J….
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Fight for the Future has announced another day of action aimed at encouraging support of a Congressional vote to overturn the FCC’s removal of net neutrality protections. In December, the FCC voted to overturn Obama-era net neutrality protections, a…
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Many nations have mulled the idea of a floating nuclear power plant and while countries like the United States and China have thought about offshore nuclear reactors, Russia has gone ahead and actually launched one. The country has launched what it claims to be the first floating nuclear power plant ever, it’s called the Academik Lomonosov. Based in the Baltic Sea, it will be capable of producing 70 megawatt of electricity.
The floating power plant will take its start from St. Petersberg form where it will be towed around Norway to a Russian town called Murmansk to fill up on nuclear fuel. The floating power plant will then make its way to the Arctic where it’s going to provide power for the oil industry town of Pevek. It’s also going to power a desalination plant and oil drilling rigs.
The ship has two nuclear reactors on board and is capable of providing enough power for a city of more than 100,000 people. The project reportedly cost $232 million and work began about a decade ago. It has received criticism from groups like Greenpeace, though.
Greenpeace nuclear expert Jan Haverkamp says that having “Nuclear reactors bobbing around the Arctic Ocean will pose a shockingly obvious threat to a fragile environment which is already under enormous pressure from climate change.”
World’s First Floating Nuclear Power Plant Launched By Russia , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Many car manufacturers are now working on all-electric cars and they’re also trying to leverage their battery technology in order to gain a footing in the electric revolution that’s sweeping various industries. Tesla was one of the first car makers to do this when it launched Tesla Energy in 2015 and later came out with its Powerwall home battery pack. Mercedes-Benz did something similar last year but it has now decided to discontinue its home battery pack.
Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler had launched its Mercedes-Benz Energy subsidiary last year which subsequently launched a home battery pack to compete with Tesla’s Powerwall but the company has now decided to kill the product.
Mercedes-Benz teamed up with Vivint for this product. It’s the biggest competitor to Tesla Energy in the United States. However, the program didn’t quite achieve the results that the company was hoping for. One reason for that is the fact that the company’s home battery pack was just too expensive.
The company’s battery pack was overengineered as it was a vehicle battery pack and it wasn’t developed to be a stationary home battery pack. “It’s not necessary to have a car battery at home: they don’t move, they don’t freeze. It’s overdesigned,” said a spokesperson for Mercedes-Benz.
The team that was working on this project in the United States will now move to other parts of the company’s operations, according to Mercedes-Benz.
Mercedes-Benz Discontinues Its Home Battery Pack , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
AMD recently launched a new generation of its Ryzen processors that are built on the revamped 12nm FinFET process and it’s now looking forward to what it plans on doing next year. AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed in a recent earnings call with investors that the company is going to release its Zen 2 chips in 2019 and it won’t be a launch on a small scale, the AMD 7nm Zen 2 chips will see a volume launch in 2019.
“We have a 7nm GPU based on Vega that we’ll sample later this year. We have a 7nm server CPU that we’ll sample later this year. And then, obviously, we have a number of products that are planned for 2019 as well,” Dr. Su said on the call.
AMD recently provided a teaser of its 7nm Vega GPU. The company is testing it in its labs and has said that it’s on track to ship samples of the card to customers later this year.
Dr. Su said that the 7nm Zen 2 based product that AMD is going to sample to customers later this year is going to enter volume production in 2019, adding that the company believes that the adoption rate of its second-generation chips could “potentially be higher” than the adoption rate of the previous generation, primarily because customers will be more familiar with AMDs systems and its products.
AMD 7nm Zen 2 Chips Will Be Sampled This Year , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
“I immediately wanted to make a film with Spacey,” the Italian director said.
“They’re taking away the ladder and then punishing people for jumping out the window.”
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