Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

15 Mar 23

UK will avoid a ‘technical recession’ in 2023, chancellor says

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In his first full speech to Parliament, chancellor Jeremy Hunt said that the UK has "proved the doubters wrong" and confirmed that the country will not enter a technical recession in 2023. Announcing the Spring Budget, Hunt stressed predictions that inflation rates will fall from their 10.7 per cent high,…

15 Mar 23

UK urged to ‘transform’ 11 ports to support floating offshore wind boom

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

A report by the Global Wind Energy Council's (GWEC) Floating Offshore Wind Taskforce contains a series of recommendations which could see 34 gigawatts (GW) of floating wind installed in UK waters by 2040 if “decisive action” is taken by the government. Ministers have so far set a target to install…

14 Mar 23

Silvaco TCAD Enables Rapid Development of SiC and GaN Power Devices

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Power devices based on Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN) are driving a rapid market transition to meet the challenging requirements of Automotive, 5G, Industrial, Consumer, High Performance Computing, Aerospace, and Defense markets. Implementing designs with next generation materials such as SiC and GaN is not without its own…

14 Mar 23

Carbon Storage and Hydrogen: Match Made in Heaven?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

About three dozen facilities around the world today capture carbon dioxide from power plants and factories and lock it away underground. They store 45 megatons of carbon dioxide a year. What we need to reach net-zero carbon emissions is to store at least 1 gigaton a year by 2030. At…

14 Mar 23

Shutdown of two nuclear power stations delayed until 2026

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Heysham 1 and Hartlepool nuclear power stations (pictured) are now expected to close in March 2026 – two years later than previously forecast. The extensions are expected to add 6TWh to Centrica’s electricity generation volumes between 2024 and 2026 which equates to around 70 per cent of Centrica’s total nuclear…

13 Mar 23

Cat Toys, Toaster Bots, and Scolding Lamps

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The 2023 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference (HRI) is taking place this week in Stockholm, with the theme of “HRI for all.” It’s a good theme, promoting diversity and inclusion, but it’s also a good reminder that all robots have (or should have) some thought put into how they interact with…

13 Mar 23

Geothermal energy could provide electricity while capturing carbon emissions

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Using Geothermal-Bioenergy and Carbon Capture and Sequestration (BECCS) as an energy source could positively impact the environment, new research has shown. Karan Titus, UC civil and natural resources engineering PhD student, has investigated this type of energy, and how it can be harnessed to remove carbon from the atmosphere. The…

11 Mar 23

False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology. The company’s president, Tom Gage, dubbed…

11 Mar 23

Video Friday: Agilicious

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.HRI 2023: 13–16 March 2023, STOCKHOLMRobotics Summit & Expo: 10–11 May…

10 Mar 23

Ultrathin Metasurface Displays Take Aim at the LCD

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Currently, LCD screens are the most dominant and popular display technology for televisions and monitors, but they are unlikely to get significantly better in the future. Now a new study finds the kind of physics that make microscopic “invisibility cloaks” possible may lead to next-generation “metasurface” displays roughly 1/100 the…

UK will avoid a ‘technical recession’ in 2023, chancellor says

UK urged to ‘transform’ 11 ports to support floating offshore wind boom

Silvaco TCAD Enables Rapid Development of SiC and GaN Power Devices

Carbon Storage and Hydrogen: Match Made in Heaven?

Shutdown of two nuclear power stations delayed until 2026

Cat Toys, Toaster Bots, and Scolding Lamps

Geothermal energy could provide electricity while capturing carbon emissions

False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Video Friday: Agilicious

Ultrathin Metasurface Displays Take Aim at the LCD

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law