Category: Technology

Offshore wind farms - setting the course required

Offshore wind farms - setting the course required

Posted by | 6 Feb 2024 | , , , | 1

The European offshore wind sector is facing a Herculean task in order to build the necessary infrastructure to achieve the climate targets that have been set. This is shown by the results report presented in January 2024 by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E). The European Network ENTSO-E, based in Brussels, currently consists of 40 transmission system operators, represents 36 countries and is responsible for the secure and coordinated operation of the European electricity grid, the largest interconnected electricity grid in the world. Planning instrument With its Offshore Network Development Plan (ONDP), ENTSO-E is presenting a planning instrument for the first time and its ten-year network development plan shows how offshore and onshore developments are to be integrated,...

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Search for unexploded ordnance on the seabed

Search for unexploded ordnance on the seabed

Posted by | 1 Feb 2024 | , , | 0

Kennen Sie die Abkürzung UXO? Die Abkürzung steht für „Unexploded Ordnance“, nicht explodierte Munition, umgangssprachlich auch Blindgänger genannt. Hierbei handelt es sich zumeist um Kampfmittelaltlasten, wie Raketen, Granaten oder Bomben, die nach Abschuss oder Abwurf nicht oder nicht vollständig explodiert sind. In der deutschen Nord- und Ostsee lagern davon ca. 1,6 Millionen Tonnen konventioneller Munition und rund 5.000 Tonnen chemischer Kampfstoffe, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg durch Militäroperationen oder danach durch Verklappung versenkt wurden. Diese jahrzehntealten Sprengstoffe stellen stets eine ernsthafte Gefahr dar. Allgemein werden diese bei Gefährdung der Schifffahrt durch die Kampfmittelräumdienste (KRD) entschärft, geborgen und der einzigen deutschen...

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Great Britain - Laser weapon successfully tested

Great Britain - Laser weapon successfully tested

Posted by | 25 Jan 2024 | , , , | 1

London - The UK has moved a step closer to the military use of lasers after successfully trialling its new laser project. The UK Ministry of Defence announced that the "DragonFire" energy system has shot down several drones with laser beams while flying off the coast of Scotland for the first time. Joint project The UK military is pursuing this project with UK industry (MBDA UK, Leonardo UK and QinetiQ) as an effective and cost-efficient way of countering the growing threat from drones and drone swarms. The exact range of DragonFire has not been disclosed, but according to the UK Ministry of Defence, it could provide a...

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Shipping company and sailors develop unique concept

Shipping company and sailors develop unique concept

Posted by | 19 Jan 2024 | , , , | 0

Hamburg: The merchant shipping industry is under pressure. The EU wants the European fleet to be climate-neutral by 2050. To achieve this goal, shipping companies are experimenting with innovative forms of propulsion. These include hydrogen-based fuels, but also age-old methods such as sail propulsion. The long-established Hamburg shipping company Hapag-Lloyd is currently developing a container ship with sail propulsion. Marineforum.online reported on this on 18 December 2023, but now further details have been announced and the internationally renowned sailing professional Boris Herrmann from "Team Malizia" is now a partner of Hapag-Lloyd. Concept The plan is to build a new ship with a load capacity of 4,500 standard 20-foot containers. According to the current design, the freighter will be 261 metres...

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Russia's LNG projects make progress despite sanctions

Russia's LNG projects make progress despite sanctions

Posted by | 18 Jan 2024 | , , , , | 0

Russia's largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), Novatek, has completed the first line of its "Arctic LNG 2" project despite US and EU sanctions. The first LNG deliveries are scheduled to be shipped in the first quarter of 2024. PROFILE Arctic LNG 2 will have three production strings that can produce a total of 19.8 million tonnes per year. Each line will therefore have a capacity of 6.6 million tonnes. The other two production lines are expected to go into operation by 2026. Special feature: each production line will not be firmly founded in the permafrost, as is usually the case, but will be floating on gravity-based structures (GBS) in the Gulf of Ob....

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