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Europe plans a North Sea grid
- J. Blau
- Engineering
- 1 March 2010
The European Union hopes to generate a fifth of its electricity from renewable energies by 2020. But that can't be done unless its member states can easily move that electricity from one country to… Expand
Europe's semiconductor makers are back in the game
- J. Blau
- Engineering
- 1 February 2003
European chipmakers have bounced back after being declared nearly dead almost two decades ago - and despite one of the worst downturns in the global semiconductor industry. Three of the world's top… Expand
Talk Is Cheap
- J. Blau
- Engineering
- IEEE Spectrum
- 1 October 2006
The first-generation of low-cost handsets are now being delivered in developing countries such as Bangladesh, India, Nigeria and Yemen. These supercheap phones have been stripped of everything except… Expand
Germany faces a shortage of engineers
- J. Blau
- Engineering
- 22 August 2011
Even loosening immigration won't fill the gap, say experts – Germany needs to address the growing number of job openings for engineers if it hopes to keep its mighty manufacturing machine roaring… Expand
Car talk - [update]
- J. Blau
- Engineering
- IEEE Spectrum
- 1 October 2008
Under pressure to improve safety and reduce traffic congestion, fuel consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions, the European Union has spawned a batch of projects to give cars the ability to… Expand
News analysis: Wi-Fi hotspot networks sprout like mushrooms
- J. Blau
- Engineering
- 1 September 2002
What began as a plaything among technology buffs in the United States has quietly evolved into the fastest-growing wireless data application in the world. All over, networks based on the IEEE's… Expand
Telephone TV [TV broadcasting]
- J. Blau
- Computer Science
- IEEE Spectrum
- 1 June 2005
TLDR
NSA surveillance sparks talk of nat ional internets
- J. Blau
- Engineering
- 3 February 2014
Just imagine the "network of all networks," the globe-spanning Internet, becoming a loose web of tightly guarded, nearly impermeable regional or even national networks. It seems antithetical to the… Expand
Carbon Caps for European Cars
- J. Blau
- Engineering
- IEEE Spectrum
- 1 June 2007
Nowadays, European automobiles generate about one-fifth of the European economy's total carbon dioxide emissions, compared with almost a third in the United States. This paper discusses how European… Expand