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Renewables overtake gas for the first time in Europe’s electricity generation
A study by the accelerating clean energy transition organization Ember has published the results of its latest European Electricity Review 2023 study. They show that wind and solar generated a record 22% of electricity in the EU in 2022, overtaking fossil gas for the first time and again outstripping coal. At the same time, the share of gas decreased to 20%.
The study found that coal accounted for 16% of all EU electricity generation last year, up from 14.5% in 2021. Ember believes this is a short-term trend that is being overshadowed by the ongoing deployment of clean energy. For comparison, the share of coal in 2000 was just over 30%.
In context, the growth in coal production was not significant: coal-fired power remained below the level of 2018 and added only 0.3% to global coal production. Despite importing an additional 22 million tons of coal during 2022, the EU only used a third of it. Countries are just as committed to phasing out coal as they were before the crisis.
Ember
The report says that 15 GW of new wind capacity was built in the EU in 2022. Solar has been rolled out on an even larger scale, with the report tracking a 24% rise in electricity generation and saying that the EU-20 set new solar generation records during the year.
In 2022, hydropower and nuclear power continued to play the largest role in the electricity generation mix in Europe, despite a slight reduction in their share due to reduced production due to difficult production conditions during hot and dry summer weather.
Components
Nvidia says its Grace CPU Superchip is twice as fast as x86-compatible processors for the same power consumption
Nvidia said that its Arm-based Grace CPU Superchip processor in tests with real workloads shows a twofold increase in performance compared to x86-compatible CPUs in the same range of power consumption. With which processors Nvidia compared, it is not specified.
The company says these figures mean data centers can handle twice as much peak traffic for the same power consumption if they switch to Grace. Or they can cut their energy bills by almost half while maintaining productivity.
Nvidia itself says that Grace provides such results thanks to three main factors. Firstly, these are 72 Arm Neoverse V2 cores in one CPU (Grace CPU Superchip, we recall, contains two CPUs on one board), and secondly, in fact, the combination of two such CPUs via the NVLink-C2C interface with a bandwidth of 900 GB / s , third, the use of server-class LPDDR5X memory.
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Realme GT Neo5 SE on Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 tested in AnTuTu. The result is like recent flagships
Qualcomm officially unveiled mid-range Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 single-chip system a few days ago, and already one of the first production models based on this SoC – Realme GT Neo5 SE – has been spotted in the AnTuTu benchmark.
The result is impressive. Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 is not a top platform at all, but a phone based on it has broken the mark of 1 million points. Until recently, only flagships were capable of this. For comparison, this is the level of the Dimensity 9000 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platforms.
As for the specifications of the Realme GT Neo5 SE, it has 16 GB of LPDDR5X RAM, 1 TB (!) of UFS 3.1 memory and Android 13 out of the box. This smartphone will go on sale on April 3rd.
Electric Cars
Truck “Ural” tried on a hybrid power plant. The company showed its first such prototype and set its sights on an all-electric version.
The Ural Automobile Plant demonstrated its first prototype of an electric truck equipped with a hybrid power plant.
A car with a 4×2 wheel formula is still called simply “Ural”. It is powered by an LNG engine that is used as a generator to charge a battery, which in turn powers an electric motor. At the moment, it is known that the power reserve is only 100 km, but in this case, we mean the ability of a car to drive such a distance solely due to the battery. Since the car is also equipped with an internal combustion engine, as a result, in general, the power reserve is quite worthy of 500 km.
The company is reportedly planning to develop an all-electric truck and then a hydrogen fuel cell version. But so far we are only talking about prototypes, but there is no data on serial machines with similar power plants.
Nvidia says its Grace CPU Superchip is twice as fast as x86-compatible processors for the same power consumption
Nvidia said that its Arm-based Grace CPU Superchip processor in tests with real workloads shows a twofold increase in performance...
Realme GT Neo5 SE on Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 tested in AnTuTu. The result is like recent flagships
Qualcomm officially unveiled mid-range Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 single-chip system a few days ago, and already one of the...
Truck “Ural” tried on a hybrid power plant. The company showed its first such prototype and set its sights on an all-electric version.
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