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Solar Orbiter: one year in space
Imperial’s magnetometer instrument aboard the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has seen a successful and eventful first year in space.
Since the spacecraft launched on 10 February 2020, the magnetometer (MAG) has taken billions of measurements of the magnetic field coming from the Sun, revealing new insights into the solar wind and how it creates ‘space weather’.
After spending over ten years designing and building the instrument, it is fabulous to be getting all this data back, revealing the secrets of the solar wind. Helen O’Brien
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India to be biggest driver of global energy demand growth in next two decades: IEA
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February 10, 2021
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India to make up a quarter of global demand growth during 2019-2040; reliance on oil imports to rise above 90% by 2040; gas import dependence to climb above 60% by 2040
India will be the main driver of rising demand for energy over the next two decades, accounting for 25 per cent of global growth, and is set to overtake the European Union as the world’s third-biggest energy consumer by 2030, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.
India’s energy consumption is expected to nearly double as the nation’s gross domestic product expands to an estimated $8.6 trillion by 2040 under its current national policy scenario, the IEA said in its India Energy Outlook 2021 released on Tuesday.
Image: Gov Facility Services Ltd.
Plans to rollout solar PV across two Southern England prisons have been unveiled by Gov Facility Services Ltd (GFSL).
Rooftop solar is to be installed at HMP Bure near Norwich in Norfolk, to reduce reliance on the existing electric load by 17% and save 79 tonnes of CO2 a year. It comes after six months of planning, with the installation of the array is to be completed by the end of March 2021.
A second project is also underway at Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire, GFSL said, where ground-based solar panels are being installed. The installation is scheduled to be completed in July.