Scotland
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The V&A Dundee is an undulating modern museum set on the banks of Scotland's longest river that marks the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma's first foray into the UK.
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UK Space Agency has announced that Melness on the north coast of Scotland has been chosen for the country's first vertical launch spaceport with an initial grant of £2.5 million (US$3.3 million) to develop the site, which will be used to launch small satellites into orbit.
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Water-cooling systems have long been used in computers, but how do you scale that up for huge data centers? According to Microsoft, you drop the data center to the bottom of the ocean. As Phase 2 of Project Natick, the company has just deployed a data center in the frigid waters off Scotland.
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Offshore wind farms can tap into the higher average wind speeds over the ocean, but can only be built in relatively shallow water. Floating turbines can help harvest wind energy from above deeper waters, and now the world’s first floating wind farm has just fired up off the coast of Scotland.
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Scotland: the land of mist and mountains long associated with kilts, bagpipes, haggis ... and now space launches. British startup Orbex announced that it will build a rocket production facility in Scotland and is scouting for a launch site in the country to send small payloads into low Earth orbit.
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The tidal power MeyGen project is now officially underway, with Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, unveiling four 1.5 MW turbines, which together make up Phase 1A of the project, at an event in the Nigg Energy Park in Scotland.
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The good news: The Loch Ness Monster has been captured on sonar. The bad news: "Nessie" is a prop from a Sherlock Holmes film that sank in the loch in 1969.
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In what is claimed to be the first floating wind farm in the world, five wind turbines with a capacity of six megawatts each will be set on floating structures and located some 15 miles (25 km) off the northeast coast of Scotland.
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In a move that Star Trek's Mister Scott would approve of, Scottish distiller Ballantine’s has developed a glass for sipping whisky in zero gravity. The cleverly conceived Space Glass might well be a more attractive proposition for astronauts than plastic bags and straws.
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UK-based sustainable building firm build different recently completed work on an energy-efficient prefabricated home dubbed Schoolmasters. The house follows Passivhaus principles, draws most of its energy from renewable sources.
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Scotland's Albatern is putting a modular spin on renewable energy generation. WaveNET is a scalable array of floating "Squid" generator units that convert wave energy into electricity, as their buoyant arms rise and fall with the motion of the waves. The bigger the grid, the more efficient it gets.
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Scottish start-up Celtic Renewables, based in Edinburgh, has achieved proof of concept in producing biofuel and other useful products from the waste by-products of the country’s £4.3 billion (US$6.8 billion) whisky industry.
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