Readers discuss the importance of getting terminology right, the potential of tidal power in the UK, and more. Send your letters to The Editor, E&T, Futures Place, Kings Way, Stevenage, Herts, SG1 2UA, UK, or to [email protected] We reserve the right to edit letters and to use submissions in any other format.
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The UK faces one of its greatest ever engineering challenges as it seeks to combat climate change while keeping the lights on. If it is to succeed, the pace of delivery will be crucial. developers looking to connect renewable energy projects to the electricity grid are facing delays of more than 15 years, threatening the UK's net-zero ambitions, E&T has heard. As the country's target to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2035 looms ever closer, developers, engineering firms and consultancies have spoken to E&T about the connection delays that they say are putting both the climate targets and energy security at risk. In the last 18 months, the time it takes for developers to connect renewable energy projects to the national grid has soared, and Peter Aston, a specialist connections engineer at the consultancy Roadnight Taylor, says the waiting times are now a major problem.
{"title":"Exclusive: Delays threaten net-zero goals","authors":"C. Mcglone","doi":"10.1049/et.2023.0211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/et.2023.0211","url":null,"abstract":"The UK faces one of its greatest ever engineering challenges as it seeks to combat climate change while keeping the lights on. If it is to succeed, the pace of delivery will be crucial. developers looking to connect renewable energy projects to the electricity grid are facing delays of more than 15 years, threatening the UK's net-zero ambitions, E&T has heard. As the country's target to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2035 looms ever closer, developers, engineering firms and consultancies have spoken to E&T about the connection delays that they say are putting both the climate targets and energy security at risk. In the last 18 months, the time it takes for developers to connect renewable energy projects to the national grid has soared, and Peter Aston, a specialist connections engineer at the consultancy Roadnight Taylor, says the waiting times are now a major problem.","PeriodicalId":11578,"journal":{"name":"Engineering & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135424707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GENERATIVE AI art has exploded onto the scene over the past few months through advanced online platforms like DALL-E2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, which enable anyone with access to a smartphone or PC to create highly polished art by typing in simple text instructions. The technology can bring outlandish and otherworldly creations to life in super-realistic detail. Type in `Cookie Monster climbing the Shard' and you'll see the children's TV character incongruously scaling the tower. Type `Taylor Swift commanding a legion of the undead' and a disturbing image of the pop star will appear as if conjured from the bowels of hell itself. The concept of using AI to make art might seem revolutionary, but experiments programming computers to mimic human creativity in fact date back several decades. OpenAI has refused to share the image data DALL-E 2 was trained on, but Stable Diffusion's code is open-source, and it shares details of the database of images used to train its model. As these tools become ubiquitous and as their capabilities to produce realistic images become more advanced, it will become ever more difficult to accurately and reliably identify which images are `real', and which are generated by AI. This leads to significant risks to democracy, both through the potential for fake images to be reported as real, and through increasing scepticism about the authenticity of real images.
{"title":"The rapid rise of AI art","authors":"S. Cousins","doi":"10.1049/et.2023.3208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/et.2023.3208","url":null,"abstract":"GENERATIVE AI art has exploded onto the scene over the past few months through advanced online platforms like DALL-E2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, which enable anyone with access to a smartphone or PC to create highly polished art by typing in simple text instructions. The technology can bring outlandish and otherworldly creations to life in super-realistic detail. Type in `Cookie Monster climbing the Shard' and you'll see the children's TV character incongruously scaling the tower. Type `Taylor Swift commanding a legion of the undead' and a disturbing image of the pop star will appear as if conjured from the bowels of hell itself. The concept of using AI to make art might seem revolutionary, but experiments programming computers to mimic human creativity in fact date back several decades. OpenAI has refused to share the image data DALL-E 2 was trained on, but Stable Diffusion's code is open-source, and it shares details of the database of images used to train its model. As these tools become ubiquitous and as their capabilities to produce realistic images become more advanced, it will become ever more difficult to accurately and reliably identify which images are `real', and which are generated by AI. This leads to significant risks to democracy, both through the potential for fake images to be reported as real, and through increasing scepticism about the authenticity of real images.","PeriodicalId":11578,"journal":{"name":"Engineering & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135424713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Credit where credit's due' is not a phrase that rang true for Granville T Woods. The man who would go on to be known as the 'Black Edison' didn't have the easiest start in life for an engineer.
{"title":"Regulars - Columnist: The Eccentric Engineer. Electrical engineering: The forgotten great African American inventor","authors":"J. Pollard","doi":"10.1049/et.2023.0226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/et.2023.0226","url":null,"abstract":"Credit where credit's due' is not a phrase that rang true for Granville T Woods. The man who would go on to be known as the 'Black Edison' didn't have the easiest start in life for an engineer.","PeriodicalId":11578,"journal":{"name":"Engineering & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135424718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The nature of museum exhibitions mean they are full of history, but technology can bring the lessons of the past to life - in some cases, almost literally. In the late 20th century, museums underwent a transformation, shedding their image as places with roomfuls of static exhibits in glass cabinets featuring information-heavy labels but little context. Today most have some interactivity elements, whether it is a touchscreen display or virtual reality, as used by the Tate Modern in London to depict Modigliani's Paris studio from 1919 in the artist's retrospective exhibition. This article discusses topics such as AR (augmented reality) experiences/glasses, animated 3D holograms, 3D audio and 3D modelling in the museum context.
{"title":"Museum exhibits brought to life","authors":"C. Hayes","doi":"10.1049/et.2023.3209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/et.2023.3209","url":null,"abstract":"The nature of museum exhibitions mean they are full of history, but technology can bring the lessons of the past to life - in some cases, almost literally. In the late 20th century, museums underwent a transformation, shedding their image as places with roomfuls of static exhibits in glass cabinets featuring information-heavy labels but little context. Today most have some interactivity elements, whether it is a touchscreen display or virtual reality, as used by the Tate Modern in London to depict Modigliani's Paris studio from 1919 in the artist's retrospective exhibition. This article discusses topics such as AR (augmented reality) experiences/glasses, animated 3D holograms, 3D audio and 3D modelling in the museum context.","PeriodicalId":11578,"journal":{"name":"Engineering & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135424710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As ART HAS become more ideas-based and less about reproduction of the world around us, engineering's role in it has grown in importance. Creating gravity defying mobiles, rearranging the pieces of an exploded shed, building an inside-out sculpture of a house, and designing a fountain from tipping water hoppers, are all 20th-century works of art whose success is underpinned by engineering. How much of what we call art or engineering is about context? Do the materials and technology we use matter? And can the passage of time change our views on what is or isn't art?
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This article explores the intersection between engineering and art, highlighting some of the most iconic designs that embody both form and function. Despite the perception that science and art are two separate domains, there are engineers and artists who have seamlessly merged these disciplines to create breathtaking industrial aesthetics. The article examines the biographical perspective of six engineering creations, from the Clifton Suspension Bridge to the Queen Elizabeth 2 ocean liner, and also pays tribute to one of the greatest artist-engineers of all time, Leonardo da Vinci. Other examples on this list include the Shard building in London, which combines stunning architectural design with advanced engineering techniques, the iconic Aston-Mini car that showcases sleek design and efficient engineering, and the iPod, which revolutionized the music industry with its innovative design and user-friendly interface. Through these examples, the article showcases how engineering can transcend its functional purpose and become a work of art.
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Everyday products that claim to be `sustainable' or `better for the environment' may be making misleading claims, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has warned.Shoppers spent over £130bn on fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) last year, which includes household essentials like food and drink, cleaning products, and personal care items. A significant number of these are marketed as green or environmentally friendly, including up to 91 per cent of all dishwashing items and 100 per cent of toilet products, the CMA said. The CMA has also produced the Green Claims Code, a guide to help businesses understand how to communicate their green credentials while avoiding the risk of misleading shoppers.
{"title":"Competition watchdog to clamp down on 'greenwashing'","authors":"","doi":"10.1049/et.2023.0204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/et.2023.0204","url":null,"abstract":"Everyday products that claim to be `sustainable' or `better for the environment' may be making misleading claims, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has warned.Shoppers spent over £130bn on fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) last year, which includes household essentials like food and drink, cleaning products, and personal care items. A significant number of these are marketed as green or environmentally friendly, including up to 91 per cent of all dishwashing items and 100 per cent of toilet products, the CMA said. The CMA has also produced the Green Claims Code, a guide to help businesses understand how to communicate their green credentials while avoiding the risk of misleading shoppers.","PeriodicalId":11578,"journal":{"name":"Engineering & Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135424706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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