UK-based, GeoPura develops the “Hydrogen Power Unit” (HPU), a 6m portable shipping container, which can provide 250kVA of (standard three-phase 400V) electrical power (backed up by an 216kWh battery system) to replace on-site diesel generators (with an emissions-free alternative i.e. hydrogen). The HPUs are used – for temporary, supplementary, off grid & backup power – in a) electrical power industry, e.g. National Grid uses one to power low-voltage equipment for innovation testing projects & site operations (trialing it as a potential direct replacement for backup diesel generators across <250 substation sites); Uniper has used one as back-up during a 3-month maintenance outage at one of its plants (to power the outage village, incl. welfare facilities...

In view of their incredible computing capacity, today’s password-based security architecture “does not exist for quantum computers in practice”. While a very fast (regular) computer can try out all combinations of a seriously strong password (e.g. one with 95 characters) in just 14 months (of computing time), a quantum computer would only need fractions of a second (depending on its capacity). In comes Spain-based Quside, which builds quantum random number generators (QRNG) located on a photonic chip, to enable the encryption of messages even quantum computers can’t decrypt. (Note: Quside's QRNG's are an improvement on true random number generators (TRNG), which are often not integrated in systems due to cost or design choice, because they're...