Friday, August 5th, 2011
Rebates for Los Angeles solar panel installations are 32% lower under the newly relaunched Solar Initiative Program, which will start accepting applications next month. The program was put on hold in April as the demand for incentives hovered around $112 million, far outpacing the program’s $30-million budget. During the hiatus, the Department of Water and Power was able
Friday, August 5th, 2011
A number of developing countries are taking steps to build their own national satellite programs, seeking more control over remote-sensing data to map and forecast disasters, monitor crop yields and track environmentally driven diseases such as malaria. In a paper published recently in the journal Acta Astronautica, Danielle Wood, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Engineering Systems
Friday, August 5th, 2011
WindSonic is a robust, low cost ultrasonic wind sensor with no moving parts. This 2-axis ultrasonic wind sensor offers maintenance-free wind speed and direction monitoring for true ‘fit and forget’ wind sensing. The Gill WindSonic is a genuine low cost alternative to conventional cup and vane or propeller wind sensors, with all of the advantages of
Friday, August 5th, 2011
Ubisense announces that its Series 7000 real-time location system (RTLS) industrial tags and sensors have been certified for use in China by the country’s stringent regulatory authorities – a development that opens up enormous commercial opportunities to the business, which listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in June.
Friday, August 5th, 2011
Esri will exhibit and teach a course about CityEngine, its software for 3D modeling and urban planning, at the SIGGRAPH 2011 conference in Vancouver, Canada, August 7–11. The SIGGRAPH conference is one of the world’s largest exhibitions for the computer graphics industry.
Friday, August 5th, 2011
The platform for the Danish – Chinese cooperation is the Ministry’s “STRATEGY – knowledge-based collaboration between Denmark and China”. The vision of the strategy is ”… that Denmark and China will grow to be close partners in the knowledge area in the coming years. This will lay the groundwork for adding value to the Danish and
Friday, August 5th, 2011
Chairman Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Shakeel Durring has said that 12 new hydro power projects were discussed in Pakistan-China Joint Energy Working Group (JEWG) meetings that concluded on August 2. Out of the 12 projects, WAPDA has six, while the remaining three will be setup by the private sector, Durrani said in an
Friday, August 5th, 2011
The notion that climate change can present business opportunities is old news. The debate is moving on. With unprecedented private and public sector funds pouring into environmental projects around the world, business leaders are asking which country is leading the green economy race and which markets offer the most attractive returns at least risk. While the
Friday, August 5th, 2011
May 5 to September 16, 2011, the National Geographic Institute is organizing the second edition of the Geoportal. The best applications made from the Geoportal API by professional developers and amateur, will be rewarded. Read More
Friday, August 5th, 2011
A committee of experts from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has agreed that five German beech forests should be declared World Heritage Sites. The committee said they were of “outstanding universal value.” The forests are in the states of Mecklenburg-Pomerania (Jasmund and Müritz National Parks), Brandenburg (Grumsiner Forest), Thuringia (Hainich National Park) and
