Monday, July 4th, 2011
Although remote sensing is one of the most powerful and cost-effective monitoring tools, some processes require high spatial (less than 500 meters) and temporal (less than a few hours) resolutions that current remote sensing systems cannot provide. Furthermore, satellite and air-borne imagery is expensive and dependent on weather conditions, target locations, revisiting periods, and satellite
Monday, July 4th, 2011
Temperature@lert WiFi Edition 220 is a high-performance device that monitors the ambient temperature in your server room, office, lab, residence, commercial building, heating and air conditioning system or other points of interest and alerts you via email when the temperature rises or falls outside your acceptable range. The WiFi 220 can be configured with one
Monday, July 4th, 2011
A cargo train filled with laptops and LCD screens has left Chongqing, a mega-city in China’s less-developed western regions, starting its 13-day trip to Duisburg, Germany, which marks the official launch of the new transcontinental rail freight route. The new rail route witnessed its official opening on Thursday night, after three test runs since March last
Monday, July 4th, 2011
Canada grows 10 percent of the world’s forest cover and 30 percent of the world’s boreal forest. There are approximately 347.7 million hectares of forests in Canada. During the past 35–40 years, Canada has converted 3.3 million hectares of its forestland to other uses, which is about 1 percent of its total forested area.
Monday, July 4th, 2011
Cellular networks such as LightSquared’s transmit at much higher power than do satellite-based systems — as much as 1 billion times as high, according to some critics. In tests, the LTE network overwhelmed GPS receivers, such as in-car navigation systems, that were trying to lock on to weaker signals coming from GPS satellites. At a
Monday, July 4th, 2011
France became the first country in the world to ban the production of shale gasthrough the so-called hydraulic fracturing, lawmakers give the final vote on new piece of legislation. In hydraulic fracturing, liquid chemicals are injected under high pressure into the ground to let out gas dissolved in a special type of rock known as shale, in order fornatural gas to
Monday, July 4th, 2011
Zorlu Doğal Elektrik, a sister company of Turkish energy producer Zorlu Enerji, will construct the country’s largest geothermal power station in Kızıldere in the southwestern province of Denizli. Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation and Fuji Electric, both world-renowned companies, won the tender to build the power station, which will provide 60 megawatts of electrical power and 50 megawatts
Monday, July 4th, 2011
The EU ‘green’ market has taken a battering recently after consistently performing well over the previous five years to become a $142bn entity. It has been accessed by Gulf industries seeking funds to invest in projects designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions, writes Farah Halime. EU carbon prices have fallen to their lowest point in more
Monday, July 4th, 2011
A new augmented reality program recreates the Berlin Wall and provides renderings of the Cold War structure at the exact site where it used to exist using GPS coordinates. The application is just one of many demonstrating the consumer application of technologies that, only a few years ago, were still the exclusive domain of science
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
The National Geochemical Survey of Australia (NGSA) project has just completed the first geochemical atlas of Australia based on the multi-element analysis of transported regolith samples collected at the outlet of large catchments covering most of the continent. The project, which commenced in January 2007, was funded under the Onshore Energy Security Program and the geological surveys
