Friday, April 29th, 2011
With Chancellor Merkel’s government turning its back on nuclear power, offshore wind parks are set to pick up the slack. But the installation of gigantic turbines in the North and Baltic seas has proven challenging, slow and hindered by bureaucratic hurdles. Could the future of wind be on land after all? Read More
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Kyocera Corporation (President: Tetsuo Kuba) announced that it has supplied approximately 6-megawatts (MW) of the company’s multicrystalline silicon solar modules for a large-scale solar power plant near Turin, Italy. The large-scale solar plant in Cigliano (Piedmont region), with an output of approximately 6MW, is the largest installation in Italy to have been equipped with Kyocera solar
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Satellite navigation is already changing our lives. The search is on for new ideas that could use the European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to improve life further. The European GNSS Agency (GSA) is offering a prize for the best proposal that uses EGNOS – the European satellite-based augmentation system for GPS. Read More
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
The African Development Bank (AfBD) has won the “Best Financial Support in the Power Sector” award presented by Terrapinn* in South Africa. The award recognized the Bank’s range of exceptional financial services for the development of projects. The awards were announced during the Power and Electricity World Africa 2011 conference, which took place in Cape
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
TractBuilder has made creating data easy with its Tools for ArcGIS, and now it is even easier with the Auto-Quartering Tool. For the first time, a simple spreadsheet containing Township-Range-Section information and a legal description can be used to create polygons. “We like making people’s lives easier,” Kyle Souza, Sales Manager for TractBuilder, “that’s why our
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
A Swansea MP has stepped up the fight to extend rail electrification to Swansea by pointing out “weaknesses” in the Government’s findings. Sian James, Labour member for Swansea East, has been campaigning for the modernisation of the whole of the Great Western line. Last week Mrs James met Transport Minister Theresa Villiers to argue that the
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Volcanologists in Iceland had sent fresh samples of the ash to Stipp shortly after the eruption. What the researchers found was that even after being soaked in water for two weeks and stirred, the ash particles – one of which can be seen above – maintained their sharp edges. These ash particles are often covered in
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
The proportion of renewable energy in total Dutch energy usage fell last year to 3.8%, compared with 4.2% in 2009, according to new figures from the national statistics office CBS. The drop is due to an overall increase in energy usage and a reduction in the use of biodiesel, the CBS said. Read More
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
The city of Warsaw continues to expand its network of free wifi hotspot across the city, with coverage in several new locations starting by the beginning of June. Currently, Warsaw’s free wifi internet is available to use in much of the centre, particularly those areas popular with tourists. The Old Town is nearly completely covered with
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Okino Computer Graphics today released its newest v5.6.1 set of JT PLM/MCAD bidirectional import and export converter modules. The ‘JT’ converter modules allow geometry, hierarchy, materials and texture mapping data (assembly data) to be imported and exported to native JT disk-based MCAD files (otherwise called “DirectModel” files). At no additional cost, the JT importer module also
