Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
MOSCOW TIMES – Over the past 10 years, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been one of the biggest cheerleaders of Glonass — a Brezhnev-era satellite navigation system that is intended to be an alternative to the U.S.-based GPS system, which has been operating since 1995. Now, the Kremlin is pondering steps to strengthen state control over
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
The city and Guelph Hydro plan to harvest the sun. And you can help. Guelph Hydro plans the installation of thousands of solar panels on municipal, commercial, industrial, institutional and residential structures throughout the city. The project is part of the City of Guelph’s Community Energy Initiative, which “strongly recommends a target of (1,000) roofs of solar
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
NEW ENERGY FOCUS – Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has today (August 16) met with Norwegian state oil firm Statoil to discuss the potential for developing the “world’s first” commercial-scale floating wind farm at one of two Scottish sites. Mr Salmond met with Statoil as part of a visit to Oslo and Stavanger designed to strengthen economic
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
A smart sensor network that is monitoring the quality of drinking water in south-east Queensland has earned CSIRO one of the Australian ICT industry’s highest accolades. At the Australian Information Industry Association’s annual awards in Melbourne, CSIRO was named winner of the 2010 iAward for research and development. Read More
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
The City of Windsor has signed on to become one of Ontario’s first municipal participants to connect its water and wastewater facilities to the next generation of smart grid services. The City of Windsor has agreed to connect its municipal water resources to Sempa Power’s Ancillary Services Network (ASN), a pilot project which will enable Ontario’s
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Five European countries, Norway, Germany, Lituania, Finland and The Netherlands, signed on 29 June in Brussels a memorandum of understanding to commit their financial and political support for the setting up of CESSDA, a European social science data infrastructure. The Council of European Social Science Data Archives ‘CESSDA’ is a network of 20 European archives providing access gateway to important
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
15th International Forestry and Environment Symposium organised by the Department of Forestry and Environmental Science of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura will be held on 26-27 November 2010 under the theme of “Developments in Forestry and Environment in 2010” at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Read More
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Northeastern Rural Electric Membership Corporation (REMC) is able to better serve the energy needs of its growing customer base by using mobile geographic information system (GIS) technology from Esri. The consumer-owned utility supplies electric power to more than 26,000 households and businesses in northeastern Indiana. Northeastern REMC utility linemen once navigated the service territories by memory, armed
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
ESPON – The available overview shows that the beneficiaries come from 26 countries involved in the ESPON 2013 Programme. 14% represents the UK, 8% France and Spain, 6% Italy and Switzerland, 5% Greece, Netherlands and Poland, 4% Finland, Hungary, Romania, Sweden respectively. The list will be updated with the information on the 10 more projects that are
Monday, August 16th, 2010
Australian company Trakblaze International has been chosen by Vietnam National Coal Mineral Industries Group as preferred supplier of in-motion train weighing systems. In 2007 the Vietnamese Government introduced legislation requiring that companies mining minerals for domestic use and export install certified weighing equipment to provide traceable and verified data for statistical and transactional purposes. This drove
