Monday, August 2nd, 2010
PEAK ENERGY – The ancient port city of Jaffa, today a part of Tel Aviv, has added one more attraction to its historical harbor as a new sea wave power plant is completed.The Israeli tidal wave energy firm S.D.E. have completed the construction of its first large scale sea wave power plant capable of producing
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
They are just hints but still, such tantalizing hints of ancient city walls, a basalt gate, and buildings immolated in a mysterious fire thousands of years ago. High-tech methods, known as remote sensing, are “seeing” through the ground at the University of Toronto’s archeological dig in south Turkey, with everything but X-ray vision: This year,
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
EuroGEOSS for Biodiversity – New approaches to monitoring and forecasting at the global scale. Read More
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Best Practices in Maintaining and Updating Seamless Data Coverage in a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. Best Practices in Maintaining and Updating Seamless Data Coverage in a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. Read More
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
EU – INSPIRE and NSDI Implementation in Europe: Its status 2009. Read More
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
NOVINTE BULGARIA – Bulgaria’s PM Boyko Borisov and the Minister for Regional Development, Rosen Plevneliev, will make the first groundbreaking of Lot 3 of the Trakiya Highway on Monday. The whole length of Lot 3, connecting the Bulgarian town of Nova Zagora and the city of Yambol, is 34,3 km. It will include two lanes in each direction. Read More
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
SCOTSMAN – SNP ministers are poised to end the government’s ownership of Scottish Water to raise more than £1 billion pounds for other major projects. The utility is currently fully owned by the government. Read More
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Scotiabank has signaled its support for businesses looking to cut their energy costs. The firm announced in a release on Friday that its commercial and small business banking units have signed deals with three local companies in the small, medium and large categories to finance ‘green’ projects aimed at helping them source renewable energy equipment,
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Convective rainfall is often focalized in areas of moisture convergence. A close relationship between precipitation and fast variations of vertically-integrated water vapour (IWV) has been found in numerous cases. Therefore, continuous monitoring of atmospheric humidity and its spatial distribution is crucial to the operational forecaster for a proper nowcasting of heavy rainfall events. The microwave
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Giant blades lay strewn around the field as if a helicopter had crashed. Leaving in a rush on a summer day four years ago, Glen Lux mistakenly forgot to unplug the brake and a strong gust brought his big wind machine to life, the six blades spinning in an out-of-control blur. Read More