Thursday, July 29th, 2010
DAILY ECHO – A deal to build a renewable energy plant at Southampton docks that could power up to half the homes in Southampton is near to being struck, the Daily Echo can reveal. Green energy firms, including big European players, have been in talks with port owner ABP over the past year about building
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
TMC – It’s the world’s second most populous country and a hotbed of opportunity for the cellular industry, but how will the growing base of wireless users in India recharge their mobile handsets? The answer, in part, could be via solar power. Read More
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
PCWORLD – IBM will develop technology to monitor and analyze the state of buildings, roads, water lines and other urban infrastructure in a new laboratory it is opening with Carnegie Mellon University. The IBM Smarter Infrastructure Lab will focus on two areas of research, said Wayne Balta, an IBM vice president in charge of corporate
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Oceanographer John Delaney is building an underwater network of high-definition cameras and sensors to turn the world’s oceans into a massive interactive lab. Delaney and a University of Washington research team are implanting robotic sensor arrays along the Juan de Fuca Ridge and other ocean sites — on the ocean floor and throughout the water
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
WALL ST JOUR – Germany’s wind power sector won’t add as much capacity this year as in 2009, the Federal Association for Wind Energy said Thursday. “We believe that we won’t quite reach the level of last year,” association president Hermann Albers said Thursday in Berlin. Read More
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
TRADE UK – The expertise of UK designers, architects and planners is proving invaluable to Chinese authorities as they seek to adopt a more structured approach to urbanisation and regeneration. To cope with the challenges of rapid urbanisation, many of China’s city authorities have turned to UK planners and designers to help prevent sprawl, protect
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
ITAR TASS – The federal road fund will reach 377 billion roubles in 2011, 348 billion roubles in 2012 and 408 billion roubles in 2013, Kudrin underlined. “The resources for road construction will increase by 60% in the next three years,” he underlined. Alongside, the regional road fund will total 82.9 billion roubles in 2011
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
CSIRO – CSIRO scientists have developed a revolutionary technique for the rapid on-site detection and quantification of petroleum hydrocarbons (commonly derived from crude oil) in soil, silt, sediment, or rock. Read More
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
We will provide reflections on the advances in spatial science made over the last 15 years, and how these advances have been reflected in the book series. We will speak about our future plans. And, above all, we will ask some recent and upcoming authors to introduce their new books. Read More
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc.announces that its subsidiary, Ocean Power Technologies, Ltd, based in Warwick, England has been awardeda £1.5 million (approximately $2.3 million) grant from the South West of England Regional Development Agency (“SWRDA”) for the development of its next generation 500kW PowerBuoy(R) wave power system. The award will further strengthen OPT’s long-term involvement with
