Thursday, July 14th, 2011
The decision to roll up DSBFirst’s Swedish operations in an orderly fashion, according to DSB managing director Klaus Pedersen, staves offs the company’s bankruptcy and ensures that service for the 200,000 daily passengers on its routes in Sweden and Denmark will continue. Read More
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Ireland’s State research ship, Celtic explorer, has embarked on an expedition to map a new underwater eco-system on the floor of the Atlantic sea. The joint British and Irish mission is led by Dr Andy Wheeler from University College Cork. It includes over 30 crew members and a National Geographic televison crew. Read More
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Germany’s energy agency is warning that one of the German reactors mothballed in the wake of Fukushima may have to be restarted to make up for possible power shortages this winter and next. Berlin is also using money earmarked for energy efficiency to subsidize coal-fired power plants. Read More
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Stock markets, war, your trip to the country: we rely on the Global Positioning System for an awful lot these days. Yet the entire network is controlled by eight men and women who − in every sense − carry the world on their shoulders. At 23 years old, Joshua Williams seems a little young to be
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
A large complex of small Christian churches has been gradually unearthed by Bulgarian archaeologists in downtown Sofia during continuing excavations at the construction sites of the Sofia Metro. During the excavations near the Serdica metro station and the TZUM department store in the downtown of the Bulgarian capital last summer, the archaeologists found the remains of a medieval church. Read More
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Following successful injection of 6 Globalstar-2 satellites into the targeted orbit by Russian Fregat upper stage, the control of the spacecraft was taken over by the customer. Soyuz-2.1a with Globalstars lifted off today at 06.27 MSK from Baikonur. Injection of the Globalstar satellites completed at 08.07. Flight qualified in 2000, Fregat is an autonomous and flexible upper stage
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Some 55% of land in the Netherlands is used for agriculture, according to new research from the national statistics office CBS. Despite the impression that the Netherlands is very built-up, only 8% of the country is occupied by buildings. Some 12% is woodland and 20% water. The rest is semi-build, roads and railways and recreational land,
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Seven towns in the Lake Constance region have combined efforts to run their own, independent energy company. Despite a few hurdles, they hope to create a trend that might challenge the power of Germany’s big providers. Regionalwerk Bodensee – a small energy company in the Lake Constance region of southern Germany – places a lot
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
The Government announced a $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation as part of the package, to encourage investment in renewable energy. Andrew Richards of Pacific Hydro says the package will allow companies to better plan future projects. He says the $23-a-tonne a carbon price is key to creating a more stable market for investment. Read More
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s clean energy company, has completed groundwork for what is to be the world’s biggest offshore wind farm – in London’s Thames Estuary – as it refocuses its strategy at home to include energy drawn from the skies. The company, which is building the 1 gigawatt array with partners Denmark’s Dong Energy and
