Thursday, August 26th, 2010
ESA – One of the most complex space scientific instruments ever built, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, escorted by astronauts who will fly with it on the Space Shuttle in February 2011. Read More
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
SCOTTISH GOV – Scotland’s communities are being given extra help to improve and enhance their natural environment with new funding for biodiversity projects. Up to £250,000 is being released by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) over the next two years to deliver biodiversity conservation at a local level. Read More
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
BUSINESSWIRE – A strong majority of consumers say being able to see 3D images of prospective purchases online makes them more likely to buy those products, more likely to consider them high quality and less likely to return them, according to an Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) Design Survey conducted in early June. Read More
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
BALTIC IT&T – A total of 25 local and regional organisations from four European regions (Midi-Pyrénées, Navarra, Abruzzo and Latvia) took part in the various activities of the Geomatics Regional Information Society Initiative (GRISI) project – training, establishment of geomatic platforms, and preparation of more than 120 new geographic databases and 27 new Internet sites, with
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
NORWAY POST – The world’s first floating tidal power demonstration plant was last weekend deployed at sea near Harstad, Northern Norway, and is ready for testing. Production of electricity starts in October. This is an important milestone for us. From October the tidal power plant will produce clean, renewable energy from the Gimsøystraumen tidal current at Lofoten
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
TORONTO STAR – In the deadly serious world of utility regulation, it all makes a difference. When the Ontario Energy Board orders a utility like Toronto Hydro to do an inventory of its street-lighting assets, it had better be a thorough one. Read More
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
BBC – Work to build a nuclear power plant at Bushehr began in 1974, but came to a halt in 1979 with the Islamic revolution. The project was revived in the 1990s with assistance from Russia, which is now preparing to begin loading nuclear fuel into the site’s first operational reactor. Satellite images show how the
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
DUTCH NEWS – Rotterdam Port has shown the fastest growth of the three most important sea ports in north-west Europe. The number one position was confirmed by figures released on Tuesday by the Port of Hamburg showing growth in throughput of 8.1% to 58.6 tonnes in the first six months of 2010. Read More
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
BARCELONA REPORTER – Spanish oil firm Repsol (REP.MC) said on Monday a consortium it is part of had found a gas field in Bolivia with reserves of 1 trillion cubic feet and test drilling produced 6 million cubic feet a day. Read More
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
GHANA CHRONICLE – Spending on agricultural research and development (R&D) in Ghana doubled from 151 billion cedis to 352 billion cedis between 2000 and 2008, a study by the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative and the Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI) has indicated. Read More
