Thursday, August 19th, 2010
ROSCOSMOS – Local Administration of Tverskaya region decided on introduction of GLONASS on all transport vehicles in the regions, through approving relevant resolution. According to local officials, currently GLONASS introduction has somewhat chaotic character. The resolution will help ordering the process. The document also implies acquisition of the navigation and positioning data from each vehicle in
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
BBC – The Smos spacecraft senses the wetness of soils, and its unique instrument has detailed how the earth became saturated in the monsoon rains. The floods, which began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest, are the worst in recorded history. Some 20 million people and 160,000 sq km of land – a fifth of
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Untitled Document ESA -Together with space sensor technology that could be used in new offshore drilling tools, these exciting developments are the result of several technology demonstrator projects just completed for ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme. The wider use in the coming years of unmanned autonomous underwater vehicles in the offshore oil and gas industry calls
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
ABC AUSTRALIA – Australian scientists have mapped out the best places across the nation’s southern coast for generating wave energy, all the way from Geraldton in Western Australia to King Island in Tasmania. A new CSIRO energy atlas shows that if just 10 per cent of the energy generated from waves was harnessed it would meet
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – A Scottish company has won the contract to build one of the world’s most advanced tidal energy turbines. The contract could kickstart a marine energy manufacturing boom in Britain because project developer ScottishPower wants hundreds more turbines to be built in the next few years, creating the prospect of thousands of jobs for Scotland. Read
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
BLDGBLOG – One of the more interesting student projects I’ve seen in a long time used a “document-based” approach to architecture to fabricate an entire fictional world—one in which top secret underground research labs, militarized bacteria, artificial earthquakes, and much more were all found conspiring beneath the streets of Berlin, Baghdad, and Istanbul. Read More
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
NATIONAL UAE – Countries in the MENA region with little or no oil and gas deposits are endowed with abundant sunlight and sparsely occupied land – resources that could make the region a renewable energy powerhouse. The World Bank is providing Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria with a total of US$5.5 billion (Dh20.2bn) in funding for
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The 100 000 tons tanker “Baltica” left Murmansk on Saturday loaded with gas condensate for China. This is the first time a high-tonnage tanker takes the Northern Sea Route from Europe to Asia. Read More
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
EU – Hardly anybody would have forecast 10 years ago that the business world would look as it does today. We use no typewriters any more and most information is available and exchanged electronically. How will the industrial world look in 10 years time? Which products and technologies will we use to produce goods, to do
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
iStockAnalyst – The UK population is expected to continue on its rapid growth trajectory out to 2051, greatly increasing housing requirements. As well as having to meet this demand, housing developers will need to make their projects increasingly sustainable, in compliance with new regulations. This will provide an opportunity for integrated utility companies that can offer
