Sunday, July 11th, 2010
HURRIYET TURKEY – The company’s energy optimization service basically centralizes electrical energy, but also offers packages for all types of energy usage. “The cheapest energy is saved energy,” said Tütengil, adding that Siemens focuses on high performance electricity motors. “There are 15,000 electric motors in Turkey and only 1 percent of the total are low
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
BRGM FRANCE – InfoTerre Geomatics is the gate of access to Geoscience BRGM: Geological maps of 1 / 1 000 000 to 1 / 50 000, records of the Bank’s data logs Basement and geological maps of natural hazards and industrial data on groundwater. InfoTerreTM uses only international interoperability standards published by the Open Geospatial
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
NATURE – The first satellite-derived map of global soil moisture has been unveiled today at the Living Planet Symposium, an Earth-observation conference being held this week in Bergen, Norway. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission — part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) extended ‘living planet’ programme on Earth observation — was launched
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
UUTISET FINLAND – Minister of Housing Jan Vapaavuori says that serious errors on construction are too frequent. According to the newspaper Aamulehti, Vapaavuori would be willing to impose fines for poor building.According to Vapaavuori, the problems in the construction sector stem from factors including haste, indifference, and naiveté on the part of consumers. He calls for
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
TAGYA – According to the press service, the presentation of the first vice-governor of the Kemerovo region, Valentin Mazikin said that the project will make a qualitative breakthrough in the production of grain, vegetables, potatoes. The company “Vaganova” in the project an electronic map of farmland, which allows you to see the acreage, chemical processing and
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Le MONDE FRANCE – Crise forces, energy consumption has declined in France in 2009, 5.2% from 2008 to 259 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe). This led to the fall of CO2, a decrease of 5.7% (- 1.2% in 2008). The renewable energy production (heat and electricity from hydro, wind and photovoltaics) reached 19.9 Mtoe in
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
SCOTLAND GOV – The quality of the built environment affects everyone in Scotland. It is the purpose of architecture and urban design not only to meet our practical needs in housing our activities, but also to respond to the social and cultural values to which we as a nation aspire – to improve the quality
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The company that tried to sell a Mozambican island over the Internet has lost its land use rights, reports Friday’s issue of the weekly paper “Savana”. The company, Venus Comercial, obtained rights to Congo island, in the Quirimbas archipelago, off the coast of the northern province of Cabo Delgado in 2008. The
Friday, July 9th, 2010
BBC – UK Science Minister David Willetts is to say that there is an economic case for Britain to have a strong research base. In his first major speech on science at the Royal Institution, Mr Willetts is to argue the case for scientific research in an age of austerity. Under the previous government spending
Friday, July 9th, 2010
WALL ST JOUR – MapQuest, the No. 2 Internet-mapping service after Google’s, is taking the first steps toward a Wikipedia-like model — in which users would generate the maps themselves and combine the results for everyone to use. The company, a subsidiary of AOL, plans to announce Friday morning that it is launching a site
