Friday, June 11th, 2010
DER SPIEGEL – Germany’s fastest vehicle runs on electricity. It can hold more than 400 passengers, distributed among eight cars. The Intercity-Express (ICE) train, being built in the Uerdingen district of Krefeld in western Germany, reached 404 kph (251 mph) during a demonstration trial. The area where German engineering company Siemens makes its trains strikes
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
VOLVO RSCH – The Future Urban Transport (FUT) programme – how to deal with complexity – is a research programme financed by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF). The overarching aim of VREF is to contribute to the development of sustainable transportation systems. Today, some three billion people live in cities – more people
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
BBC – Berlin plans to cut the national budget deficit by a record 80bn euros ($96bn; £66bn) by 2014. Only education and research will be spared from the cutbacks, receiving an extra 12 billion euros as planned. “So far we don’t see any impact on space and aeronautics,” Professor Woerner told the BBC. He was
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
SOFIA BULGARIA – Russia may indefinitely delay construction of an oil pipeline across Bulgaria and Greece if Sofia does not complete its revision of the plan in the next few months, the country’s energy minister has said. The possible demise of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis project would likely push Russia into the embrace of Turkey, which has
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
GRIFFITH HACK – According to this report, the UK patent office has launched a new data base cataloguing all the patent applications that are being processed through the fast track channel for clean and sustainable (or cleantech) applications. Under the fast-track scheme it can take as little as nine months to get a patent granted, compared
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
POPSCI – If you can’t make it to South Africa for the World Cup, you can at least take a virtual tour of all the stadiums before you watch the 3-D action. Google has a 3-D tour of all 10 World Cup stadiums and the nine host cities on Google Earth or Earth View in Google Maps.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
L’MONDE FRANCE – The objective of the Ethiopian government does not lack ambition a few years into the impoverished country in hydroelectric power regional exporter of energy, so it is now one of those where public access to Electricity is among the lowest in the world. Read More
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – This is where the climate project “Kuyasa” was set up. It’s the first in the world to get the so-called “Gold Standard,” a quality certification scheme for carbon offsetting. The project uses the funds generated from the carbon offset market to finance itself and help an increasing number of people in the
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
WALL ST JOUR – A joint-venture between the U.K.’s National Grid PLC (NG.LN) and Dutch transmission company TenneT–BritNed–Tuesday began work to lay the first section of marine cable in England for a high-voltage electricity interconnector to link the power grids in the U.K. and the Netherlands. Read More
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
ARIJ – The paper at hand distillates the experiment of the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ) in the development of a local Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Also Known As; Municipal Information System (MIS) for the Beit Sahour Municipality. The development of the SDI is introduced as a step towards e-municipality, where all kind of information and
