Friday, November 4th, 2011
Carnegie Wave Energy is gearing up to announce the location of its first commercial demonstration wave energy project within 90 days as the company sizes up government funding opportunities and five sites around the globe. Carnegie managing director Michael Ottaviano told yesterday’s annual meeting in Fremantle that the WA company had set an “aggressive” timetable and
Friday, November 4th, 2011
The map was made in the style of the Florentine mosaic and it was beautiful. It had a weight of 3.5 tons and contained over 4.5 thousand precious and semiprecious stones. It took 667 workers just 11 months to create it, which shows how much they all worked. Read More
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
For Q3, the company reported revenue of $667 million, down 4% from a year ago, but well above the Street at $618.1 million. Pro forma profits of 71 cents a share crushed the Street consensus at 50 cents. Gross margin improved to 52%, from 48% in Q2 and 50% a year ago. Operating margin was
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Beginning next year and running for four years, some 2,000 residents and business on the Danish island of Bornholm will be the subject of an experiment. The goal: To determine how to develop a grid powered by at least 50 percent renewable energy sources, such as wind power, solar energy and biogas. In announcing its
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
The city and county of Honolulu, Hawaii, Olathe, Kan., Roseville, Calif. and Eden Prairie, Minn. received first place rankings in the 2011 Digital Cities Survey, according to the results announced on Wednesday, Nov. 2. The 11th annual survey spotlights the municipalities that best show how information and communication technology are used to enhance public service. The
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Lukoil plans to acquire a 20 MW wind turbine park in Bulgarian a deal worth EUR 50 M, according to reports of Russian media. The acquisition of wind power plants is to be wrapped up by end-2011 or the beginning of 2012, the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA) announced, citing RIA Novosti. A representative of Lukoil’s
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Russia’s Proton-M carrier rocket with three Glonass-M navigation satellites will be launched on Thursday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) said. “The launch is scheduled for 16:55 Moscow time . The separation of the satellites is slated for 22:45 Moscow time ,” the spokesman said. By
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Greenhouse gas emissions from shipping should be included in the UK’s climate change budgets, the Committee on Climate Change has recommended. Under the Climate Change Act, the UK is committed to cutting all its climate-changing emissions by 80% – based on 1990 levels – by 2050. Read More
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
For the first time the UK now has a single definitive national address and street database: the National Address Gazetteer. The release of the new database is being celebrated at the ‘Everything Happens Somewhere 2011’ conference and exhibition, where Cadcorp is announcing an important new product. The Cadcorp AddressBase Loader is set to simplify access
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Science must look closely at the environment in which fraud could Diederik Stapel, find Robbert Dijkgraaf, president of Science Academy fellowship.”We do know more fraud cases, but this?” “It’s all as bad as we feared in our worst nightmares,” says physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf, president of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. “That he at least eight
