Thursday, August 4th, 2011
There’s not much business in making gadgets for archaeologists, but that has not stopped the modern day Indiana Jones types from adapting the tools of other trades for their painstaking explorations of ancient cities, battlefields and burial grounds. Their latest triumph comes from hacking Microsoft’s Kinect gaming device to create a handheld 3-D scanner capable
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Australia laid out a vision Thursday to join the handful of countries with high-speed rail lines, saying the up to 108 billion Australian dollars (US$116.16 billion) project in its eastern states could ease bottlenecks on its transport network as its population surges. The federal government said the rail link would be capable of carrying 54 million
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
GE has signed a deal to provide 228 wind turbines and the accompanying operations and maintenance services for Wind Capital Group’s projects in Oklahoma and Kansas. This pair of projects will provide more than 350 megawatts of reliable, clean renewable energy for the Midwestern US and create jobs and economic stimulus for local landowners and
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Vertical City Asia is a new international design competition in which student teams of ten international universities will focus the urban design of a one square kilometer territory of an Asian city. This year’s edition focused on one square kilometer of Chengdou. This area, to house 100,000 people living and working, sets the stage for
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
The Dutch Maasgeul is subject to very heavy shipping traffic. For guarantying this traffic’s safe passage, up-to-date and accurate information on the water depths is of utmost importance. Whenever the water depth drops below specified values, dredging operations are executed. For ensuring dredging to be done timely (safety), but not too often (costs), regular measurements
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
The 450 mile challenge is only now possible because of the increase in seasonal ice melt due to climate change. Led by arctic adventurer Jock Wishart, the rowers started from Resolute Bay in northern Canada on 29 July. “I’ve been interested in climate change since my time at Southampton and I’m looking forward to seeing conditions
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Key recommendations of the Citizen Parliamentary Committee on Energy (CPCE) include expanded commercial openness to improve competition in electricity generation and distribution, and regulation of electricity rates. The committee also proposed two fundamental pillars to guide future energy policy in Chile – energy efficiency and promotion of non-conventional renewable energy (NCRE). Chile has announced a goal
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
During a Wednesday conference call about the navigation device maker’s second-quarter earnings, CFO Kevin Rauckmansaid Garmin’s largest segment saw a 21 percent drop in North America. Although higher-than-expected sales in Europe and Asia partially offset the decline, the automotive segment experienced a 19 percent overall decrease for the quarter. Read More
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
While a series of recent national studies suggests that smart grid investments are a “no-brainer,” evaluations in the real world of utility investment analysis are anything but easy. A new Smart Grid Research Consortium white paper describes these difficulties and provides ten recommendations to assist utilities in evaluating smart grid investments. The white paper, “The Utility
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Arctic ice cover reached the lowest level for July recorded by satellites from 1979 to 2011. Average ice extent for this past July was 7.92 million square kilometres. That’s 210,000 km below the previous record low for the month, set in July 2007, reported the NSIDC’s Colorado-based scientists on Aug. 3. Read More
