Monday, August 1st, 2011
In recent years, nuclear energy was still touted as a necessary bridging technology towards a renewable period. After the disaster in Fukushima, the federal government is now planning the nuclear phase-out within the next 11 years. New coal-and gas-fired power plants should instead be provided at the transition to a largely renewable power supply. Particularly, since the construction
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Incomplete and inaccurate geospatial information can lead to delays in enforcing laws, subsequently triggering conflicts, a lawmaker says. “We have laws that require government regulations on geospatial mapping,” Daryatmo Mardiyanto from the House of Representatives’ Commission VII said Thursday in Bandung at a seminar and workshop on revitalizing geospatial information management at the Bandung Institute of
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Microsoft is partnering with Dell to build a green data centre that will power Bing Maps‘ suite of geospatial imaging applications. The centre is located on the grounds of a Microsoft facility in Boulder, Colorado. Dell claims that the new data centre is highly efficient in energy consumption, thanks to a cooling system that uses
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Applying Geographic Information Systems, known as GIS – as well as software previously used to examine human illness – University of Florida scientists have been able to find locations where clusters of diseased coral exist. In the last 30 years, more than 90 percent of the reef-building coral responsible for maintaining major marine habitats and providing
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Around August 1 a five-man team led by seasoned adventurer Jock Wishart will depart from Resolute Bay, Canada in an attempt to row 724 km (450 miles) to the magnetic North Pole. Throughout the course of the voyage members of the public can track the team online. Known as Row to the Pole, the expedition
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
With the consultation period for HS2 – the plan to create a high-speed rail link between London and the North – having ended on Friday, the Government is now aware of the widespread resistance to the scheme. Yet it insists that it will move forward, because of the advantages to business and the spur to
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
The Atlanta Regional Commission has approved a 30-year plan to spend more than $60 billion on transportation projects across the metro Atlanta area. The approval on Wednesday of the $60.9 billion Plan 2040 project was an update to a transportation list that was last approved by the commission in 2007. It is not related to
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
The survey to assess the exact reserve of bauxite in Jharkhand has been stalled due to protests by villagers fearing displacement. According to a map of the Geological Survey of India and the data available with the Remote Sensing Study, the state, especially the western part, has bauxite reserves spread over an area of around
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
The EDF Group has presented Friday, July 29, a strategic plan for 2011-2015, which foresees a doubling of its investments to increase the lifespan of its nuclear plants in France and enhancing safety. Read More
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
East Africa’s power crisis has continued to deepen with the latest victim being Kenya that started rationing power on Wednesday to industrial consumers across the country. Dimming growth prospects, the energy deficit comes at a time when the region is grappling with high inflation rates, depreciating currencies and a general rise in the cost of living.
