Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
As the Turkish government strives to develop alternative energy supplies, wind-turbine maker Vestas is preparing for tough competition to increase its market share. Speaking to Bloomberg News, Mehmet Ali Neyzi, the managing director in charge of Turkey and the Middle East for Vestas, says the firm currently commands a market share of 30 percent. Read
Monday, June 20th, 2011
It is now almost two years since the announcement that the embattled National Express franchise running along the east coast mainline was to be formally renationalised, establishing a new operator, East Coast Rail, connecting much of the North East and Yorkshire with both London and Scotland. At the time, based on discussions and survey results
Monday, June 20th, 2011
Firefighters and rescuers in Russia's Far East extinguished nine forest fires over the past 24 hours and continue battling 20 more forest fires, the regional emergencies ministry said on Sunday. "Satellite monitoring and aircraft surveillance registered a total of 29 forest fires in the past 24 hours; nine of them were extinguished and nine more
Monday, June 20th, 2011
Fancy travelling from Paris to Tokyo in two and a half hours? Do you yearn for the Concorde days? Aerospace group EADS, owner of planemaker Airbus, thinks it has the answer — a hypersonic jet that flies above the atmosphere, yet takes off from a regular runway. Read more
Monday, June 20th, 2011
The British government could massively subsidise the Irish wind energy industry under proposals to be considered in London today. Britain believes the west coast and the seas around Ireland can provide it with a large amount of its renewable energy and could be willing to subsidise offshore wind farms there. Industry groups here say such a move
Monday, June 20th, 2011
When the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was published in 2007, there was a lack of data on the Arctic, so the panel left a big source of potential sea-level-rise out of its projections for this century. It estimated a conservative rise of about 18 to 59 centimeters. Many scientists have suspected
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
The ministry of water resources has asked for a report from the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) on the building activity by China on the bend of the Yarlang Tsangpo — that’s what the Brahmaputra River is called in Mandarin. The ministry of external affairs, however, claims that there is no cause for worry about China’s reported plans
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
The largest generations in the nation’s history, Baby Boomers and their children, will be hugely influential in redefining living and working environments for decades to come. Downtown cores and outlying suburbs will bear the brunt of the new pressure for growth, said Patrick Phillips, CEO of the Urban Land Institute at the annual conference of the
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
Ireland’s unspoiled, windswept west coast could become the focus of a new wave of wind farm construction in the wake of a high-level diplomatic meeting to be held tomorrow in London. UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, Taoiseach Enda Kenny and other senior members of the British-Irish Council will gather to discuss a plan to
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
U.S. technology pioneer IBM turns 100 years old on Thursday and while “Big Blue” is no longer the dominant player in the computer industry it remains a force to be reckoned with. With a market capitalization of 97 billion, IBM is the world’s 14th most valuable technology company, well behind California gadget-maker Apple’s $304 billion
