Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Our analysis of current data centre investments has found that despite significant advances in making data centres more energy efficient, the sector as a whole is largely ignoring the importance of using renewable energy. Instead, the IT sector is fuelling its expansion, and the storage of your data, with dirty energy sources, like coal and
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
The security agency Sub S.A., which former Detective Hynek Vlas for three years co-owned with the new Interior Minister Jan Kubice, won a tender three weeks ago that was organised by the Ministry of Transport, according to an interview Vlas gave daily Mladá fronta Dnes (MfD). Kubice announced on April 21 that he would give up his
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Twenty-five years on, the disaster at Chernobyl casts a long shadow over the nuclear industry, which has been compounded by recent events at Fukushima in Japan. Nuclear power had a rapid rise in the decades after World War II, but the growth in reactor numbers has levelled off. Use the map and audio commentary below
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF), Spain’s leading train manufacturer, and the only listed company in the sector, may have company soon in the Spanish stock exchange. Its rival Talgo, which years back made an aborted attempt to list, is once again considering tapping the bourse for funding. Deliberations on the issue have got to the
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Any industry that mislays 25-30% of its product in the process of delivering it might reasonably be thought to have a problem. Yet that, according to the World Bank, is the case for the world’s water companies. Though water is cheap, it is not free. According to a report published by the Bank in 2006,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Oikos East Africa has assigned a young Leo Mongandre (26 years old) of Arusha to lead a team of engineers from Italy, Arusha Technical College and from the University of Dar es Salaam to promote use of small rivers, streams and water falls to produce hydro electric power for rural areas. Mr. Mongandre works for
Monday, April 25th, 2011
The Delhi government has decided to set up a separate agency to maintain street furniture, new pavements and green stretch developed in the run up to last year’s Commonwealth Games amid complaints about their inefficient upkeep. The agency, to be set up with an initial corpus of Rs 10 crore, will look after the upkeep of
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Two flowlines linking subsea installations on the Tordis field in the North Sea (Illus.) with the Gullfaks C platform are to be replaced by operator Statoil after scheduled inspections found corrosion. Statoil is joining forces with its licence partners to procure the new links, with replacement of the first planned for the second half of this
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Scotland’s first fully protected marine reserve, and only the second in the UK, is already providing commercial and conservation benefits, according to new research. After only two years in operation, it is already showing positive signs for both fishermen and conservationists, according to a study by the University of York and the Community of Arran Seabed
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Abu Dhabi has stepped into space as its first satellite, which would provide military, commercial as well as civilian communication, was successfully launched on Saturday. The Ariane 5 rocket carrying Y1A of Yahsat, a unit of Abu Dhabi’s investment arm the Mubadala Development Company, lifted off from the European Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana,
