Monday, April 25th, 2011
The coalition has signalled its intention to direct the Green Investment Bank’s fund towards low-carbon technology (Special report: Green policy, 23 April). But the Institution of Engineering and Technology is arguing that the bank should also support energy-efficiency innovations in manufacturing. The bank’s aims are to deliver economic growth, facilitate the transition to a green
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Anyone who reads Chapter 7 of Agenda 21 and then reads his local comprehensive land-use plan will immediately recognize that most of the provisions of the local land-use plan come directly from Agenda 21. More often than not, the elected officials who adopt these plans have never read Agenda 21, and many have never even
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Japan’s Advanced Land Observing Satellite, one of the world’s foremost remote sensing platforms, inexplicably lost power Friday, likely ending its mission mapping Earth and monitoring natural disasters, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Read More
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Kenya planned to force telecoms operators to share key infrastructure to reduce sabotage sparked by intense rivalry among competitors, a government official said yesterday. Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary in Kenya’s ministry of information and communication cited frequent cuts to fibre optic cables, which trigger outages, hamper business operations and unnerve investors, as a reason. “We will have
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Today GPS is a common and extremely useful tool. Europeans wanted to refine its accuracy by developing EGNOS, the precursor of the Galileo constellation. We look at satellite navigation and its applications. Read More
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
KPN’s earnings from mobile phone calls and texting are down because consumers are increasingly using special applications (apps) to access free services over the internet. This includes internet-based telephony such as Skype as well as Facebook and other free messaging services. Read More
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
For the time being, the Caribbean islands are almost entirely dependent on oil. Renewable energy plays a negligible role in the region’s energy supply despite the fact that geographical and climate conditions are ideal. Theoretically, the islands could meet all their electricity needs with geothermal energy and hydropower. Slowly but surely, that switch is happening,
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
London 2012 Olympic organisers have published the first environment report for next year’s Games. The report says it is on target to cut the carbon footprint by 100,000 tonnes of carbon emissions in the procurement of materials and venue construction. Organisers say they are on track to deliver the world’s first “truly sustainable” Olympic Games,
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Samara city became the venue of the large-scale photo session, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight. Satellite imagery of the largest square in Europe – the Kuibyshev Square – was carried out during the tele-marathon “Let’s go! 50” in early April 2011. Students of Samara universities lined up forming the
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck Monday, April 18 the northeast coast of New Zealand, announced the American Institute of Geophysics USGS. The Center for the Pacific tsunami warning issued an alert, but felt that there was no risk of a major tidal surge. The earthquake occurred Tuesday at 1 pm local 02 Tuesday
