Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
COPENHAGEN POST – Recently unveiled designs for the proposed bridge between Denmark and Germany might have you looking twice. Not necessarily because of its size though – even though at 19km, the bridge will be one of the world’s longest. Read More
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
DER SPIEGEL – Grass-roots movements are protesting against carbon capture and storage pilot projects in various parts of Germany. Geologist Andreas Dahmke talks to SPIEGEL about the shortsightedness of the protests and why nuclear power is much more dangerous than CCS technology. Read More
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
GLOBAL TELCOM – The satellite, built by Boeing, has a 22-metre diameter reflector that is designed to allow LightSquared to provide mobile broadband service in rural areas of the US. It will be joined by SkyTerra 2 at a later date. LightSquared plans to set up a wholesale-only mobile broadband network, using conventional towers in populated areas
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
GRAPHISOFT – They’re young. They’re sharp. They’re the rising stars of architecture, and they’re appearing Thursday at Build Boston 2010. Representatives of three enterprising firms will join a panel discussion, “BIM and the Young Firm,” on Thursday, November 18, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. The session will explore how
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Part of the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP), the new railway designs are to connect some of the major cities of Ethiopia. From Mekelle up North; Galafi and Djibouti in the East; Awash and Sebeta; and Jimma down South, the 1,833.6km-long railway will be providing service to these locations. The Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC)
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – There are several reasons why Graciela Chichilnisky can claim to be an innovator. She was the architect of the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon market, the lead author on the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that won a Nobel Prize, and reputedly even created the term “sustainable development”. Her most recent venture is the Global Thermostat (globalthermostat.com)pilot plant
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
WEB URBANIST – Not only does ‘The Guitar Store’ in Southampton, England look exactly like a guitar amp (especially when the security grate is down) – but the knobs go up to 11. Read More
Monday, November 15th, 2010
MATIMOP – T he Eureka cluster for water, has been officially labeled by the EUREKA Program. ACQUEAU is supported by more than 20 industries from Europe including our national water company Mekorot. Acqueau will support the funding applied research with an objective of 500 millions Euros for 10 years. It will support the development of know-how and new technologies developments addressing
Monday, November 15th, 2010
The project will assess GNSS signal reception and its impact on basic positioning service capabilities, and it will look at the performance of commercial, ‘off-the-shelf’ GNSS receivers in terms of multi-signal positioning. The GSC project was launched in March 2009 and will run for about two years. At a recent GSC workshop in Brussels, European
Monday, November 15th, 2010
STOCKHOLM LOCAL – Sweden’s Volvo Group announced on Thursday that it will become the world’s first vehicle manufacturer to join the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) Climate Savers Program. Read More
