Saturday, August 21st, 2010
NORWAY POST – The world’s first floating tidal power demonstration plant was last weekend deployed at sea near Harstad, Northern Norway, and is ready for testing. Production of electricity starts in October. This is an important milestone for us. From October the tidal power plant will produce clean, renewable energy from the Gimsøystraumen tidal current at Lofoten
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
TORONTO STAR – In the deadly serious world of utility regulation, it all makes a difference. When the Ontario Energy Board orders a utility like Toronto Hydro to do an inventory of its street-lighting assets, it had better be a thorough one. Read More
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
BBC – Work to build a nuclear power plant at Bushehr began in 1974, but came to a halt in 1979 with the Islamic revolution. The project was revived in the 1990s with assistance from Russia, which is now preparing to begin loading nuclear fuel into the site’s first operational reactor. Satellite images show how the
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
DUTCH NEWS – Rotterdam Port has shown the fastest growth of the three most important sea ports in north-west Europe. The number one position was confirmed by figures released on Tuesday by the Port of Hamburg showing growth in throughput of 8.1% to 58.6 tonnes in the first six months of 2010. Read More
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
BARCELONA REPORTER – Spanish oil firm Repsol (REP.MC) said on Monday a consortium it is part of had found a gas field in Bolivia with reserves of 1 trillion cubic feet and test drilling produced 6 million cubic feet a day. Read More
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
GHANA CHRONICLE – Spending on agricultural research and development (R&D) in Ghana doubled from 151 billion cedis to 352 billion cedis between 2000 and 2008, a study by the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative and the Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI) has indicated. Read More
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
ROSCOSMOS – Local Administration of Tverskaya region decided on introduction of GLONASS on all transport vehicles in the regions, through approving relevant resolution. According to local officials, currently GLONASS introduction has somewhat chaotic character. The resolution will help ordering the process. The document also implies acquisition of the navigation and positioning data from each vehicle in
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
BBC – The Smos spacecraft senses the wetness of soils, and its unique instrument has detailed how the earth became saturated in the monsoon rains. The floods, which began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest, are the worst in recorded history. Some 20 million people and 160,000 sq km of land – a fifth of
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Untitled Document ESA -Together with space sensor technology that could be used in new offshore drilling tools, these exciting developments are the result of several technology demonstrator projects just completed for ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme. The wider use in the coming years of unmanned autonomous underwater vehicles in the offshore oil and gas industry calls
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
ABC AUSTRALIA – Australian scientists have mapped out the best places across the nation’s southern coast for generating wave energy, all the way from Geraldton in Western Australia to King Island in Tasmania. A new CSIRO energy atlas shows that if just 10 per cent of the energy generated from waves was harnessed it would meet
