Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – A Scottish company has won the contract to build one of the world’s most advanced tidal energy turbines. The contract could kickstart a marine energy manufacturing boom in Britain because project developer ScottishPower wants hundreds more turbines to be built in the next few years, creating the prospect of thousands of jobs for Scotland. Read
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
BLDGBLOG – One of the more interesting student projects I’ve seen in a long time used a “document-based” approach to architecture to fabricate an entire fictional world—one in which top secret underground research labs, militarized bacteria, artificial earthquakes, and much more were all found conspiring beneath the streets of Berlin, Baghdad, and Istanbul. Read More
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
NATIONAL UAE – Countries in the MENA region with little or no oil and gas deposits are endowed with abundant sunlight and sparsely occupied land – resources that could make the region a renewable energy powerhouse. The World Bank is providing Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria with a total of US$5.5 billion (Dh20.2bn) in funding for
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The 100 000 tons tanker “Baltica” left Murmansk on Saturday loaded with gas condensate for China. This is the first time a high-tonnage tanker takes the Northern Sea Route from Europe to Asia. Read More
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
EU – Hardly anybody would have forecast 10 years ago that the business world would look as it does today. We use no typewriters any more and most information is available and exchanged electronically. How will the industrial world look in 10 years time? Which products and technologies will we use to produce goods, to do
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
iStockAnalyst – The UK population is expected to continue on its rapid growth trajectory out to 2051, greatly increasing housing requirements. As well as having to meet this demand, housing developers will need to make their projects increasingly sustainable, in compliance with new regulations. This will provide an opportunity for integrated utility companies that can offer
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
MOSCOW TIMES – Over the past 10 years, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been one of the biggest cheerleaders of Glonass — a Brezhnev-era satellite navigation system that is intended to be an alternative to the U.S.-based GPS system, which has been operating since 1995. Now, the Kremlin is pondering steps to strengthen state control over
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
NEW ENERGY FOCUS – Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has today (August 16) met with Norwegian state oil firm Statoil to discuss the potential for developing the “world’s first” commercial-scale floating wind farm at one of two Scottish sites. Mr Salmond met with Statoil as part of a visit to Oslo and Stavanger designed to strengthen economic
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
ESPON – The available overview shows that the beneficiaries come from 26 countries involved in the ESPON 2013 Programme. 14% represents the UK, 8% France and Spain, 6% Italy and Switzerland, 5% Greece, Netherlands and Poland, 4% Finland, Hungary, Romania, Sweden respectively. The list will be updated with the information on the 10 more projects that are
Monday, August 16th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – Tapping away furiously at her well-worn keyboard, close to tears, Ory Okolloh feared Kenya was on the brink of civil war. A media blackout ushered the country into 2008, ensuring there was little coverage of a crisis that would go on to claim more than 1,100 lives and displace more than a quarter of
