Thursday, July 29th, 2010
DAILY ECHO – A deal to build a renewable energy plant at Southampton docks that could power up to half the homes in Southampton is near to being struck, the Daily Echo can reveal. Green energy firms, including big European players, have been in talks with port owner ABP over the past year about building
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
TMC – It’s the world’s second most populous country and a hotbed of opportunity for the cellular industry, but how will the growing base of wireless users in India recharge their mobile handsets? The answer, in part, could be via solar power. Read More
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
PCWORLD – IBM will develop technology to monitor and analyze the state of buildings, roads, water lines and other urban infrastructure in a new laboratory it is opening with Carnegie Mellon University. The IBM Smarter Infrastructure Lab will focus on two areas of research, said Wayne Balta, an IBM vice president in charge of corporate
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
WALL ST JOUR – Germany’s wind power sector won’t add as much capacity this year as in 2009, the Federal Association for Wind Energy said Thursday. “We believe that we won’t quite reach the level of last year,” association president Hermann Albers said Thursday in Berlin. Read More
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
TRADE UK – The expertise of UK designers, architects and planners is proving invaluable to Chinese authorities as they seek to adopt a more structured approach to urbanisation and regeneration. To cope with the challenges of rapid urbanisation, many of China’s city authorities have turned to UK planners and designers to help prevent sprawl, protect
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
ITAR TASS – The federal road fund will reach 377 billion roubles in 2011, 348 billion roubles in 2012 and 408 billion roubles in 2013, Kudrin underlined. “The resources for road construction will increase by 60% in the next three years,” he underlined. Alongside, the regional road fund will total 82.9 billion roubles in 2011
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
CSIRO – CSIRO scientists have developed a revolutionary technique for the rapid on-site detection and quantification of petroleum hydrocarbons (commonly derived from crude oil) in soil, silt, sediment, or rock. Read More
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
We will provide reflections on the advances in spatial science made over the last 15 years, and how these advances have been reflected in the book series. We will speak about our future plans. And, above all, we will ask some recent and upcoming authors to introduce their new books. Read More
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
ENV TECHNOLOGY – Airborne remote sensing data, supplied by Bluesky (UK), was used as part of a PhD study carried out within the project. The digital aerial photography, Colour Infrared Imagery (CIR) and photogrammetrically derived digital height models were used to model the flow of agricultural pollutants and assess the diffusive effect on the landscape. Read
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – The Plastiki, made from 12,500 plastic bottles, reached Sydney on Monday after just over four months at sea. Its journey began in San Francisco on March 20, carrying a six-member crew. The purpose of the voyage was to raise environmental awareness, and the 18-meter-long boat’s design reflected its goal. The ship’s
