Thursday, January 19th, 2012
John Hooker was working for the British Geological Survey for a time in 1846 when a good friend sent him fossil samples from an expedition in South America. Read More
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
In order to keep its position as a stable supplier of gas to Europe, Norway has to develop its infrastructure. A gas pipeline from the Barents Sea can be the solution, Norwegian gas infrastructure agency Gassco says in a recent study. Read More
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Oil has a high price: year in and year out, the costs for the damage caused to the environment in the Arab region grow. Environmental protection plays a very marginal role in production and distribution in these economies, said Murad Ahmad Al-Fakih from the Organization for Environmental Protection in Yemen. Soon, Al-Fakih fears, products manufactured
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Several of the web’s largest sites are shutting down for the day in protest of SOPA and ProtectIP, two proposed American bills that opponents say could fundamentally change the infrastructure of the web. Sites participating in the blackout include Wikipedia, Boing Boing, WordPress, Reddit, Imgur, Mojang, and Tucows. Other web giants are planning partial blackouts or offering support in other ways. Mozilla will black out some of
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
The Moscow Government thinks it can do better than the big internet giants Yandex and Google and is introducing its own electronic map service. The authorities’ say what’s on offer at the moment doesn’t really fit the needs of Moscovites who want to report problems with roads and such. So, Moscow has spent 20 billion roubles
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
The last photographs taken by Captain Robert Scott, lost for most of the 20th century, have been bought for the nation in time for the centenary of his doomed expedition to reach the south pole on 17 January 1912. Read More
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Siemens’ estimate for the shift away from nuclear is much higher than the 250-300 billion euros estimate given earlier by Juergen Grossmann, chief executive of Germany’s No.2 utility RWE. Grossmann, however, did not give a time frame for the investments. Siemens’ Energy Sector — which is active in several areas including power transmission, solar, wind and
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
If one were to characterize it in mathematical terms, the trajectory of our civilization is an exponential curve. Throughout the XX th century, energy and natural resources – and logically emissions of greenhouse gases – has increased with population growth. But today, would we have reached a plateau? Would we have begun to reduce our consumption, or at least stabilize? Parsimony
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
The report, “Lessons from recent major earthquakes”, says in the last two years several large earthquakes have caused a “devastating number of fatalities and injuries” as well as widespread damage to property. “The cumulative catastrophic impact of earthquakes on society is overwhelming. Seismic events caused economic losses of over $276 billion in 2010
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
A summit will be held on 6th March to tackle the problem of out-of-date sat nav maps. The TSB’s Informed project looked at exactly this and the PNT group held two follow-on workshops in 2011. We have been in touch with ITS (UK), one of the organisers, to ensure KTN members have an opportunity to contribute. We have
