Global electricity review 2024
Renewables generated a record 30 percent of global electricity in 2023, driven by growth in solar and wind especially from China, according to the Global Electricity Review 2024 released by the global
Energy
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Have gun, will shoot
DON'T KEEP guns at home for the temptation to use them may be too strong to control. According to a recent US study, firearms kept at home increase by three times the risk of murder by a family
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Helping bacteria float
OIL-EATING bacteria, useful in cleaning up slicks, will soon have water wings, helping to keep them afloat in water. Using gene-splicing techniques, researchers at the University of Massachusetts,
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Follow the camphor
Remember how Hansel and Gretel followed a trail of bread crumbs back home? Australian scientists have engineered an industrial robot that spits out camphor, which it can later detect and follow. The
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Marine census bit by bit
OCTOPUSES, sting rays and other marine creatures may soon have their first encounter with a personal computer (PC). Bruce W Macdonald, a marine engineer at the Australian Institute of Marine Science
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Clinton s costly gifts
There is more than meets the eye in Clinton s emphasis on clean energy during his recent visit to India
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Ivan Illich 1926 2002
His thought leads out of the prison of routinized, sterile, preconceived notions
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Modernising energy
China's attempts at modernising its energy industry will cause more than 100,000 coal workers to be laid off immediately, while hundreds of thousands more will be retrenched in the coming years. The
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Cooking with compost
Sulabh International, which has designed and installed over 2,000 public lavatories in slums and resettlement colonies, has just developed a lavatory design that recycles compost to generate biogas
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It s money, stupid
Waste can fuel savings in cement plants
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Testy drive
The multinational ranks third but its performance cannot be a badge of success on its huge corporate shoulders