This white paper examines the current challenges for clean energy infrastructure and identifies solutions that industrial clusters, transport and logistics industries, and the wider clean energy value chain can jointly explore in order to accelerate its deployment. Thirteen new industrial clusters from Australia, Brazil, Colombia, India, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, …
it is the same story everywhere: governments' incompetence is leading to serious risks to public health and the environment. Now, it is Britain's turn. Hundreds of toxic chemicals
ever thought of living in a house that might be smarter than you are? Well, get ready because soon enough, your room could be giving you a few tips on better living. Aficionados of science fiction will recall how, years ago, authors such as Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury had …
radio stations that sound almost as good as a compact disc could be with us soon. Broadcasters in Europe and Canada are already testing these high-quality digital broadcasts, but the special sets needed to receive them are so expensive that nobody is making them. Now, a British company has come …
thousands of cattle in Britain that appear to be healthy may still be infected by mad cow disease, say Swiss researchers. Quoting data collected in Switzerland, these researchers say that 450,000 healthy looking cattle could be affected by the dreaded disease. The study shows that of 1,761 apparently healthy cattle …
Technological breakthroughs may help reduce the average cost of wave power. British researchers have developed a few techniques that are able generate electricity for under US $1 per kilowatt-hour (kwh). This is the cost below which energy production becomes competitive. Stephen Salter at the University of Edinburgh, UK, has developed …
several toxic chemicals in British rivers are going undetected as pollution inspectors are using ineffective monitoring techniques. A study initiated by the uk government has identified two major problems with the testing methods of the British environment agency. First, the environment agency tests river water for only a few pollutants …
liquid crystal displays (lcds) are ubiquitous in modern electronic devices. From cellular phones to laptop computers and now televisions, they form an integral part of most consumer electronics. Given their importance, a lot of research is going on to improve the existing technology and have qualitatively better displays for the …
farmers can now grow tobacco plants on demand or crops that produce pesticides only when under attack. Scientists have found a gene that can be switched on in tobacco plants or other crops in the presence of ethanol to get the desired result. When foreign genes are inserted into a …
The gym? Forget it. You can body build even without getting off that comfortable couch. Mental exercise can increase strength almost as much as regular and strenuous physical practice, British researchers announced recently. Dave Smith and his team from the Manchester Metropolitan University, uk, measured the push that 18 male …
Britain's programme of research into Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) left vital gaps, a member of the government's Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee told the official BSE inquiry recently. Jeffery Almond from University of Reading, UK, believes that the agriculture ministry should have commissioned more research into the threat posed to human …
an eight - year - old British boy spoke his first words after swimming with dolphins, reported British newspapers. Nikki Brice, starved of oxygen at birth, had been left unable to speak although he had the physical ability. But after a few days at the Human Dolphin Therapy Centre in …
algae , bacteria and fungi play an important role in cloud formation, helping in condensation of water droplets, a process known as nucleation, under which, water molecules adhere to small microscopic particles. Bill Hamilton, biologist at Oxford University, uk , and Tim Lenton, biologist at East Anglia University, uk , …
a conventional fireworks-based device fashioned into a blowtorch may soon end up saving thousands of lives apart form the huge amounts of money spent in destroying landmines each year. This simple, safe and relatively-inexpensive device, designed by British defence researchers, simply burns up a landmine to ashes without actually having …
This paper explores the potential implications of climate change for the use and management of water resources in Britain. It is based on a review of simulations of changes in river flows, groundwater recharge and river water quality. These simulations imply, under feasible climate change scenarios, that annual, winter and …
metal pollution from salmon farms has caused serious threats to wildlife in some of Scotland's sea lochs. According to a study of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency ( sepa ), levels of copper and zinc in sediments beneath fish farms is 24 times as high as the safety limits proposed …
in the South Wales Vale of Tory, uk , the crumbling neglected landscaped garden's of the 18th century, Middleton estate is being transformed into the world's largest single span greenhouse. According to authorities, the elegant structure of steel and glass will be the centre for the new National Botanical Gardens …
a new technology has been developed to reduce vehicular pollution. Developed by researchers in the uk, it reduces the amount of pollutants in the exhaust fumes of automobiles. A report on the new technology in the British Commercial News , says that the level of pollutants after using the technique …
UK's child haemophiliacs are to be given genetically-engineered clotting agents to remove any risk of their contracting Creutzfeltd-Jacob disease (CJD), a government spokesperson announced recently. A number of Britons could be incubating the new variant of CJD linked to meat from mad cow disease-infected cattle. Haemophiliacs, who receive clotting factors …
eighteen environmentalists have been arrested in Vancouver, Canada, for opposing the logging of some of the remaining pristine rainforest valleys in the Great Bear Rainforests. The uk is playing a major role in forest destruction as it continues to import timber and pulp from British Columbia's ancient temperate rainforests to …
