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, …
an english seaside resort when the summer has gone, the day is dull, and the gray sea rolls onto empty beaches, is a stern test of morale and spirit for any bouncy extrovert, even for politicians. Yet, the politicians of this so-called home of parliamentary democracy scarify their souls every …
TRUCK manufacturers in UK never had it so good. And all it took for their trucks to sell like never before were new EU guidelines on noise and emission requirements in commercial vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tonnes. The new guidelines - Euro 2 - came into effect on all …
Cytocell, a biotech firm from Oxfordshire, UK, has developed a simple, safe and reliable test that uses foetal blood cells that leak through the placenta into the mother's circulation, to detect genetic abnormalities. The technique may eventually replace amniocentesis, which presents a one-in-200 chance of a miscarriage. But the test …
BUDDING FORTH: Bangalore-based Sri Vasavi Florex Ltd, a 100 per cent export-oriented floriculture unit, has tied up with Sayag Nurseries of Israel to set up a joint venture unit in Doddaballapur, near Bangalore. Israel would provide the technical know-how on cultivation methods, plants, machinery and plant material and market the …
AS A result of industrial and mining operations, extensive acres of agricultural land are poisoned worldwide due to toxic effluents. Scientists at Oxford Universitv LJK, have found a possible solution to this growing menace by producing genetically engineered cabbages, cauliflowers arid Brussels sprouts, that would soak up toxic metals and …
Britain's Northern Telecom has become the world's first major electronics company to phase out ozone-depleting CFCs from its operations. The achievement was made possible by eliminating the need for solvent cleaning by using an inert atmosphere of nitrogen during soldering. This allows the use of less active fluxes which do …
The mad cow controversy has raised its ugly head once again. An as yet unpublished study conducted by British government scientists says that hundreds of Britons are likely to die every year from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), the human equivalent of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or the mad cow disease. The …
Researchers at Nottingham university UK, have identified 35 different kinds of inheritable genes responsible for a frnit's colour, taste and ripeness through hormonal control. Experts will soon be able to produce a fruit with two to three different colours by reconstructing the inherited genes. Thereafter, people will be able to …
A simple and low-cost system has been devised in UK for restoring deserts. Called 'LandCover', the system is a growing medium based on a matrix that is an ultra water absorber and re-establishes agricultural growth on barren, sterile land. The matrix consists of seeds, fertilisers, pesticides and other agrochemicals in …
STEPHEN Forster, director of groundwater and geotechnical surveys at the British Geological Survey, who has conducted studies of groundwater in 30 countries, reports that the resource is becoming increasingly polluted. He also points out that it is being abstracted at unsustainable rates in many areas, seriously depleting reserves. "An uncontrolled …
Silver solutions used in photography pose an environmental threat if disposed off through the drainage system. Therefore, silver is generally recovered for reuse. Electrolysis, the traditional method of recycling silver, salvages only 80 per cent of it. Now, Bruno Pollet of Coventry University in the UK claims that 95 per …
People at risk of flooding in the uk can now be warned by a new automated telephone system called open talk. Developed by the uk Environment Agency and Kingston Communications of Kingston-upon-Hull, the service relies on the combination of weather, radar and river height sensors that radio readings to the …
A ROBOT clerk that can turn pages, load fax machines, staple documents, put office rubbish in bins and open cans has gone on trial with severely disabled people in the uk. Currently on trail at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, the us $5,0000 pc system can be controlled by a joystick on …
ENGINEERs at Vickers, Britain's leading tank manufacturers, are working on plans to replace today's lumbe- ring diesel-driven vehicles with silent, electrically powered tanks made of plastic that would use stealth techno- logy to evade enemy radar in the battlefield. With detachable suits of armour made from layers of reinforced plastic, …
The British Nuclear Fuels (BNF), which operates the Sellafield reprocessing plant in north-west England, has landed in the dock. A lawsuit has been slapped by four Irish residents who want BNF to close the plant which is about 180 km from the eastern coast of the Republic of Ireland. They …
Fever that follows viral infection is believed to be a defence mechanism of the body. High temperature is thought to harm virus more than the host. However, researchers at the University of Oxford, UK, have discovered that one virus has a chilling effect on the defences of the host. Vaccinia …
among the 30 to 40 species of seahorse identified worldwide, many face an uncertain future due to the increasing numbers claimed by traditional medicine, pollution and habitat loss. It is estimated that at least 20 million dried seahorses are sold every year for traditional Chinese medicine and as curios, while …
