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, …
the latest spinoff of the much-debated phenomenon of global warming is a bank account which aims to help combat the climatic problem. The Dutch-based Triodos Bank recently launched the Earth Saver Account in uk which aims to use the amount raised "primarily to finance renewable energy projects and energy projects …
David Adermann, a lecturer of photography in the University of Newcastle, UK, has invented an indestructible camera which is likely to help scientists and military experts in filming activities on the site of an explosion. Adermann claims that no other camera can work as close to the explosion site as …
A fleet of buses powered by electricity and guided by a satellite navigation system will soon be launched in London. The progress of the 12-seater buses will be monitored using global positioning signal satellites that allow an operator to plan the most efficient route and change the route to suit …
brent Spar, the infamous offshore oil storage platform, may yet be given a burial at sea. Plans are being finalised for its deep-sea disposal by Shell, which owns the platform. Last year, Shell had abandoned plans for sinking the platform following protests and boycotts of its products across Europe over …
Electricity generated by British wind farms increased by 10 per cent last year to more than 348 gigawatt hours. The year also saw the commissioning of six new wind farms. The British Wind Energy Association said that the latest annual output of the country's 29 wind farms met the electricity …
OUT of all known sources that pose a cancer threat to humans, mobile phone is the latest. Nearly five million people in the UK could be at risk from developing cancer or asthma by using mobile phones. This has been concluded by scientists who carried out research in the US, …
AS THE earth grows warmer, the battle between insurance and energy industries is heating up. The insurance executives have teamed up with international climate change experts. Around 60 big insurance companies met recently in London to chalk out ways of improving the management of environmental risks that are costing their …
IN THE struggle for existence, the feathered creatures are losing out to the denizens 6f the deep. Every year, Scotland carries out licenced. killing of at least a thousand wild birds to save salmons. Conservationists claim that there is no scientific justification for the cull. The Scottish Office (so) is …
People with high cholesterol can reduce the risk of a first time heart attack by 31 per cent and the risk or death by 22 per cent by takIng a widely prescribed drug tailed pravastatin sodium. This was the conclusion ofa landmark study in the UK -the West of Scotland …
CANCER patients at a hospital in Edinburgh are being treated with a drug that gums up the molecular :ccelerator pedals' on the surface of tumour cells. Blocking these sites could halt the growth of tumour cells, so that they wither and die. The drug is designed to treat small-celllung cancer, …
The UK was at the receiving end when the European Court of Justice ruled recently that a ban on export of live sheep imposed by it on Spain, was unlawful. The Luxembourg court ruled that the UK agriculture ministry had been wrong to deny a licence to a sheep exporter …
ON THE heels of the mad cow disease, the British government is faced with another food safety crisis. This time the crisis centres around powdered baby milk thought to contain potentially hazardous chemicals. However, the government has insisted that there was no cause for alarm. The controversy began after a …
THIS April, the UK government has come out with a Green Paper (Transport - The Way Forward) in response to a well researched report on transport and environment, published by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCFP) in October 1995 (Eighteenth Report: Transport and the Environment). The RCEP report clearly …
• A new system of trunk road planning to avoid planning delays • New power to local authorities to manage traffic demand in their areas and reduce vehicular pollution • Promoting the use of bus • Continuing transfer of transport operations, especially the railways, into the private sector to free …
IN A bid to wade out of troubled waters, the UK is throwing a bait to its fisherfolk. If they agree to scrap vessels and stop fishing, they will pocket a sum of us $19.8 million. The move follows the recent, European Union conference on setting fishing quotas. If the …
British scientist Chris Hill discovered the world's oldest flower recently in 130-million-year-old clay rocks in the south of England. Christened Bevhalstia pebja and belonging to the Cretaceous period, this plant fossil is a 25-cm high herb and has aquatic roots. It combines a primitive fern-like anatomy and leaves with more …
A RECENT report reveals that the UK regularly exceeds its own stringent limits for particulate emissions from diesel vehicles. The report by the Quality of Urban Air Review Group - set up by the British government - has suggested additional tough measures for controlling the emissions and meeting officially recommended …
In a pioneering effort, Vortoil Separation Systems Ltd of Gloucester, UK, has developed a hydro cyclone separator to remove oil from water. The hydrocyclone separator can convert the kinetic energy contained by flowing liquids into powerful centrifugal forces. This results in the instantaneous separation of oil and water. The vortex …
WITH the fallout of the mad cow disease in Britain, attention has been drawn to its human counterpart - Crc utzfeldt- Jakob disease (CM). Reported simultaneously in 1921 by two independent scientists, Hans G Creutzfeldt and Alfons Jakob, the disease affects the brain. Normally the disease strikes those who are …
