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, …
Celltech, the UK-based biotech firm, has tested a new drug against rheumatoid arthritis. Thegeneti- cally engineered drugCDP 571, is based on a synthetic antibody. The antibody blocks the action of the protein that attacks the joints of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers ( The Eastern Phannacist, Vo138, No 453). When tried on …
The Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) has launched a ca paign in Durham, UK, against t1h Durham county council's plans t develop a number of the city's greel areas to attract new business an industry. The would-be clevelopel claim they have included a green be in their …
NEW measures resisting women from selling human ova has been urged by the architect of Britain's human fertility, Baroness Warnock. Revelations about agencies paying upto us $1,500 for a single batch necessitated a legislation to put an end to this inhuman trade. The administrative body responsible for licensing and regulating …
MERCURY thermometers will become a thing of the past in hospitals within the next few years if trends favouring alternative devices continue. National Health Services (NHS) Supplies, the special health authority in the UK which provides goods and services for the NHS, says, the number of mercury thermometers which were …
Scientists at Cambridge Universil UK, have announced prc _ developing "single electron logict to herald in chips with data-processing capacity of 1,000 PCs. The principle behind this logicl that small and precise numbers electrons can be controllt form numerous information pri cessing functions. It builds on wo on "single electron …
THE sun no longer shines on the fast-food industry these days. Kentucky Fried Chicken's maiden venture in India landed the us fast-food giant in a soup, with allegations of carcinogenic chicken being on its menu. And in the UK, McDonald's Corporation seems to have bitten off more than it can …
SCIENTISTS from Britain and six other countries have 4 together in unprecedented venture to um the mysteries a world's past dim They will sail os world's largest and most techmi cally advanced scientific drill Ship Joides Resolution - to the Arctic and drill deep into the ocean kX carry out …
Beauty conscious people now need not lose sleep over scars. Wounds from injury or an operation. more often than not leave behind ugly reminders in the form of scars. Now, A stitch in time researcher Mark Ferguson at the University of Manchester UK, offers hope in the form of a …
IMAGINE a vast expanse of agricultural field interspersed with luminous patches. In the not too distant future, this vision will no longer be left to the imagination, but could become a reality. Scientists at UK's Oxford University and the University of Wales have succeeded in developing a unique early warning …
Centrifugal oil cleaners, develOP4 by Britain's Glacier Filter Prodaft company, would soon oust tzvd9W tional paper oil filters in cam HE% production vehicles introduction them from next year. These cleaners, offering M"4 component wear, have been successfully only in marine truck diesel engines for over years. There can be cost-e …
Take heart .. says Imutran, a Chambridge-based British biotechoology firm to ailing heart patients. It is preparing to present them with a brand new set of is organ that will be carved out i special breed of transgenic p dleveloped specifically for pairpose. The pigs are unique ammir their organs …
TRYING to forge a strong link between the researchers and the industrialists has proved to be a thankless job for the British government. The office of science and technology is about to come up with a report on a unique scheme called Realising Our Potential Awards (ROPA). Introduced in the …
COMPUTERESE IN CHINESE: When in China, turn Chinese. The US- based Microsoft Corp seems to have no qualms about following this strategy. It has just set Chineselanguage standards for its much- vaunted operatint system Windows 95 being sold in Beijing. Microsoft has signed a pact with two units of China's …
Named Baby Dopplex 3000 (or A Parturn Fetal Monitor), a hi-a foetal monitor has been devel" by UWs HNE Dignostics compa The monitor uses the advam Doppler technology, where c6q in sound pitch are used to moni the foetal development, (Specirs No 247, july-August 1995). The equipment is a safe …
TO COMBAT noise pollution, United Kingdom's (UK) Building Research Establishment (BRE) recently undertook some innovative research aimed at providing noise-insulated dwellings to people. The project includes persuading architects to design houses with considerable insulation against cacophony and finding out construction material that keeps out the maddening noise (Spectrum, No 246). …
An electricity generating wind turbine system for installation on roofs of urban homes has been designed by UK energy consultant Derek Taylor (Wind Power Monthly, Vol 11, No 7). Developed by Taylor's company Altechnica, this roof wind energy system is like a roof venting system in appearance and takes advantage …
UK-based Chloride Industrial Batteries Ltd has manufactured a new high reliability battery for military applications. Named Armasafe, the battery uses latest recombination technology that providei increased power capacity in the same volume coupled with low maintenance and negligible gassing (Battery Newsletter, Vol 4, No 2). Suitabli! for the harsh environment …
EXACTLY 16 months after the UK government stopped aiding research into wave power on the grounds that it had no commercial future, the world's first wave-powered electricity generator has been launched off the shore of Scotland. Promising mass production of power at a wondrously cheap rate, the new electricity generator …
A study conducted by a UK research group revealed that among women dying due to tobacco intake the world over, Scottish women figure on the top of the list. This is 2/3rds more than in the UK. Incidentally, smoking is one of the main causes of premature deaths in both …
Researchers at the British Eagle Cycles in south Wales, UK, have developed a super bike - a racing cycle with a one-piece carbon-fibre frame and superb aerodynamics, which makes it lighter and quicker than traditional steel frame bikes. Named Lotus Bike - after a British sports car manufacturer who helped …
