Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Vast farms of solar panels in the Sahara desert could provide clean electricity for the whole of Europe, according to EU scientists working on a plan to pool the region's renewable energy
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
DANBURY, Conn., July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Solomon Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SOLM), announced today that its Power Electronics division has been awarded a production contract to supply multiple high voltage power drive systems for laser cutting applications. The contract, valued in excess of $1.1 million, comprises fifty systems incorporating the Cobalt 15 product technology. ...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
This video provides the locations of the various payload items that will be carried within Endeavour's cargo bay during STS-100 including the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, the Spacelab Pallet with the Space Station Remote Manipulator System, the Direct Current Switching Unit (Critical Spare) and the IMAX.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
This video provides animations of the Direct Current Switching Unit (Critical Spare) in the cargo bay of Space Shuttle Endeavour during STS-100.
Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. plans to build its first commercial-scale thermochemical plant for converting municipal solid waste (MSW) to ethanol at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in Storey County, Nevada. The project is expected to cost approximately $120 million and is set...
Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
German architect Wolf Hilbertz plans to use the process of electrodeposition to build a self-assembling city from the sea called Autopia Ampere. Autopia Ampere will begin as a series of wire-mesh armatures anchored atop a sea mountain. Once in place, they will be connected to a supply of low-voltage direct current produced by solar panels. Over [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Abbey is launching a new issue of its Instant Access Saver account, paying 6.3pc on a minimum investment of £1,000.
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Fifteen minutes is the expected reduction in travel time from Churchgate to Virar once the track conversion work is completed within the next two years.
Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Energy From Waste An emerging Washington state company InEnTec LLC (Integrated Environmental Technologies) has made some innovative plans for confronting the foulest problems from our industrialized world. Not only is the method environmentally responsible, but it unearths a potential energy source from waste products while reducing expensive liabilities. Hazardous, medical, radioactive, and even common...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
The central transmission utility, Power Grid Corporation of India has sought the power ministry's approval for its participation in the proposed joint venture for Indo-Nepal transmission link.
Stephen Newton's diary of sorts... (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
A fictionalised account of the last days of Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current and early wireless technology obsessive, The Invention of Everything Else will have an immediate appeal to anyone with an interest in popular science. But it is much than that. Tesla was a true eccentric which, when combined with his east European origins [...]
The engineer (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
National Grid and RTE are to invest €70m into upgrading the electric interconnector which links the two countries.
http://ectweb.blogspot.com (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) could improve memory in participants asked to learn and then recall a list of 12 words. The effect was significant in the early learning stages: in the first few trials, in which participants were given the same list over and over again, people in the treatment group could remember more words. But the learning curve for those working without the device...
CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Researchers at the National Institute for Neurological Disorders in Bethesda, MD are studying the effects of a charging the brain using a 9V battery to improve learning. The MIT Technology Review reports that previous research has found that a steady electrical current can improve motor function, verbal fluency and even language learning. In Bethesda, neuroscientist [...]
