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Volume 12, Issue 5
1 June 2017
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- Author(s): D. Ross
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0512
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Are smart meters really as smart, and as practical, as their name suggests? - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 6 –7
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0513
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News from around the world. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, page: 8 –8
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0514
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The US tech sector's efforts on workplace inclusiveness may not be working, as engineers quit over 'mistreatment' more than anything else. - Author(s): J. Loughlan
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, page: 10 –10
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0515
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Startup independents are becoming an important supplier of sustainable power in the UK, making the grid more stable and resilient at the same time. But they face barriers from the established energy giants. - Author(s): J. Leob
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, page: 11 –11
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0516
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Start-up microgeneration companies hoping to feed power into new, more flexible forms of energy grid could find their path blocked by monopolistic companies sitting astride transmission networks. - Author(s): J. Fell
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 12 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0517
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The Norwegian Coastal Administration is planning to build the world's first full-scale Shipping tunnel through the Stad Peninsula. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, page: 14 –14
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0518
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Several companies are developing small, personal aircraft, many of them able to take off and land vertically, to beat urban traffic congestion. - Author(s): C. Chambers
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, page: 15 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0519
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As flying cars finally look like they may become a reality, our market commentator wonders where the funding will come from to bankroll their development in the UK. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 16 –17
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0520
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Dubai is host to one of the most unusual restaurants in the world, Dinner in the Sky, which suspends customers 50 metres above the city's marina. Providing magnificent views while you enjoy your sky-high meal, the eatery can seat 22 diners and the chairs can rotate 360 degrees, if patrons are brave enough. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 18 –20
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0521
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Send your letters to The Editor, E&T, Michael Faraday House, Six Hills Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2AY, UK, or to [email protected]. We reserve the right to edit letters and to use submissions in any other format. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, page: 21 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0522
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Manufacturers need to address ethics as they build increasing numbers of machines designed to operate collaboratively alongside humans in the workplace. - Author(s): C. Andrews
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 22 –25
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0500
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Political parties and their supporters are using social media to try and win elections. But is this democratic and, if not, can it be stopped explains this paper. - Author(s): H. Vella
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 26 –28
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0501
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In this paper, we used the large and complex data sets that sequencing produces to achieve better patient treatment and diagnosis is problematic and demanding. So far, the healthcare sector has only scratched the surface - but this is changing thanks to the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. - Author(s): T. Fryer
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 30 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0523
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In a rusting old hangar in Kazakhstan lie the remains of the Soviet Union's Buran programme to develop a reusable shuttle. - Author(s): J. Loeb
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 32 –34
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0502
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A shortage of installers, weak mobile network signals and interoperability problems are just some of the issues plaguing efforts to get new metering technology installed in millions of UK homes in the next few years. - Author(s): C. EdwardsEdwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 36 –39
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0503
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The big problem for renewables is that they do not produce energy when the grid needs it. Big seasonal and daily fluctuations make wind and solar an erratic resource that, at times, can produce more energy than the grid can use. But if that energy can be stored, it need not go to waste. In many cases, the energy need only be cached for a few hours so that it is delivered in the evening or at night - and avoid the need to turn on gas generation at night. So the race is on to find economical energy storage technologies. Which storage technologies get picked will be influenced as much by the economics of grid operation as by their relative efficiencies and costs. Storage options include huge systems that use the landscape itself for potential energy, such as the Dinorwig pumped-hydroelectric plant in North Wales, supporting almost 10GWh of capacity to compensate for problems in the high-voltage electrical transmission network. They scale all the way down to boiler-shaped sub-10kWh batteries for the home or office. Grid-stability deals will provide incentives for commercial operators to put storage into the core transmission and distribution networks. Owners of industrial and housing estates will be able to supply peak-time electricity back to the grid or simply use the storage to avoid importing energy from the grid. The options on offer range from batteries packed into containers to technologies that support the evolution into a fully fledged hydrogen-based energy economy. - Author(s): H. Clarke
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 40 –44
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0504
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Rolling out energy technologies that will help to cool the planet requires a stable regulatory environment to attract the necessary investment. Thus positive developments was looked in carbon capture and storage (CCS) and ask if the sector will suffer from the tumultuous impacts of Brexit and Trump. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 46 –49
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0505
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It's more than a century since New York became the first battle zone in the `War of Currents' to determine how electricity is distributed. Today, from the tallest buildings on Brooklyn's west-facing Park Slope, you can look across the East River to Manhattan's Lower East Side. There you will see, just to the left of the Brooklyn Bridge and the right of Wall Street, number 257 Pearl Street. - Author(s): C. Hayes
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 50 –52
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0506
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At first sight, the LUKE arm looks much like the prosthetic arms that preceded it. But this limb, named after the `Star Wars' hero Luke Skywalker who acquires a robotic arm in 'The Empire Strikes Back', is much more responsive than its predecessors. Developed by DEKA Research and Development as part of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) Revolutionizing Prosthetics initiative, the arm is being taken to market by start-up Mobius Bionics. It uses electromyogram (EMG) electrodes to detect electrical signals created when the wearer's remaining muscles contract. The electrodes transmit the signals to a processor embedded in the prosthetic that controls its movement: opening and closing fingers or changing the grip. Sensors in the wearer's shoe can transmit commands wirelessly in response to foot movements to alter the grip. - Author(s): M. Williamson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 54 –57
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0507
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It's decades since men first walked on the Moon, but now a new space race is on the horizon. Who will be first to transport humans to Mars? By Mark Williamson. - Author(s): J. Wks
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 58 –61
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0508
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Heat, rocks, dust (lots of it), scanty maps and nowhere to refuel. Driving on Mars is the ultimate extreme challenge. By Jeremy Wilks. - Author(s): R. Northfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 62 –63
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0524
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The Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London, listed by Guinness World Records as the oldest manufacturing firm in Britain, cast its final batch of tower bells in its East London premises at the end of March, and has closed its doors. - Author(s): L. Jones
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 64 –66
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0509
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The United Nations says 1.8 billion people in the world use a source of drinking water that is faecally contaminated. Up to 2.4 billion lack access to basic sanitation (toilets and latrines). Charity WaterAid estimates that a child dies every two minutes as a result of diarrhoeal diseases caused by dirty water and poor sanitation. Engineering promises to change that with projects that range from smart pumps to devices that capture water from thin air, although effective change is likely to go beyond technological fixes. - Author(s): A. Schultz
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 68 –71
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0510
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Once in danger of being consigned as a scientific curiosity chased by tourists, aurora is attracting renewed attention as the visible interface between Earth and the magnetic world. And the latest research into this natural phenomenon is producing some surprising technology applications. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 72 –75
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0525
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One of the world's leading pioneers in nanophotonics, Dr Arseniy Kuznetsov, recipient of the IET's Harvey Engineering Research Prize, discusses his work in dielectric nanoantennas and how it can be applied in areas ranging from medical diagnosis to improving our smartphones. - Author(s): C. Andrews
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 76 –77
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0511
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Table tennis is such a fast moving sport, it's difficult to get quick readings during a game. Technology that can work out where points are won and lost to give a performance review would be very useful. - Author(s): C. Quin
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 78 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0526
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A cordless vacuum cleaner that really sucks. A smart watch, camera drone, water monitor and more that don't suck. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 80 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0527
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Apple plunders an older design for its first budget tablet.`. - Author(s): B. Betts
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 82 –83
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0528
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Modern mobiles are full of sensors, with more uses than just the obvious ones. We look at a few apps that take advantage of them. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 84 –85
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0529
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Without an understanding of relativity and its frameworks, it would be difficult to express engineering concepts. Brian Clegg's book 'The Reality Frame' explains how a scientific theory is relevant to our everyday lives. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 86 –87
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0530
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Our pick of the latest engineering-based titles to hit the bookshelves. - Author(s): J. Pollard
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, page: 88 –88
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0531
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This is the story of how Sir Christopher Cockerell invented one of the iconic forms of transport of the 20th century, only to be snubbed by bureaucrats for its absurdity. - Author(s): M. Barfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, page: 90 –90
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0532
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Check out our monthly digest of rather unreliable science and technology mini-stories. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, p. 92 –93
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0533
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The Mirror was designed with simplicity and popularity in mind. Until the mid-20th century, sailing had been an elite pastime with only the wealthy able to entertain the idea. Yet with the rise in dinghy sailing, the sport developed grass roots appeal, and by the time the newspaper [Daily Mirror] of the working class got involved in the 1960s, a new icon was added to the list of miniskirts, the Beatles and Flower Power. - Author(s): J. Maltby
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, page: 94 –94
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0534
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Jack re-evaluates the engineer's urge to upcycle - which blighted his childhood. - Author(s): D. Sandham
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, page: 95 –95
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0535
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Give your brain a workout with this month's testing puzzles. - Author(s): R. Northfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 5, page: 98 –98
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0536
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Hello! Didn't think you'd see me again, did you? Well, here I am, having a little dig at some gadgetry and tech once more. So have a gander, and if I put a smile on your face, I've done my job.
Editor's Letter
World News
News Comment: View from Washington - Employment: Unhappy the land that is in need of engineers
News Briefing - Investment: Independent providers drive renewables growth
News Briefing - Business: Established operators 'are potential obstacle to smart grids'
News Briefing: In Numbers - Stad Ship Tunnel
News Briefing - The race to develop flying cars
News Comment- Money & Markets : Enterprise - Who will finance the UK's flying car manufacturers?
The Bigger Picture - Dinner in the Sky
Opinion Feedback: Your Letters
Opinion: First Person - Automation What industry can learn from new robotic standards
Elections 2017: engineering consent [social media technology]
Can data & AI beat cancer?
PhotoEssay - Space: Buran space programme
What would it take to stop the smart-meter juggernaut?
The landscape is charging [energy storage]
Will Trump and Brexit bury carbon capture?
The big grid split [microgrids]
Think and it's done [prosthetic design and production]
Missions to Mars
Dust busters [Mars rovers]
The Gallery: Manufacturing - Bell Foundry
Four roads to fresh water [water engineering projects in the developing world]
Aurora: technology from the heavens
Interview: Dr Arseniy Kuznetsov
SportsTech. Table tennis technology
Reviews - Consumer Technology: Gadgets
The Teardown: iPad 2017 tablet computer
Software Reviews: Putting all those sensors to work
Book Interview: Making relative sense of everything
Book Reviews: A Portable Cosmos, To Be a Machine, Leading with Vision
The Eccentric Engineer - Manufacturing: Dalén's Explosive Legacy: The Nobel in your kitchen
e&tCetera . . . [mini-stories]
Classic Project: Mirror sailing dinghy
Jack's Blog [Columnist]
Thinking Cap [puzzles]
Technology - Blog: Bizarre Tech
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