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Volume 4, Issue 20
21 November 2009
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, page: 2 –2
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2018
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 3 –12
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2019
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- Author(s): M. Williamson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, page: 13 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2000
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E&T reports from the CEAS 2009 European Air and Space Conference in Manchester, organised by the Council of European Aerospace Societies. Developments in micro-miniaturisation, packaging and power subsystems have allowed engineers to reduce the size and mass of satellites capable of accomplishing missions formerly reserved for much larger spacecraft. One example is the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC), whose baseline satellites produce images of similar resolution to those of the Landsats of the 1980s (around 30m), but weigh less than 100kg rather than the 2,000kg of the Landsats. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 14 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2020
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Views from the E&T inbox. - Author(s): T. Jackson and N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, page: 16 –16
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2021
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- Author(s): M. Harris
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 18 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2001
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This paper investigates the shift to energy saving lightning will save vast amount of electricity. Incandescent bulbs proving more difficult for replacement and more controversial than anyone light sources. - Author(s): L. Murray
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 22 –24
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2002
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The mirrors in the bathroom display your blood pressure, temperature and weight from sensors in your toothbrush and in the floor. The smart mirror will also remind you when to take medication and will display today's weather. Touch screens are ubiquitous: from a very clever smart board on the kitchen wall to a discrete 2,000-LED display embedded into the kitchen worktop that controls the environment. One notable absence is that of robots of any kind, but perhaps that is by design. The living tomorrow (LT) complex in Brussels is a highly interconnected 'brave new world' where smart phones, mirrors, carpets, multimedia systems, lighting and heating, banking, and bill-paying systems all communicate with each other wirelessly and seamlessly. - Author(s): L. Collins
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 25 –27
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2003
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Once the dust settles on next month's Copenhagen climate change summit, attention will turn to how new targets are going to be met. We asked E&Ts editors to review some of the technologies that could provide the world's governments with an early Christmas present. How can the communications industry help tackle global warming? The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is currently lobbying hard to have the role of information and communications technology as a tool for reducing climate change recognised at the upcoming Copenhagen meeting. Rural electrification in the developing world could bring big benefits to both people and the planet but not if it depends on expensive diesel generators to replace the power grids that the developed world takes for granted. That's why its proponents are increasingly looking to photovoltaic (PV) panels to do the job. - Author(s): L. Douglas
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 28 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2004
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The Aquatics Centre is going to be the jewel of the Olympic Park, 'The Gateway to the Games'. In this paper, the author describes the engineering behind the Aquatic Centre specifically its wave-shaped roof, temporary stands, and the pool. - Author(s): K. Sangani
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 30 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2005
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While the rest of the world's consumer tech industry flounders because of the downturn, Korea's is flourishing. And since the establishment of the Republic of Korea in the south, the country's industrial achievement has been spectacular particularly in the area of consumer electronics and its large consumer electronics companies such as LG and Samsung appear to be successfully challenging the dominance of Japanese companies like Sony and Panasonic. - Author(s): S. Munk
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 32 –33
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2022
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Cut the wires, get tough and act like Cool Hand Luke. The author finds out whether the latest technology is just hot air. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 34 –35
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2006
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Chips could play a major role in cutting carbon emissions but simply making them incurs a big burden.Despite regular improvements, energy consumption is likely to remain high in silicon production - the biggest changes in lifecycle cost come from extending the lifetime of electronic systems and, longer term, by shifting lower-performance components to alternative technologies. For example, one of the benefits of polymer semiconductors lies in the much lower temperatures needed for manufacture. A move to self-assembly techniques may also yield benefits. But, in the meantime, if you want to lower carbon dioxide emissions, it's worth hanging on to that digital TV or PC a little while longer. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 36 –39
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2007
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The electronics industry has been obsessed with driving down power consumption for more than a decade, not so much from a green perspective but to stop laptops and phones going flat at critical moments. Semiconductor design is fundamental to extending the battery life of the portable devices on which so many people depend, particularly since improvements in battery capacity are so slow to emerge. - Author(s): G. Richards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 40 –42
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2008
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A bellwether of this decline particularly in the UK has been the take-up of robotics and automation. At the time of writing the UK economy is still technically in a recession, so it's to be expected that manufacturing will have reined in investment, but figures show that for some years UK industry has doggedly refused to embrace the technology to anything like the extent as its European rivals. - Author(s): M. Langdon
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 44 –47
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2009
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Automating the surveying process offers the opportunity to see a mine in a whole new light. This article introduces a laser scanner with a robotic vehicle for scanning mines. The robot is a combination of laser scanning instrumentation with wireless communications and robotic technology in the form of a remote surveying vehicle (RSV), to make data capture much faster and improve the range and coverage of measurements, as well as safeguarding the survey personnel. This technology has several advantages for mine surveying, such as higher precision, easy access to hazardous areas, self-levelling ability, etc. - Author(s): M. Venables
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 48 –50
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2010
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The paper reports on Solar Power International conference in Los Angeles, California, USA. The conference is meant to strengthen the belief that the time is perfect for the solar power to grow. It also discusses the position of the US government in the development of solar energy industries. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, page: 51 –51
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2023
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The latest in our series of reports from the emerging countries that will be vital to achieving an agreement at the climate change conference in Copenhagen. India is tackling climate change with the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). The stated objective of this policy is to establish an effective, cooperative and equitable global approach based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and relative capabilities; to identify measures that promote development objectives while yielding co-benefits for climate change. The plan was developed by a special council appointed by the Prime Minister in 2007. The Council includes ministers, government officials, scientists, civil society and business, but has met infrequently. As of 2009, strategies to advance the eight missions identified in the plan are being developed by ministries, agencies and consultants. The need for further stakeholder engagement has been recognised. Many programmes in the NAPCC have been underway for some time, but it is not always clear how the plan will build or expand on these existing programmes. The council are also proposing to revisit many difficult or stalled policy and regulatory reform processes. However, proposed programmes to significantly expand solar power are new; energy efficiency mission implementation involves significant new programmes. - Author(s): T. James
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 52 –53
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2011
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This paper discusses the reduction of global emission by designing sustainable buildings. It also presents options in building heating system in the form of heat networks. Through the use of this heat networks, it is possible to deliver low and zero carbon heat to towns and cities. - Author(s): K. Allan
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 54 –57
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2024
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Global law firm Simmons & Simmons has successfully deployed a worldwide upgrade of its IT infrastructure helmed by IT director Abby Ewen and her team. - Author(s): T. Eddolls
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 58 –59
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2012
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Virtualisation? Scalability? Thin clients? Secure data? Middle-aged mainframes have been doing it since the 1960s, explains Trevor Eddolls and they're still swinging. - Author(s): N. Fox
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 60 –62
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2013
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More than a century after their discovery, new uses are still being found for X-rays. This paper presents one of the latest sectors to adopt X-ray technology, the industrial sector. - Author(s): A. Harris
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 63 –65
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2014
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The market for wind energy is booming, but while that increased production may seem a boon for wind turbine manufacturers, it comes at a cost. With competition mounting, turbine manufacturers are striving to increase productivity and quality while driving down costs. - Author(s): L. Collins
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 66 –68
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2015
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If you want to get all hairshirted about it, the green mantra of 'reduce, reuse, repurpose, recycle' doesn't leave much slack for buying things because you want them, because they are fashionable, or because you would feel left behind without them. But the mobile phone industry is based on getting new customers and keeping existing ones by creating new handsets that enable new services. - Author(s): C. Evans-Pughe
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 69 –71
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2016
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When the Minnesota Bridge over the Mississippi river collapsed during an evening rush hour in August 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145, the parlous state of America's civil infrastructure became headline news. Far from this being a rare event, apparently more than 130 American bridges collapsed between 1989 and 2000: that's about one a month. Europe's bridges seem more robust than those of the US, thanks to a more rigorous approach to inspection. Nevertheless, in August 2009 commuters using the BelfastDublin rail line had a lucky escape when part of a viaduct fell into the sea just after a train carrying 50 passengers had crossed it. Thankfully the train driver spotted subsidence and raised the alarm to halt any other trains on the line. Such catastrophic failures are boosting interest in embedding permanent sensors and communications links into all kinds of infrastructure to monitor it for structural deterioration. While safety is the main incentive, there is growing interest in how these techniques could extend the life of structures on the basis that the 'greenest' infrastructure is likely to be the infrastructure you repair rather than replace. - Author(s): A. Harris
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 72 –76
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2017
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When the world's leaders meet in Copenhagen to trash out the replacement for the Kyoto protocol in December, they'll be plotting our road to a sustainable planet. But as the author reports just weeks ahead of the crucial meeting, the outcome is still in the balance. - Author(s): J. Pollard
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, page: 79 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2025
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The author recounts the spring story behind a very Christmassy piece of engineering. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 84 –85
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2026
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Our roundup of the latest technology books. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, p. 86 –87
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2027
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Inventors Mark Sheahan and Patrick Andrews bandy ideas about the latest thing to tickle their fancy - DIYing. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 4, Issue 20, page: 88 –88
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2009.2028
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It's time for Jack to fill in the forms for University. Is he cut out for an economics degree, or will he follow his parents into engineering?
Editorial
News
Analysis: Plug-and-play satellites
Letters to the Editor
If you ask me
Let there be light [incandescent lamp]
Tomorrow's world [smart home]
Six ways to save the planet
Olympics watch: the Aquatics Centre
Manufactured and designed in Korea
Gadgets
Saints or sinners? [semiconductor manufacture]
Until the pips squeak
Hi, robot
Underground vision [automated surveying robotics]
Empire of the sun
India focus
Built to be green
My way: Interview with Abby Ewen
Life begins at 45 [mainframe software]
Going undercover
Working with wind
Less is more
Bridge of sighs
Hopes for Copenhagen?
The eccentric engineer
Book reviews
Inventor's inbox: Helping kludgers
Jack's blog
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