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Volume 5, Issue 12
7 August 2010
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1219
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 5 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1220
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 16 –17
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1221
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The latest selection from the E&T inbox. - Author(s): K. Dawson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 18 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1200
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In Europe driving is very difficult. It is required to think and then drive. There is nothing eco-friendly about electrical vehicles unless the power they consume is produced sustainably. In this article the trip of author to western Europe is described. The purpose of this trip was to make a series of radio documentaries for BBC Radio 4, called 'Electric Ride'. - Author(s): T. Krantz
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 22 –25
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1201
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IT was literally the end of the road the little Austrian village of Gussing, population 4,000, situated up against the rusted barbed wire separating Hungary from Austria the 'Iron Curtain'. In 1988, Gussing was one of the most economically depressed regions of Austria, with no through-transportation and no job base. As much as 70 per cent of its workforce had to commute out of the area to find jobs. Young people were emigrating to the metropolitan centres of Vienna or Graz. Economically, the community was almost entirely dependent upon imported energy for transportation, heating, and electrical needs, while local forest resources, comprising 45 per cent of the region, went largely unused. Today, just 20 years later, Gussing stands as a model of energy self-sufficiency for Austria, Europe and the world. This is the story of that remarkable transformation. A rags-torelative riches tale of adaptation and evolution overcoming economic hardships to the benefit of the little town of Gussing and its surrounding communities, bringing jobs and new prosperity a true Cinderella tale of great importance for the modern world as we contemplate civilisation after the age of oil and fossil fuels. Gussing produces more energy than the town consumes. It has gone from completely energy-dependent to an independent power producer in just ten years. - Author(s): L. Douglas
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 26 –27
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1202
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SOME 6,000 officials will be required to adjudicate around 15,000 athletes in all events at the 2012 Olympic Games. But the largest single group at the London Olympiad will be the 20,000 broadcasters, journalists and photographers of the world's media. Without them, the readers, listeners and viewers will not share the elation of the victor, or marvel at the arc of the jumper or hear the grunts of the hammer thrower. Their importance is recognised by Lord Coe, chairman of the London 2012 Organising Committee: "Whilst the focus of the world will be on the sporting venues in 2012, the International Broadcast Centre will be a vital, yet mostly unseen part of the Games-time operations, pumping out hundreds of thousands of hours of the sporting action around the world." Accordingly, a whole section in the north west part of the Olympic Park has been devoted to the members of the media. They have their own street there, too, to cater for all their needs. Fittingly, to match their importance, they have the biggest buildings. - Author(s): J. Wilson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 28 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1203
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Artist Anish Kapoor and engineer Cecil Balmond recently unveiled Temenos, the first Teesside Giant artwork. E&T boarded a helicopter for a closer look from above. As we pull in to the car park of Middlesbrough FC's Riverside Stadium, the E&T cameraman and I are greeted by an unprepossessing vista of abandoned industrial buildings to our left and the rusting hulk of a freight tanker to our right, with the choppy waters of the River Tees all around and a leaden, malevolent sky. In all, this seems like an especially incongruous setting for a monumental modern art sculpture, an imposing work of public art by an internationally acclaimed artist and the first of a proposed series of five such installations known as the Tees Valley Giants. Yet, turning 180 degrees away from the football ground, there it is: Temenos. At 110m long, 50m high and succinctly described by its creator sculptor Anish Kapoor, working in close partnership with engineer and structural designer Cecil Balmond as 'two rings and a pole', Temenos is impressive. Even with that container ship for a near neighbour and the city's famous Transporter Bridge as a backdrop, Temenos's ethereal steel rings and cable construction hang suspended above the ground with an aura of stark simplicity, tempered by the shape and form shifting according to one's angle. - Author(s): C. Evans-Pughe
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 30 –33
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1204
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The fourth basic element in electronics, the memristor promises a lot. But is it living up to expectations? Memristors represent a new class of nanoscale passive device characterised by a resistance that depends on factors such as the magnitude and polarity of the voltage applied or, in the case of spintronics, the degree of magnetisation. Turn off the voltage or the magnetising source and the memristor remembers its most recent resistance without any source of power until you turn it on again. Some research devices have held their values for at least three years. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 34 –35
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1205
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This paper discusses about the three-axis gyroscope, how the gyro and accelerometer combination could be used to navigate through the streets and make it possible to pinpoint a user's location inside buildings such as shops and museum. - Author(s): P. Newman
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 36 –39
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1206
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The sinking of the Deepwater Horizon is a disaster for the personnel who were killed, for the environment, and for deep-water drilling. However, an array of underwater vehicle technology has benefited. The subsea activities being undertaken in response to the tragic incidents aboard the Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible mobile drilling unit (MODU) have been performed by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). ROVs are underwater robots powered and controlled from a surface vessel or platform via an umbilical. The ROVs used are equipped with dual manipulators and are of a grouping known as 'work-class' (WROV) as they perform the work that would have historically been undertaken by divers in shallow waters. - Author(s): M. Williamson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 40 –43
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1207
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The concept of beaming power to Earth from orbiting satellites dates back to the 1960s. In 1968, aerospace engineer Peter Glaser proposed collecting power from a 'mile-wide' solar array in geostationary orbit and beaming it down to Earth using microwaves. Space technology was now sufficiently mature to build a satellite capable of delivering 10-20kW of usable power within a five-year timeframe. - Author(s): R. Pool
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 44 –45
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1208
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Professor Nick Jennings and his team are interested in optimising energy use within the local neighbourhood of the future. Here, some homes may have local generation, be it a photovoltaic panel or wind turbine, as well as a micro-storage device such as a redox flow battery or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Within such an environment, home-management agents twinned with sensors would interact with those of neighbouring homes to not only manage energy in-house but also trade locally-produced electricity on the neighbourhood energy market. "If you can trade electricity with your neighbour then it is more efficient for everyone as transmission losses are reduced,"explains Jennings. "In various Scandinavian countries right now they have neighbourhood storage models in which a number of people in the street or a small town get together and they all benefit. I think we will be seeing more of this 'localism' on a small scale, which we tend not to see very much at the moment". - Author(s): J. Hayes
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 46 –48
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1209
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If you are not directly involved with running IT systems, or setting their strategy, you may be a bit hazy about Cloud Computing "Is it something to do with meteorological monitoring?", a delegate at the recent Internet World exhibition was heard to ask. Even more computer-savvy colleagues may wonder why the ιC word lards so many media headlines and conference agendas, while seasoned computer engineers continue to protest, "Cloud Computing is not a standardised technology, it is a marketing buzzword, and as such does not exist in my book". - Author(s): M. Knights
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 49 –52
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1210
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Electronically stored information (to give it its Federal Rules name) and computer systems shape so much of our lives and our work that IT pervades almost everything we do at a basic level. Economies rely on it; lives rely on it. These realities have come to the attention of politicians and regulators. When all the legislation pertaining to IT is lumped together, it puts a lot of pressure on the enterprise IT functions. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to declare that IT operations are now the single most-regulated part of any organisation which is ironical considering that IT professionals are not necessarily required to be licenced or certified in order to practice. - Author(s): P. Hunter
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, page: 53 –53
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1211
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Can IBM win-over cautious customers with the high-end zEnterprise platform that's been designed to better bond with virtualised PC servers? - Author(s): B. Betts
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 54 –55
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1212
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Electric mobility is winning fans in major conurbation around the world and should begin to take off within the next five years or so. However, the mass adoption of vehicles powered purely by batteries outside those key markets could be at least 10 years away if indeed it ever happens. - Author(s): P. Ball
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 56 –59
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1213
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Environmentally-driven activity and greater resource efficiency is good business, as far as manufacturers are concerned. That's because the pressure on manufacturers to improve their processes and technologies is no longer merely a matter of economics and costs now it comes from environmental legislation and the expectations of society, too. Sustainable manufacture is based on the principle of meeting the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 60 –63
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1214
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The US Economic stimulus bill set aside $7.2bn to spend on the delivery of broadband connectivity to rural and other 'unserved and under-served' locations. As the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) became law in February 2009, there was talk of a two-fold benefit from its communications provisions. Equipment suppliers, network operators and construction companies would receive the short-term Keynesian boost. Then, once fibre was in the ground and 3G/4G basestations transmitting, the money would help bridge the digital divide between the cities and the prairies, fostering longer-term economic growth in some of the country's more deprived regions. - Author(s): P. Neroth
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 64 –65
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1215
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The financial crisis is changing Europe's communications landscape. European regulators are trying to make it easier for communications companies to access each other's fibre-optic networks in a bid to boost broadband access. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 66 –69
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1216
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Long-term, Bosch, UK, is focusing its efforts on the environment - an effort that is likely to lead to expansion at the company's plant in Worcester, which specialises in gas heating. Bosch in the UK sees domestic renewable energy production as a potential growth driver. Similarly, in automotive, Bosch's major push is into engines that produce less carbon dioxide than traditional designs. A group of engineers from Bosch is working out the most efficient combination of engines to create a hybrid car. Bosch focuses on leadership skills. This is a programme that involved 'learning by doing'. Bosch prefers a participative style of leadership. - Author(s): W. Altman
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 70 –71
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1217
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The industrial revolution created its own new type of organisation bureaucracy. Now we have the information revolution. Is this leading to another sort of organisation? Are we moving from 'command and control' to collaboration? There are other ideas being tried, but most of them revert back to their old form within a few years. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, page: 73 –73
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1222
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Dates for your diary. - Author(s): N. Spurrier
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 74 –75
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1218
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Archaeologist Dr Bill Bevan set out survey on Burbage Moor in Derbyshire in 2005, he found more than just the signs of ancient settlement he was expecting. There was also evidence of more recent human activity the remains of what turned out to be one of the decoys set up by the British government during the Second World War in an attempt to divert German bombers away from nearby Sheffield. Apart from disturbance of the land and sunken control rooms, little remained of these decoys and most had been entirely forgotten. Decoys had first been used during the First World War on the Western Front by the Royal Flying Corps, who constructed fake airfields consisting of tents, huts and a few unserviceable aircraft, 3km from real airfields and in the likely line of flight of bombers. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 76 –77
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1223
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US communications, the Facebook phenomenon, and our latest poetry challenge. - Author(s): K. Sangani
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, p. 78 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1224
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Checkout videos from your PC with greater ease with Boxee and keep passwords securely on the move with this rundown of password apps for mobile devices. - Author(s): D. Birkett
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, page: 80 –80
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1225
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Why does the travel industry use techno-speak to describe processes that aren't either technological or scientific? - Author(s): M. Barfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, page: 81 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1226
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Mike Barfield's regular menu of engineering mini-stories and minidrawings. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 12, page: 82 –82
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.1227
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Will Jack bite the recession bullet and take a menial job in his Dad's engineering firm?
Editorial: Grand designs
News
Letters to the Editor
Think and ride
Gussing's quiet revolution
Olympics watch [olympics media complex]
Giant steps
The device with brains [memristors]
Pile 'em high [electronics MEMS]
Beneath the horizon
May the power be with you [solar power]
Home help
Cloud's caveats
IT shoulders new laws load
Analysis: Hybrid mainframe built to quash skills qualms
Unplugging the auto [e-vehicles]
Industrial ecosystems
Broadbound by bureaucracy [US Economic stimulus bill for broadband connectivity]
Opening for business [fibre optics network]
Time to lead by example [reindustrialisation through green technologies]
Looking for leadership
Events
Fighting fire with fakes
Book reviews
Software
The global engineer
E&Tcetera
Jack's blog
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