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Volume 5, Issue 4
6 March 2010
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0421
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 6 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0422
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- Author(s): L. Collins
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, page: 14 –14
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0400
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Mobile networks built for voice traffic will in future carry vast amounts of data. E&T looks at the implications. The world's mobile operators have got themselves in a jam and they'll have to work like stink to get out of it. While they're doing that, it looks likely that others will make off with the lion's share of the profits that their networks are enabling. It is, to quote a phrase, a fine to-do. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, page: 15 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0423
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 16 –17
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0424
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- Author(s): M. Williamson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 18 –20
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0401
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The age of steam has long been consigned to the history books - but tell that to the city of New York. The author looks at a 21st century energy distribution network. Steam is distributed for heating, hot water and air conditioning to customers from the southern tip of Manhattan to the area bordering Central Park. - Author(s): A. Spurling
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 21 –23
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0402
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We are at the lET's Savoy Place premises, where Dr Herve This is very pleased to discover a statue of Michael Faraday outside the building. This physical chemist calls natural philosopher Faraday 'the most important physical chemist'. DrThis is on a mini-tour to promote his new book 'Science of the Oven' (reviewed in issue three of E&T). He has so far lectured at Imperial College and Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in Marylebone Lane, London. But back to scones. What DrThis means is that tradition is a fallacy; each batch of scones differs from every other. 'It is the old debate between Plato and Aristotle what is the taste of a cherry? All cherries are different, so there is no taste of the cherry.' Tradition is one of the things This is trying to update. Especially since certain things in our kitchens have been around since Medieval times. 'Down with the Middle Ages!' he said in his London University lecture. This has collected over 25,000 old French cooking customs, which he calls 'culinary precisions', and which he is testing out. It was to bring some precision to the kitchen that he and Nicolas Kurti invented 'molecular gastronomy' in 1988. Their aims were exploration, testing the status quo, introducing new tools and ingredients and spreading science through food. Out of this came 'molecular cuisine', practised by high-profile chefs worldwide, but This is keen to assert the distinction that molecular cooking is cooking and molecular gastronomy is scientific activity. 'Molecular gastronomy is not cooking for rich people,' he said in his Imperial College lecture. - Author(s): S.A. Holgate
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 24 –27
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0403
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'Tornado' has passed its first annual maintenance exams. The author looks at the revived skills and the modern techniques that have brought the UK's newest steam locomotive onto the mainline. In the first part of this special two-part feature, we look at how it took 20 years of determination to make the dream a reality. - Author(s): S.A. Holgate
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 28 –30
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0404
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In the second part of our two-part special feature, the author takes an in-depth look at the modern electronics that were called upon to bring Tornado, the world's newest steam locomotive, up to 21st century standards. The challenge was finding room for everything. Although it appears to be a large engine there's an awful lot on it and there was competition for space around the cab. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 31 –33
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0405
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Design with ready-made IP cores should be easier but life is never that simple, the author finds. In the ten years or so that it has taken for design reuse, or design with IP, to go from a niche interest to mainstream chip implementation, teams have developed an understanding of what it can do for them, and how to budget accordingly. However, there are still surprises to be negotiated, as some aspects of design reuse are counterintuitive, especially when it comes to reusing some piece of IP developed in-house in another chip. Designers found this out at the end of last years as they converged on the IP-ESC event in Grenoble, France the main conference for IP-based design in Europe. - Author(s): B. Furfie
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 34 –35
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0406
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Three years ago, netbooks exploded onto the scene revolutionising the IT sector, effectively killing Microsoft's Ultra-Mobile PC concept overnight and speeding up convergence between the technology and telecoms sectors. However, while everyone from Microsoft to Carphone Warehouse rushed to make the most of this new type of device, one company stood quietly on the sidelines: Apple. Despite having transformed from a computer manufacturer y to a mobile devices company in less than a decade, thanks largely to the ubiquitous iPod and iPhone brands, it refused to get involved with the netbook gold rush, even going as far as to describe them as 'junk'. Even at the launch of the iPad, the company's chief executive Steve Jobs attacked netbooks, describing them as nothing more than small, underpowered laptops and stating: "If there is going to be a third category of device, then it has to be better at certain tasks than a laptop or a smart phone, otherwise it has no reason for being." It is clear that Apple believes that tablets are the future. This paper discuss about the new under powered laptop, tablet computer, iPad. - Author(s): G. Richards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 36 –39
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0407
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The rollout of active magnetic bearings puts a new spin on bearing control. To many people, magnetic levitation conjures up images of trains like the Shanghai Transrapid, the world's first commercial high-speed maglev service which shuttles about 7,500 passengers a day at up to 270mph between the city centre and Pudong International Airport. - Author(s): M. Payn
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 40 –41
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0408
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Panicky back-pedalling on new safety standards caused engineers and machine builders headaches at the end of last year, and that's just the start of it, says Dr Martin Payn, Division & UK customer assurance manager of Parker SSD Drives Europe. The need to prevent dangerous failures means that any dawdling over standards uptake could have a catastrophic effect. - Author(s): R. Pool
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 42 –45
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0409
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Designed and constructed by 22 University of Kansas architecture students, electricity is provided by three 600W turbines to the rear of the building while solar PV panels are sited on the ground and roof. Solar lighting is installed, recycled building materials have been used and a geothermal heat pump heats and cools the building. Rainwater, harvested through gutters and down-spouts into a cistern, waters the outside yard through a pump system, while a white roof reflects heat. - Author(s): J.P. Conti
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 46 –47
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0410
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As far as power failures go, few can match the dubious record set by Brazil last year. On the night of 10 November, nearly 70 million people were left in the dark some of them for up to five hours in an incident that is still being investigated by national authorities. The massive blackout affected not only 18 of Brazil's 27 states, but also the entire population of Paraguay. Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's two largest urban areas, were among hundreds of cities and towns that were unexpectedly plunged into darkness. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 48 –50
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0411
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The launch next month of the UK's Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme - EES - will mark a major change in how organisations control and pay for the energy they consume, and in the extent to which they accept a responsibility for shaping their overall emissions profile. It is a legislative push that has divided industry opinion like no other regulation in recent years. The CRC EES is the UK's incoming mandatory energy saving policy, central to the plan to improve the nation's energy efficiency and reduce C02 emissions, as set out in the Climate Change Act 2008. It is designed to raise awareness in around 20,000 large public and private-sector organisations, which - according to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) - are responsible for about 10 per cent of the UK's emissions. It operates as a 'cap and trade' mechanism, providing financial incentives to reduce energy use by pricing carbon emissions derived from energy use. EES works by getting organisations to buy allowances equal to their annual emissions. IT has been framed as the prime consumer of enterprise energy; it has also distinguished itself with 'green' IT initiatives, and associated awareness campaigns. Many prominent IT heads have proved to be leaders of carbon-management programmes within their organisations and beyond. There is a financial incentive in reducing energy bills, of course; but IT departments do not always benefit directly from this, as consumption is not charged back on a per-usage basis. - Author(s): T. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 51 –53
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0412
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The author mentions that building software using a team of multiple programmers working from different time zones brings production efficiencies, but managing the source code effectively is essential. Mention source code management (SCM) to most developers, and there is the strong possibility that they will think about version control of individual source-code files. At its most basic, version control is a method of maintaining separate versions of files, rather than simply overwriting the old ones.The most up-to-date SCM systems offer developers and project managers a way of implementing an efficient and productive workflow: they go beyond simple version control they can streamline project management. - Author(s): B. Betts
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 54 –55
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0413
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Toyota's recent recall of almost half a million Prius and other hybrid cars to fix an issue with their braking system is hugely important to the motor industry. It's partly down to the sheer embarrassment to Toyota the company that pretty much invented lean manufacturing. Recent high-profile problems with Toyota and Ford cars have involved software fixes, not mechanical ones. This paper investigates if the boom in vehicle electronics mean modern mechanics need laptops as well as spanners. - Author(s): A. Harris
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 56 –59
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0414
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Located in central Germany between the urban hotspots of Frankfurt, Cologne and Diisseldorf, Ratingen is a modest town of under 100,000 inhabitants with little in the way of history, and few famous sons outside Germany, at least. Yet there will be E&T readers around the world whose mains electricity supply is dependent on Ratingen and its industrial products, as nestling in the shadows of the ISS Dome conference centre is a factory belonging to power systems manufacturer ABB. Built in the late 1990s, this modern, sprawling 76,000m2 complex houses 1,300 employees, and is one of the company's manufacturing bases for medium-voltage (40kV) products. ABB's Ratingen plant has to compete with the company's plants in low-cost countries, and Anne Harris discovers how a process overhaul and a culture of good communication may just deliver those crucial efficiencies. - Author(s): M. Williamson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 60 –63
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0415
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Some people have had satellite TV for so long that, like mobile telephony, they take it for granted. Services such as Sky and Freesat are an established part of the telecommunications landscape. It means that those outside the satellite industry the ground-huggers of terrestrial broadcasting and cable tend to overlook the role of satellites in expanding broadcasting. March 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of what began as a little-known start-up in Luxembourg dedicated to bringing multiple channels of satellite broadcast TV to homes across Europe. Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES) was established by the Luxembourg government in 1985 as Europe's first private satellite operator, setting up shop in a chateau that was formerly home to a Grand Duke. - Author(s): L. Collins
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 64 –65
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0416
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The global communications network has grown so quickly that its energy use is becoming a problem. - Author(s): G. Clapperton
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 66 –67
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0417
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Some engineering companies have unveiled weighty profits lately but not weighty enough, according to the stock market. So why exactly are those share prices tumbling? And on whose say so? Guy Clapperton explains. - Author(s): W. Altman
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 68 –69
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0418
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India knows how to embrace new technology that's why it's an emerging economic power. Will Altman bones up on the main players and what business with India will be like. - Author(s): E.-J. Gooch
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 70 –71
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0419
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Research shows that there will be a significant shortfall in graduates entering nuclear power industry by the decade 2015-25. The author discusses the biggest challenge facing the nuclear industry. Nuclear is big news. It's at the crux of energy industry strategy, with the UK government commitment to creating 100,000 jobs in the nuclear sector. Worldwide, 436 power reactors currently contribute 15 per cent of the world's energy and the pace of development is increasing. Over 40 new reactors are under construction, 106 are in planning and 266 are being proposed. This is an industry in transformation. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, page: 73 –73
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0425
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The latest IET dates for your diary. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 76 –77
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0426
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How Google took over the world, the first 'digi-novel', and our latest poetry challenge. - Author(s): D. Birkett
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, page: 78 –78
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0420
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The author weighs up the many imminent possibilities of heading out to space - or near it, anyway. - Author(s): M. Barfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, page: 79 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0427
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Mike Barfield's second instalment of engineering news, views and pictures from the edge of feasibility. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 80 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0428
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Here's the first of our regular round-up of the latest software releases. For our inaugural outing we review Microsoft Office 2010 and the mobile apps that everyone should know about. - Author(s): V. Vitaliev
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 4, page: 82 –82
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0429
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Vitali Vitaliev on Twitter, literature, and a new competition for E&T readers.
Editorial: City living
News
Analysis: Operations caught out by data boom
News in brief
Letters to the Editor
Steam streets
How to construct a meal
All aboard Tornado
From fat controller to microcontroller
Make less work for yourself [electronics reuse]
Is the iPad a game changer? [Tablet computer from Apple]
Magnetism on a roll [control bearings]
A mess of standards [control safety]
Urban eco-warriors [power sustainable cities]
The day the samba stopped [power blackouts]
Whose CO2 is it anyway?
Protecting the process [source code management]
Recall and reboot
How to survive with high costs
Baby steps to a big footprint
Greening the global network
Fair share prices?
Economy of the living dead
Where are the nuclear engineers? [management skills]
Events
Book reviews
The global engineer
E&Tcetera
Software
After all: Classics of twitterature
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