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Volume 6, Issue 12
December 2011
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- Author(s): D. Ross
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1223
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This month we discover how our festive refuse, from ribbon and crackers to turkey and batteries, is renewed, recycled and reused. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 6 –7
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1224
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The latest engineering stories from around the world. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, page: 8 –8
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1225
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, page: 10 –10
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1226
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Drilling for shale gas could cut energy prices and lessen reliance on imports, say its backers, but critics warn that the process can trigger earth tremors and pollute water supplies. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 12 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1227
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, page: 14 –14
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1228
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The loss of 17,000 jobs at Nokia Siemens Networks and $400m worth of growth in mobile applications dominate the figures this month. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, page: 15 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1229
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- Author(s): S. Davies
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, page: 16 –16
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1230
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Siemens turns to emerging markets to offset slow growth elsewhere. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 17 –19
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1231
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- Author(s): M. Venables
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 20 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1200
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When the great and the good of offshore wind energy congregated in Amsterdam in November for the EWEA Offshore 2011 conference it was hard not to ride the wave of optimism sweeping through the assembled throng. Yet despite the positive messages emanating from the industry's proponents, it is clear that there are some significant hurdles to overcome before the technology's true potential can be realised. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 22 –23
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1232
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Pick of the E&T inbox. - Author(s): T. Lanning
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, page: 24 –24
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1201
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A new approach to apprenticeships is required in a world where almost half of places go to over-25s, says Tess Lanning. - Author(s): J. Buchanan-Dunlop and G. Mitchell
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 26 –27
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1202
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This issue we discuss whether or not the broadcast media offers sufficient programming time to the technology involved 'behind the scenes'. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 28 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1233
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Vienna's Spittelau Incinerator. - Author(s): M. Harris
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 30 –33
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1203
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Every year, the British public celebrates Jesus's birthday by cutting down eight million trees, wrapping enough presents to smother Guernsey, binning billions of greetings cards, and then throwing away £lbn worth of food. With a bit of thought these waste can be managed, sort clean, extrude and process our way to a greener future.The EU Batteries Directive has set recycling targets of 25 per cent of all batteries by next year, rising to 45 per cent in 2016. Britain has made more progress when it comes to recycling high-tech gifts. The recycling of unwanted gizmos, also known as WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment), is now well established. WEEE is now the fastest growing waste stream in the developed world, expanding at three times the rate of other rubbish. - Author(s): T. James
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 34 –37
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1204
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From its nadir ten years ago, when it only recycled 11.2 per cent of its waste, the UK's situation has gradually improved, driven by greater environmental awareness and ever tightening regulations to this year's zenith when 41.2 per cent of household waste was recycled. Recycling is not a new development, in fact many would argue that it is returning to mankind's early days when everything was repaired or reused. It was because the greater affluence of the previous century, driven by the consumer and marketing revolution that has turned the global market into a disposable society, that waste has increased. - Author(s): R. Pool
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 38 –41
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1205
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According to WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme), the food and drink wasted in the UK increases by a massive 80 per cent over the Christmas period, with a staggering 230,000t of food binned during the festive season. The not-for-profit, government-funded group estimates that this may be worth £275m. Fareshare prides itself as a food supply organisation for the needy that is at the centre of two urgent issues; food poverty and food waste. Operating since 2004, the UK-based charity redistributes surplus food from supermarkets and food manufacturers, such as Sainsburys, Nestle and Sodexo, to community organisations including night shelters and women's refuges. - Author(s): S. Davies
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 42 –45
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1206
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There can be no greater shrine to human waste than landfill sites. The UK buries more than 18.8 million tonnes of household waste every year two million tonnes more than any other EU country only Greece, Spain and Ireland top it on a per capita basis. Although the UK has reduced the amount of waste that is sent to landfill sites now 43.4 per cent from 79 per cent ten years ago it still consigns 57 millions of tonnes of rubbish for burial each year this comprises household waste along with that from industry and construction. - Author(s): L. Douglas
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 46 –47
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1207
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The Olympic Park project in London, UK, is a four-phase challenge. First, the 2.5sq km site had to be cleared and cleaned, and waste water and sewage facilities have to be installed, before a whole other sequence of challenges will arise. Throughout the 77 days of the Games, 17,000 athletes, 20,000 journalists and up to 800,000 spectators and visitors will pack into the Park. After this, it subsides into legacy mode the Plan, the Clearance, the Realisation and the Deconstruction. The ambitious mission statement of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) was "to deliver zero-waste Games". It aimed to design-out waste and listed a waste hierarchy of reduction, reuse and recycling, with landfill as a last resort. - Author(s): M. Courtney
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 48 –52
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1208
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In our 'Cover Your Ass culture we are storing more unwanted computer files than ever, and it's costing a bundle - so what can be done to convince us to make less data and delete more of the stuff? - Author(s): K. Sangani
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 53 –55
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1209
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Batteries contain hazardous waste substances such as mercury, lead and cadmium. If they are disposed in a landfill site, they could leak into the surrounding environment. The EU Landfill Directive placed a ban on the disposal of such hazardous waste in landfill sites. Hazardous waste such as batteries is not allowed to be mixed up with other waste streams. It must be separated, stored safely and collected for treatment before being disposed. Strict statutory targets for the recycling of batteries will be introduced and all EU states will have to recycle 25 per cent of batteries. - Author(s): D. Lenton
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 56 –57
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1210
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As consumption of electronic items increases, e-waste is becoming a real issue across the world. so what is being done to recycle and reuse discarded computers and other accessories? - Author(s): F. James
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 58 –61
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1211
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Faraday was a man of contradictions. He was a pillar of the establishment while belonging to a literalist Christian sect the Sandemanians founded in direct opposition to the state church. His work on electro-magnetic field theory contributed to the greatest change in our conception of the structure of reality since Newton. And yet the inventor of the electric motor, transformer and generator did not believe in atoms but thought the properties of chemical molecules were a result of combinations of force lines meeting at a point. - Author(s): D. Birkett
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 62 –65
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1212
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The arrival of new technologies in the theatre has transformed the relationship between the audience and the performance. The show is also streamed to a third audience the online community inviting people to communicate via Twitter. These technologies aren't only making audiences into members of the cast; they are also becoming integral to the plot. But theatre reflects the world we live in. Technology is now embedded in that world. - Author(s): V. Vitaliev
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 66 –67
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1213
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Marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the world's most notorious totalitarian state, Vitali Vitaliev considers some of the former USSR's less sinister technological creations. - Author(s): C. Evans-Pugh ; A. Bodhani ; J. Hayes
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 68 –70
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1214
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Researchers are taking inspiration from the workings of human organism when it comes to developing next-generation switches, sensors and chipsets. Researchers have the idea to create tiny computers from networks of nucleic acid molecules such as DNA and RNA, using high and low concentrations of molecules as signals, rather than the high and low voltages in electronics. Successful proofs of principle of nucleic acid computers have already been built, and researchers are working on more complex systems. Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have, for instance, built a DNA-based neural network that operates like a tiny brain. - Author(s): S. Temple and S. Furber
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, page: 71 –71
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1215
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University of Manchester and IBM US have, in parallel projects, developed cognitive computing chips to create working models of human brain-functions. The idea of both projects is to imitate brain abilities, such as sensation, perception, action, interaction, and cognition using high-performance computers, then see how insights can inform the development of next-generation computer systems. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 72 –75
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1216
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Still in his twenties, Ed Lea is CTO with Grapple, a company that builds cross-platform smartphone applications, or 'apps'. Words and portrait by Nick Smith. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 76 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1217
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The paper presents the cutting cost that the chipmakers wants by moving pizza-sized wafers, but could it prove to be an expensive mistake. The question is whether, if they decide to push ahead, the chipmakers can organise a less messy transition and, in doing so, bring the equipment suppliers with them. The plan is to coordinate their efforts through a joint pilot line operated by companies who want 450 mm production. They have yet to decide on a location or how the project will be managed but the chipmaking R&D centre in Albany, New York is the prime candidate right now. However, there will be other R&D locations. Intel's latest R&D fab is designed to handle 450nm wafers as is the new clean room at IMEC in Belgium. - Author(s): J. Hayes
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 80 –83
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1218
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How has the science, engineering and technology in cinema classic 'Blade Runner' progressed over the 30 years since the film's first release? - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 84 –87
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1219
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In Spring 2009, PC maker Dell decided it needed to do more to sell its computers to women. The marketing team came up with what they thought was the answer: build a home for them in the shape of the Della website. It sold pastel-shaded notebook PCs alongside fashion and dieting tips. It quickly became a lightning rod for women's dissatisfaction with what has become a peculiar trend among gadget makers: to sell to women simply make a product smaller and paint it pink. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 88 –89
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1234
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First post-shuttle space mission touches down. - Author(s): W. Webb
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 90 –92
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1220
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Mobile operators increasingly assume that they will sell 4G to consumers on the basis of higher data rates, and then use the combination of a new technology and newly available spectrum to increase the capacity of their network. It's true that ill indeed provide some additional capacity, but operators would be well advised to prepare for it falling significantly short fit' what Is required. Mobile capacity is determined not by one single factor, but by three: the amount of spectrum; f the technology; and the number of cells deployed. - Author(s): T. Krantz
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, page: 93 –93
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1235
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From the docile Dollies plodding into a modern Californian milking parlour all the way to Santa's traditional refreshment, we trace milk's mechanised journey. - Author(s): S. Munk
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 94 –95
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1236
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Recycled TVs, iPhone cases made from rice husks, solarpowered sailcloth bags and a recycling bin you don't need to touch to open - technology's gone green. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 96 –97
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1221
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LG's new interactive display is packed with features, but may have a limited shelf life. The 50PZ950 50in 3DTV plasma is both a flagship product and an outlier from the Korean electronics giant. It showcases the company's smart TV interactive services handsomely and is part of the first wave of high-quality mid-market priced (typically £1,000 in the UK) PX950T 3D displays. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 98 –99
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1222
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We road-test the latest productivity software offerings, including much-improved voice recognition software. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 100 –101
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1237
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Still looking for a gift for the engineer in your life? New books on travel, language, beer and history all have an element of technology. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 102 –103
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1238
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As corporate belts tighten and creativity feels the squeeze, perhaps the toughest question for companies to answer is 'what's next?' Nick Smith talks to author Andrea Kates, who sets out to answer just that. - Author(s): J. Pollard
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, page: 108 –108
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1239
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Moving Cleopatra's Needle from Egypt to London's Embankment was a major feat of engineering. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, page: 109 –109
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1240
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Jack's Dad's mid-life crisis provides an unexpected bonus at the family's Christmas drinks party. - Author(s): M. Barfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, page: 110 –110
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1241
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A bit of Christmas fun for engineers in this month's e&tCetera. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, p. 112 –113
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1242
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This month we go back in time to the Crystal Palace. - Author(s): V. Vitaliev
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 6, Issue 12, page: 114 –114
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2011.1243
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Cross-Channel ferries are not just means of transport, but also living links between continents, cultures and time-zones.
Editor's letter
World news
News
The graphic: Fracking
News
Number news
News in brief
Taking stock
News
News analysis: Offshore wind needs more than optimism to meet its targets
Letters to the Editor
Comment: If you ask me
For and against
The bigger picture: Spittelau Incinerator
This festive waste [waste management]
War on waste
The nightmare after Christmas [food waste disposal]
Demise of landfill
Zero-waste Olympic Games [waste management]
Dump that data
Battery recycling
Photo essay
Faraday: A man of contradictions
Getting in on the act [new communicative technologies are asking the audience to help make the story]
one2ten
Computing with the stuff of life
Packet-switched brain models, and cognitive computing
Interview with Ed Lea
450mm or bust?
Tech-noir
What women don't want
The bigger picture: Returning astronauts touch down in Kazkhstan.
Finding 4G's 'Grid to Go'
My round
Gadgets
The teardown - LG 50PZ950 3D/Smart TV plasma display
Software reviews: Productivity software
Book reviews
Book interview: Andrea Kates
The eccentric engineer
Jack's blog
E&Tcetera
Classic projects: The Crystal Palace
After all: New year's eve ferry becomes a time machine
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