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Volume 7, Issue 11
December 2012
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- Author(s): D. Ross
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1122
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The world is going to have to learn to live with a warmer climate and engineering will help it to cope. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 6 –7
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1123
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The latest engineering stories from around the globe. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 8 –9
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1124
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When Hurricane Sandy hit New York. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, page: 10 –10
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1125
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(2 pages) - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, page: 14 –14
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1126
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A barrage of new aircraft for Brazil and Scotland's renewable targets make the number news this month. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, page: 16 –16
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1127
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- Author(s): B. Cervi
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 18 –19
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1128
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Were you glued to the BAE-EADS soap opera? You may have missed the saga of another British firm. also, cutprice consumer electronics are adding to Japanese woes. - Author(s): M. Venables
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 20 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1100
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The paper presents the smart technologies that help in restoring electric power services when Hurricane Sandy struck U.S.A. - Author(s): Karami ; D.J. Bradley ; D.J. Inman
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, page: 22 –22
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1101
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American researchers have tested an experimental device that can use energy from a beating heart to produce electricity, raising hopes for future battery-free cardiac pacemakers that would last indefinitely, saving heart patients from repeat surgery to replace their implants when the batteries are spent. - Author(s): N. Stone
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, page: 23 –23
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1129
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Loose talk from politicians about regulatory burdens does nothing to help create effective health and safety regulation, says Neal Stone. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 24 –25
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1130
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Pick of the E&T inbox. - Author(s): P. Langdon
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, page: 26 –26
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1102
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Have scientists been responsible for exaggerating the extent to which human activity is affecting the global climate? This article discusses a conclusive body of evidence to support the existence of manmade climate change. - Author(s): J. Ball
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, page: 27 –27
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1103
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This paper presents evidence that there are no catastrophic changes leading to climate change. - Author(s): M. Venables
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 28 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1104
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release its latest climate change findings, 'The Fifth Assessment Report', midway through 2013. It will come as no surprise if its conclusions are more portentous than the previous report over five years ago. - Author(s): T. James
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 30 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1105
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Climate change is no longer a matter of debate; it affects our everyday lives, regardless of whether it has been caused by human or non-human phenomena. Over the coming decade, weather forecasting will become increasingly important as we adapt to cope. With the modern advancement of weather forecasting, the likelihood of a mistake on the announcement is remote. However, weather patterns will grow ever more complex and unpredictable with climate change, and technology will have to bear the burden. - Author(s): C. Andrews
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 32 –35
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1106
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The UK, like the rest of the world, has experienced heavy flooding over the past decade, which has affected thousands of people and caused millions of pounds worth of damage. Although it is impossible to say this increased flooding is a direct result of climate change, some computer predictions say that we can expect to see further extreme weather events in the future. - Author(s): N. Spurrier
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 36 –37
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1107
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With energy prices continuing to rise, mounting ethical concerns about over-consumption and its associated environmental impact, and the looming shadow of climate change growing ever larger and darker, the appeal of 'off-grid' living is growing exponentially. According to a study carried out by the Office of Fair Trading last year, an estimated 3.6 million homes in the UK are already operating independently from the mains gas grid though unplugging completely may still be a step too far for most people. - Author(s): R. Pool
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 38 –41
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1108
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The golden toad (bujo periglenes), was a small, shiny creature that lived in high-altitude cloud-covered tropical forests above the city of Monteverde in Costa Rica. Today it has the dubious title of being the first species believed to have been made extinct by current climate change. Alone male was found in 1989, and despite extensive searches, not one of the toads has since been tracked down. About two-thirds of the 110 harlequin frog species across Central and South America have died out after contracting a fungal infection thought to be triggered by climate change. But while amphibian populations could be hit the hardest by global warming, conservationists have said up to one-third of amphibians are in danger, these creatures are hardly alone. - Author(s): A. Grogan
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 42 –43
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1109
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Whilst reversing climate change is still a going concern, many scientists have resigned themselves to developing processes for adapting to the change. The key to London's climate-change adaptation lies in its defences against increases in flooding and temperature, which will affect all industries from finance to logistics. - Author(s): J. Goodyer
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 44 –47
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1110
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The collection of shots amassed by Balog and his team over years of painstaking fieldwork depicts the seasonal cycles of the vast ice forms situated across the globe in astonishing detail. Viewed alone, the stills show serene, seemingly unending landscapes covered with sparkling, crystaline ice. However, when they're edited, flickbook-style, into short videos an altogether different story emerges. Skyscraper-sized blocks of ice are shown shearing off the glaciers' faces, gigantic waves are created as falling ice churns up in the foaming water, and each year these immense masses of ice are slowly getting smaller and smaller. - Author(s): S. Davies
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 48 –49
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1111
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The current wisdom in agricultural innovation is to engineer crops to better withstand the effects of climate change. But will this help combat world poverty? The prospect of soaring food prices and global warming has brought food security and climate-change concerns to the top of the international agenda. Agriculture now faces the double challenge of dealing with the impact of climate change at the same time as increasing production to meet the food demands of a global population projected to reach 9.1 billion by 2050. - Author(s): A. Harris
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 50 –51
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1112
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Climate change and the rise in population make for an unsustainable drain on the world's drinkable water. Conservation is key to avoiding catastrophic shortages, but can we conserve anywhere near enough? - Author(s): J. Goodyer
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 52 –55
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1113
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The humble flushable toilet has barely changed in almost 200 years: it's a design classic. So why do four out of ten people still have no access to sanitary facilities? It's time to come up with a new look. - Author(s): F. Craig
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 56 –59
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1114
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The year is 2050, the city is London. The landscape of the capital has changed radically after the decision-making process over the effects of climate change was taken out of the hands of engineers and put into the hands of bureaucrats. The story is fiction, taking some worst-case scenarios and building a tale of one potential future - but is such a thing so very unlikely? Decide for yourself... - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 60 –63
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1115
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Sir Ranulph Fiennes talks to E&T about his next expedition, which, with its groundbreaking climate-change research programme, is set to become the most important study of Antartica ever undertaken. This will be his 'Coldest Journey'. Words and portrait by Nick Smith. - Author(s): M. Courtney
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 64 –67
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1116
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A relatively new technology, software-defined networking (SDN), aims to take the intelligence out of networking hardware and put it into centralised software. This enables it to monitor and control those data packets, applications and services that run over the many different types of router, switch, bridge and gateway that comprise data-communications networks. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 68 –69
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1131
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Technology in the classroom has come a long way. From the BBC Micro computer to interactive touchscreens, the education sector has embraced innovative and engaging learning methods. - Author(s): D. Bradbury
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 70 –75
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1117
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The use of UAVs in the military context is a great headline grabber, but a wealth of computer technology is really helping the sector take off in much more creative directions. How will we be employing drones in the upcoming decades? They're being used for everything from terrorising terrorists to monitoring tuna stocks in the ocean. Children are piloting them with smartphones, and law-enforcement officials are using them to track down and capture most-wanted targets. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more popularly known as drones, have developed rapidly in recent years, thanks to some largely untrumpeted developments in information and communications technology. The terms 'UAV' and 'drone' cover a multitude of vehicle types, and the situation is quickly approaching where sub-definitions will be needed to keep up with the variety of products on the market. This technology starts with military applications before making its way into the commercial space. For years, the main uses of UAVs were military ones. Since the Second World War, UAVs have gradually developed from glorified flying bombs into more sophisticated vehicles used for surveillance and targeted attacks. - Author(s): I. Lemco
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 76 –78
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1118
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Though he is now remembered as one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's early design of a unique aero-engine shows he was at ease with technology too. - Author(s): M. Harris
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 79 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1119
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The paper presents the prospects and dangers that remain for the residents of Fukushima after the Fukishima plant disaster, how successfully have other disaster zones managed to recover from nuclear catastrophe. The lessons for this unfortunate eastern city may well be stretched across the northern hemisphere, where thousands of people in America and the former Soviet Union still live in the shadow of nuclear devastation. The threat in the north does not currently come from runaway reactors nor from the much-feared missiles and bombs but from decades of unsafe weapons research and manufacture. America is home to 500 million litres of high-level waste, 40 billion litres of hazardous soil or debris and nearly 10 trillion litres of contaminated water from its military programmes. In Russia, the situation is even worse, with around four times as much solid waste and spent nuclear fuel awaiting permanent disposal. The planet is now facing a clean-up effort that includes humanity's largest ever engineering project in the USA, public health issues affecting tens of thousands in Russia and Kazakhstan, and international dithering over permanent storage for the most dangerous waste. - Author(s): A. Bodhani
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 82 –85
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1120
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Patients around the world are increasingly benefiting from emerging e-health technology, but can it offer similar benefits for medical professionals? The Department of Health's objective is to create a paperless NHS by 2015 by converting patient data into electronic health records (EHRs). - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 86 –89
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1121
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When humble transistors first appeared they were too expensive for consumer use. Now silicon technology developed for the consumer business has been finding its way into specialised niches once the exclusive preserve of pricey proprietary components. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 90 –91
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1132
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The latest stage of Crossrail tunnelling begins. - Author(s): S. Munk
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 92 –93
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1133
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Handheld vacs, wireless music systems and full-frame cameras all get stylish, while the iPhone 5 and tablet e-readers duke it out. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 94 –95
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1134
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Trust Apple to buck a trend and shy away from simplifying the latest iPhone. We take a closer look. - Author(s): B. Betts
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 96 –97
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1135
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Voice recognition technology has come of age, and not just on the desktop - now you can talk to your phone as well as your callers, in multiple languages too. - Author(s): n. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 98 –99
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1136
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Business execution often comes with the language of military engagement. We are on the 'front line'. But there is more to the analogy than just words. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 100 –101
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1137
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You don't have to be planning your own space mission to enjoy a user's equipment guide. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 102 –103
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1138
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'Buses, Bankers & the Beer of Revenge', a collection of Justin Pollard's 'Eccentric Engineer' columns, is set to be released by the IET. Vitali Vitaliev, co-creator and first editor of the column, talks to him about eccentricity, engineering, history, Cate Blanchett and the ideas behind his popular E&T page. - Author(s): J. Pollard
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, page: 104 –104
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1139
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Musical sensation Fred Waring played a key part in developing a device that contributed to saving millions of lives. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, page: 106 –106
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1140
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Despite escaping the student halls for the holidays, Jack still finds himself in the midst of bickering engineers. - Author(s): D. Sandham
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, page: 107 –107
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1141
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Give your brain a workout with this month's testing puzzles, with the chance of a prize for the correct answer. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, p. 108 –109
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1142
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How the Thames Barrier protects London. - Author(s): M. Barfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, page: 110 –110
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1143
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Our monthly selection of improbable facts and stories. - Author(s): V. Vitaliev
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 11, page: 114 –114
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2012.1144
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The new 'Emirates Air line' cable car in London brings back a few chilly memories.
Editor's Letter
World news
The bigger picture: Storm warning
News
Number news
News in brief
Business focus
News analysis: Surviving Sandy - smart technologies help the recovery
News: US team working on heart-powered pacemakers
Comment: If you ask me
Letters to the Editor
There is a conclusive body of evidence to support the existence of manmade climate change
There is no conclusive body of evidence to support the existence of manmade climate change
Climate change: engineering a solution
The eyes of the storm
Swept away
The devolution of power
Move it or lose it
Big city plans [climate change]
On thin ice
Fighting food poverty
The drop in demand
Thinking outside the thunderbox [sanitary facility]
After the floods: a short action describing a London landscape altered by climate change
Interview with Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Service as a standard [software-defined networking concept]
Photo essay
Computing and Comms driving UAVS
Deep thinking and high ideas [design history]
In the shadow of Cold War [waste recovery from nuclear catastrophe]
E-Health: keep taking the tablets?
'Cheap as' driving chips evolution [CCD]
The bigger picture: London Crossrail
Gadgets
The Teardwon: Apple iPhone 5
Software reviews: Voice-to-text technology
Book interview: Damian McKinney
Book reviews
Q&A
The eccentric engineer
Jack's blog
Thinking cap
Classic projects: The Thames Barrier
e&tCetera
After all: Ski-less in the Alps - why I'll never ride another cable car
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