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• New Ideas Sharpen Focus for Greener Aircraft

  
  The Engineering Economist — Authority: 122
  Engineerblogger Jan 30, 2012 Three proposed aircraft designs have varying levels of success in meeting tough NASA goals for reducing fuel use, emissions and noise all at the same time. Image credit: NASA Leaner, greener flying machines for the year 2025 are on the drawing boards of three ...
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• Device Could Drive Down Solars Cost

  
  The Engineering Economist — Authority: 122
  Technology Review Jan 31, 2012   Power play: Inverters mounted to the bottom of each panel provide grid-ready power at a test site in Sunnyvale, California. Credit: ArrayPower As solar panel manufacturers try to harvest more of the suns energy for less, they face ...
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• Smart paint could revolutionise structural safety

  
  The Engineering Economist — Authority: 122
  Engineerblogger Jan 31, 2012 Dr Mohamed Saafi. Credit: University of Strathclyde An innovative low-cost smart paint that can detect microscopic faults in wind turbines, mines and bridges before structural damage occurs is being developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde in ...
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• Scottish sailing engineers have designs on world speed record

  
  The Engineering Economist — Authority: 122
  The Engineer Jan 23, 2012 The Abaqus software enabled Clarke’s team to consider many wing-sail design variables.  Credit: The Engineer Simulation software from Dassault is being used to help a team of engineers get its extreme sailing boat - the V-44 Albatross - off the ground The ...
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• Keeping high-performance electronics cool

  
  The Engineering Economist — Authority: 122
  Engineerblogger Jan 30, 2012 The development of sophisticated electronics using high-performance computer chips that generate much more heat than conventional chips is challenging scientists to come up with a new type of compact cooling system to keep temperatures under control. For the past few years, a ...
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• Heavy going without lightweight materials

  
  The Engineering Economist — Authority: 122
  Engineerblogger Jan 27, 2012 Source: iStock-Foto Automobiles made of steel suffer from a weight problem, and racing yachts made of steel have no chance of winning regattas. Fiber-reinforced composites offer an alternative which has spread rapidly in the transport industry. Empas offers an overview ...
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• Novel Materials for Hydrogen Storage

  
  The Engineering Economist — Authority: 122
  Engineerblogger Jan 27, 2012 Berkeley Lab scientist Jeffrey Long co-leads a project to develop novel materials for hydrogen storage. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) The biggest challenge with hydrogen-powered fuel cells lies in the storage of hydrogen: how to store enough of it, in a safe ...
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• Health and Environmental Effects of Nanomaterials Remain Uncertain; Cohesive Research Plan Needed to Help Avoid Potential Risks From Rapidly Evolving Technology

  
  The Engineering Economist — Authority: 122
  Engineerblogger Jan 26, 2012 Despite extensive investment in nanotechnology and increasing commercialization over the last decade, insufficient understanding remains about the environmental, health, and safety aspects of nanomaterials. Without a coordinated research plan to help guide efforts to manage and avoid ...
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• wi-tribe and UET unveil ‘wi-cam‘

  
  In the Line of Wire — Authority: 97
  wi-tribe Pakistan and Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science , University of Engineering and Technology (KICS-UET) unveiled ‘wi-cam’ at a press conference held at the UET campus today. wi-cam, a CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Management and Administration tool, developed by students and graduates of ...
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• Carbon Nanotubes Chart Their Own Course

  
  The Engineering Economist — Authority: 122
  R&D Magazine Oct 18, 2011 Optical image of a completed graphene integrated circuit (IC) including contact pads. The probes for testing the circuit (P1-P4) are also shown. The scale bar is 100 µm. Credit: IBM Not since in the development of carbon fiber in the 1960s has a material stimulated so ...
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• Chemistry Professor developing sustainable bioplastics

  
  The Engineering Economist — Authority: 122
  Engineerblogger Jan 19, 2012 The cover of Angewandte Chemie International Edition that illustrates CSU Professor Eugene Chens research. Credit: Colorado State A CSU chemistry professor has developed several patent-pending chemical processes that would create sustainable bioplastics from renewable ...
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• New CRS Report on Federal Networking and IT Research and Development Program

  
  GeoData Policy — Authority: 461
  The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development  Program: Background, Funding, and Activities by Patricia Moloney Figliola, Congressional Research Service, January 13, 2012 SUMMARY: In the early 1990s, Congress recognized that several federal agencies had ongoing high performance computing ...
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• Almost half Australia’s food industry is owned by foreign investors, report shows

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 120
  A report on foreign investment in Australia from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) has found that foreign firms accounted for ownership of about half of the nation’s dairy, sugar and red meat sectors. The report, commissioned by the Australian Government’s Rural ...
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• Lowongan Kerja Nutrifood

  
  Lowongan Kerja Terbaru - www.bilaboong.com — Authority: 113
  Established in 1979, Nutrifood manufactures and markets international-quality health foods and beverages under leading brands. Our brands are : Nutrisari, Tropicana Slim, L-Men, WRP, HiLo, and WRP Diet Center (WDC). Due our rapid growth, we invite dynamic professionals to grow with usRead more » Lowongan Kerja : ...
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• The U.S. Coast Guard Is a Sound Investment in Homeland Security

  
  Defense Media Network — Authority: 419
  The history of the U.S. Coast Guard is a two-century chronicle of people figuring out how to protect the nation’s maritime domain using the resources at hand and operating in challenging, often...
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• China publishes first industrial restructuring plan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Beijing, Jan 18 (IANS) China Wednesday published its first long-term industrial restructuring and upgrading plan.China targets an 8-percent value-added industrial growth over the next four years, a 2-percentage-point rise in value-added ratio from the end of 2010, and a 10-percent annual increase in overall labour ...
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• BASF halts genetically modified crop ops in Europe

  
  Bizmology — Authority: 124
  Genetically modified products have been a bit of a hot potato for BASF. But now the world’s largest chemical company is tossing that hot — but genetically altered — potato [...]
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• Looks Like Everybody Wants Unmanned Cargo Capabilities

  
  Defense Media Network — Authority: 419
  A multi-service general officer panel appearing at one industry conference in late 2011 was faced with an audience question of when the coming fiscal environment might force the services to combine...
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• Powering Electric Vehicles with Sunlight

  
  The Engineering Economist — Authority: 122
  Engineerblogger Jan 18, 2012 Matthew Barth, director of the Center for Environmental Research and Technology and principal investigator on the $2 million grant  Credit: University of California - Riverside The Riverside area will become a leader in powering electric vehicles from the sun under a $2 ...
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• New microtweezers may build tiny MEMS structures

  
  The Engineering Economist — Authority: 122
  Engineerblogger Jan 18, 2012 Purdue researchers have created a new type of microtweezers capable of manipulating objects to build tiny structures, print coatings to make advanced sensors, and grab and position live stem cell spheres for research. (Birck Nanotechnology Center photo) Researchers have ...
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