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NEWS: Engine is on the pulse.
Dec 07, 2009 ... BY SIOBHAN WAGNER The developers of an engine that relies on electrical pulses from a battery to produce mechanical potential energy claim that it could replace traditional internal-combustion engines (ICEs). The backers of the concept, from Barreiro, claim that its ...
NEWS: A smart move to reduce emissions.
Dec 07, 2009 ... by JASON FORD GE Energy has opened what is claimed to be Europe's first smart-grid centre at the company's Bracknell headquarters. The centre has been designed for stakeholders in energy generation and management to experience what GE describes as a ...
NEWS: Team fuel diesel car efficiency.
Dec 07, 2009 ... Engineers from BP, Ford and Bath University have jointly developed hardware and lubricant technologies to achieve an eight per cent fuel- efficiency improvement in diesel cars. The team, which was involved in a three-year project sponsored by the Technology Strategy Board, ...
NEWS: Forces are hard at work with fast-growing algae.
Dec 07, 2009 ... Team demonstrates magnetic harvesting process using algae mixture by SIOBHAN WAGNER Siemens researchers have developed a way to harvest algae with magnets, making it easier to exploit the raw material for biogas plants. The research team, based in ...
COMMENT: Copenhagen ready for 'emission impossible'.
Dec 07, 2009 ... After months of anticipation - alternately buoyed by optimism and deflated by disagreement - the UN's Copenhagen climate-change summit is finally upon us. Billed as a last-ditch effort to prevent runaway climate change, rarely has a gathering of world leaders assumed such importance. ...