News Digest 7 Oct 2014

ગુજરાતના દરિયામાં દેશનો પ્રથમ વિંડ પાવર પ્લાન્ટ

Sandesh | 7 Oct 2014 | Read More

સ્વચ્છતા એ સરકારનું નહિ, સમાજનું કામ છે

Sandesh | 7 Oct 2014 | Read More

Managing waste, messages

Ahmedabad Mirror | 6 Oct 2014

From waste management to creating a platform for communication among schools, products on demo by young entrepreneurs at MICA promises a more empowered and organised society. Mirror takes a look at some of the enterprises. Budding entrepreneurs andinnovators demonstratedtheir ideas and products andtalked about their journey atMICA on Sunday. Coming on a common platform created by eChai about a dozen youths shared their ideas, discussed their products and talked about the challenges they faced. Read More

Do you have employable skills? : The modern-day skills will give you an edge in the job market

Ahmedabad Mirror | 3 Oct 2014

While the last few years' talent supply indexes seem to suggest that India's employability potential is on the rise, there is a paucity for talent to fill high-skilled, jobs, which bring us to an interesting paradox. Qualified resources are forced to choose between unemployment and `underemployment', as their skills don't match the market expectations. Organizations typically look at an entrepreneurial streak, ownership, out-of-the-box thinking, high degree of passion, commitment and professional pride. Read More

Ordinary lenses used as a cloaking device

Ahmedabad Mirror | 1 Oct 2014

Researchers have used ordinary lenses to create an invisibility cloak that can hide objects from view. The approach is so simple that they have given out instructions on how to build your own. Inspired perhaps by Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, scientists have recently developed several ways ­ some simple and some in volving new technologies ­ to hide objects from view. Read More

Antibacterial material made with red algae

Ahmedabad Mirror | 1 Oct 2014

Consumers concerned about safety of silver ions in antibacterial and odour-free clothing will soon have a proven safe alternative thanks to ultra-thin thread and a substance found naturally in red algae. The use of silver ions for antibacterial textiles has been a matter of hot debate worldwide.Some agencies have ruled silver a health risk, citing possible damage to human genetic material, reproduction and embryonic development. Read More

New study will compare small electricity generating plants

A new research project funded by the Energy Technologies Institute aims to enable the direct comparison between different types of small electricity generating plants, including nuclear reactors. Read more

Two-wheeled pioneers sought for bike constructors' challenge

Britain’s 12 cycling medals at London 2012 were a victory for UK engineering as well as athletic prowess. Composites specialist Dimitris Katsanis was key to team GB’s cycling success at the London Olympics, as were BAE Systems, McLaren Applied Technologies and Sheffield Hallam University who worked in partnership with British Cycling to develop track based measurement tools and systems to monitor the performance of our athletes. Read more

On-board device helps prevent volcanic ash damage to aircraft

New technology could help alert airlines to dangerous build-ups of volcanic ash in aircraft engines – potentially saving millions of pounds in unscheduled repairs. A group of European firms have adapted technology used to analyse emissions from industrial chimneys to create a device that can identify particles of volcanic ash as small as 10 microns within an engine feed. Read more

Additive advance: measurement helps additive techniques into manufacturing

High-speed measurement technology is helping to integrate 3D printing into mainstream manufacturing.

After years of hype, additive manufacturing techniques that build products layer by layer are starting to become more commonplace in shop-floor production, as well as in the design office. They are already producing a step change in the way certain customised products are made, for example, medical implants and bespoke aerospace components. However, 3D printing remains largely separate from conventional subtractive machining and, as a result, a long way from becoming part of automated assembly lines. Read More

Power and performance: the Formula E battery

Williams overcame technical and time constraints to develop a battery for Formula E. The battery is the car, according to Gary Ekerold, operations manager at Williams Advanced Engineering and head of the programme to design the battery for the Formula E electric racing series. It’s a comment that is difficult to grasp until you see the battery itself. Read more

Low Carbon Vehicles come of age

When considering the likely rate of engineering development, or the weather for that matter, predictions are unwise. At the time of writing, we’re experiencing something of an Indian summer. In October 2008 - at the very first of the Cenex Low Carbon Vehicle showcase events, we faced a combination of snow and uncertainty – outright scepticism in some quarters, around the commercial viability of low carbon vehicles. Given the number of prototype vehicles at that first event – just five, we faced anything but a guarantee that this area of automotive innovation would gain traction. Read more

New tool to estimate impact of exploration on marine environment

A new tool that will enable the UK oil and gas industry to estimate what effects oil and gas exploration will have on the marine environment, is to be developed by a scientist at Heriot-Watt University (HWU). Read More

Electric car to be designed using cloud-based tools

The yet to be unveiled production model of Riversimple's hydgrogen cell car will be designed using Arcadia from Cadonix. This demonstrator model is currently on show at the Science Museum in London

Cadonix Ltd, the Cloud-based automotive harness CAD specialist, has announced that Riversimple has adopted its Arcadia cloud-based tools to develop the first road-going version of its hydrogen fuel cell powered car. Read More

New vortex flowmeter for advanced energy measurement

Krohne has introduced the new Optiswirl 4200 vortex flowmeter for the measurement of conducting and non-conducting liquids, gases and steam. The new device is targeted at auxiliary and supply applications in various industries, such as internal monitoring of energy flows for saturated and superheated steam or hot water, and heat metering applications. Areas of usage also cover steam boiler monitoring, burner consumption measurement or compressed air network monitoring, including FAD applications. Read More

Cheap Solar Absorbs Entire Spectrum

PORTLAND, Ore. — The biggest problem with photovoltaic (PV) panels may have been solved by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Today, the most efficient solar panels use expensive multi-junctions, each of which capture a different part of the solar spectrum, but not all of it. Read More

New approach to fusion delivers copious neutrons

A new way to crush tiny amounts of matter in the hope of one day exploiting nuclear fusion for energy generation has been demonstrated by Matthew Gomez and colleagues at the Sandia National Laboratories in the US. The researchers used an enormous magnetic field produced by the lab's Z Pulsed Power Facility (dubbed the"Z-machine"), together with a secondary field and a very brief laser pulse to implode a tube of deuterium fuel. This raised the fuel's temperature to some 35 million degrees and produced lots of neutrons – a signature of fusion. Read More

Majorana quasiparticles glimpsed in magnetic chains

The strongest evidence yet that Majorana quasiparticles (MQPs) can be found lurking in some solids has been unveiled by physicists in the US. The team used a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) to locate MQPs at the ends of atomic chains of magnetic iron lying on the surface of a lead superconductor. MQPs have special properties that could make them ideal for use in quantum computers, and this latest breakthrough could lead to practical devices that make use of the quasiparticles. Read More

Quantum data are compressed for the first time

A quantum analogue of data compression has been demonstrated for the first time in the lab. Physicists working in Canada and Japan have squeezed quantum information contained in three quantum bits (qubits) into two qubits. The technique could pave the way for a more effective use of quantum memories and offers a new method of testing quantum logic devices. Read More