Hopefully Richard Branson’s $25m climate challenge will do for carbon sequestration what the Ansari X Prize has done for private spaceflight.
Millions of pounds are on offer for the person who comes up with the best way of removing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Whether we can successfully engineer our way out of [...]
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Posted on Sunday 11th February 2007 in Engineering, Science tagged climate change, energy, Engineering, environmental, Science, technology, transport, UK, with no comments.
Is this the future of transport? Engineers in Paderborn, Germany are working on an automated transport system, that could use existing rail networks (with some modifications) to run individual ‘Railcabs’ that take you to your destination without having to change trains. Likened to the internet, with great numbers of these vehicles moving autonomously along the [...]
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Posted on Sunday 14th January 2007 in Engineering tagged Engineering, environmental, Europe, future, transport, with no comments.
Coal Mining Causing Earthquakes
The most damaging earthquake in Australia’s history was caused by humans, new research says. The magnitude-5.6 quake that struck Newcastle, in New South Wales, on December 28, 1989, killed 13 people, injured 160, and caused 3.5 billion U.S. dollars worth of damage. [National Geographic]
The article goes on to talk about carbon sequestration [...]
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Posted on Sunday 7th January 2007 in Engineering, Politics, Science tagged climate change, construction, Engineering, environmental, future, landfill, natural-disaster, news, Politics, recycling, UK, with no comments.
Some amazing videos created by artist Aaron Koblin which show flight traffic over the USA. What may at fist appear a dull subject is transformed by these magical videos, with streaks of colour dancing across the screen. Patterns emerge, including the shape of the continent, and the onset of daybreak across the country. Definitely [...]
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Posted on Monday 1st January 2007 in Computers, Engineering tagged art, Computers, Engineering, mapping, mathematics, transport, USofA, with no comments.
After the plans were unveiled for the Edinburgh Airport Rail link the Scottish Parliament has now given the go ahead for the Glasgow rail link.
So much for a sustainable transport plan then.
“_Who cares about the potential for global climate change, as long as we can have easy access to our cheap flights!_”
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Posted on Wednesday 29th November 2006 in Blog tagged climate change, construction, Edinburgh, Engineering, environmental, future, Glasgow, Politics, with no comments.
