The BBC News team appear to be confused over which sections of the A9 road are single or dual carriageway. The article is about the frequency of accidents on the single carriageway sections of the road, however the photograph that accompanies the article is of the dual carriageway section at Findhorn. It is also filed [...]
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Posted on Thursday 8th May 2008 in Engineering tagged A9, BBC, Engineering, Highland, news, road, Scotland, transport, website, with no comments.
Such chaos! The poor Mercedes driver cannot move his car. How will the UK cope. The car has barely a scratch on it either. Hardly newsworthy damage.
From: BBC NEWS | UK | UK braced for storms and flooding
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Posted on Sunday 9th March 2008 in Blog tagged natural-disaster, news, news-humour, pointless, transport, with no comments.
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.
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.
