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Chipping away at speed limits |
30/06/2008 |
| New technology enables a controller to smash through the speed limitations of a conventional computer-derived controller |
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Government asks for green advice |
27/06/2008 |
| The Government is asking for advice as to how it is going to meet its obligation that it play its part in the EU’s strategy to ensure that 20 per cent of its energy consumption must come from renewable sources by 2020 |
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Bearing fruit |
26/06/2008 |
| A low-cost vibration analyser is proving particularly good at picking up bearing damage and helping to identify other faults |
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New mechanism makes descent rate constant |
23/06/2008 |
| Researchers working for NASA have devised a simple mechanism that makes descent rate limiting mechanisms run at constant speed, instead of slowing down as the rope or cable is paid out |
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Establishing standards for green design |
20/06/2008 |
| BSi British Standards is seriously contemplating the production of a set of standards on sustainable design, and has got together with the Design Council and other UK design organisations in order to do so |
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Making a noise about thermometry |
12/06/2008 |
| Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a system that relies on the noise created by electrons as a basis for measuring temperatures with extreme precision. |
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