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Green is the scene in the latest car designs |
30/09/2008 |
| Hybrids, battery power and small cars are prominent in “The Car Design Yearbook 7”, which remains the definitive annual guide to new concept and production cars world wide |
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Polymers offer potential to cheaply capture more solar energy |
26/09/2008 |
| Assistant professor Qiquan Qiao in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota, is investigating organic photovoltaics as a less expensive and more efficient way of harvesting solar energy |
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Magnetic fridge gets closer to market |
23/09/2008 |
| The magnetic gas free refrigeration technology described in the February 2007 edition of Eureka has just been ranked top of its category in the Guardian/Library House “Cleantech 100” list. |
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Parliament wants to hear from engineering employers |
17/09/2008 |
| Engineering employers are being invited to go online to offer their views direct to Parliament on the state of engineering in the UK in a new web-forum just opened by the House of Commons Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee |
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Microwaves make bright car headlights |
16/09/2008 |
| A set of headlights has been made using a novel lighting system that relies on microwaves exciting a plasma, and has been fitted to and tested on a BMW car at Silverstone |
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More funds invested in Green Energy |
15/09/2008 |
| Green Energy Options, whose energy monitoring and real time display system was featured in the October 2007 edition of Eureka, has received another £250,000 in investment from Thames Valley Investment Network members, as part of an £800,000 funding round. |
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Spiderbots may repair spacecraft in flight |
12/09/2008 |
| Small, palm sized, six legged robots have been developed by NASA to function cooperatively in order to undertake construction, repair, exploration, search and rescue activities in space. |
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Fusion superconducting coil passes test |
11/09/2008 |
| A superconducting test coil for ITER, the next generation nuclear fusion reactor that many hope will open the way to almost limitless cheap, fairly clean power, has been tested successfully |
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Government comes up with new manufacturing strategy |
09/09/2008 |
| The Government’s just published manufacturing strategy, “Manufacturing: New Challenges, New Opportunities”, has identified what it describes as, “Five major dynamics that are reshaping global manufacturing” and has come up with some solutions to meet them. |
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Sensing fabric push button protects card data |
08/09/2008 |
| Chip and PIN cards and RFID access cards and passports can be protected from data skimming by placing a very thin sensing fabric push button in the circuit connecting the terminal pins or the RFID antenna to the chip |
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Designing out bugs could earn £25,000 |
04/09/2008 |
| Sums of £25,000 are being offered in a new “Design Bugs Out” challenge to find solutions to five design problems that are sources of health care assisted infections (HCAIs) in hospitals |
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Stars shine in Grand Challenge |
03/09/2008 |
| The overall winner of the R J Mitchell Trophy in the MOD’s Grand Challenge to find a way of locating threats to troops fighting in an urban environment was Team Stellar |
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