The Engineer
16 January 2006
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In-spired thinking
20 Jan 2006
Spain’s Sagrada Família — which is still unfinished after 123 years — is at last being completed with the help of state-of-the-art software technology. Charles Clarke reports.
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Water jets for finer surgical cuts
20 Jan 2006
Tools powerful enough to sever cables in the North Sea are being redesigned to replace surgical saws in operating theatres, offering greater speed and accuracy than current instruments.
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Fast talk
19 Jan 2006
The message from next month’s shows at the NEC is that the drive towards quicker and easier communication between intelligent components is on in earnest. Colin Carter reports.
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Another fine mesh
19 Jan 2006
In environments such as shipping and utilities, where higher ratios and greater torque are required, a planetary gearhead system seems to provide the answer, says Mark Venables.
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Cold water treatment
18 Jan 2006
Maintaining traditional ceramic heatshields is a costly and time-consuming business, but water-cooled alloy could create a cheaper re-usable alternative. Stuart Nathan reports.
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Moths provide an eye opener on reflection
18 Jan 2006
Copying the properties of moths’ eyes could improve the efficiency of solar cells, thanks to a collaboration between the University of Southampton and Philips in the Netherlands. ...
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Good impression
18 Jan 2006
Technique adapted from biotechnology research cuts testing of mechanical properties in materials from weeks to hours. Stuart Nathan reports.
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Structural change
18 Jan 2006
Groundbreaking technique will allow components to be custom-made, and could reduce the weight and improve fuel economy in aircraft and cars. Stuart Nathan explains.
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Display of speed
17 Jan 2006
Surrey University researchers claim to have made the first low-cost amorphous semiconductors with negative resistance. This could meet the increasing demand for high-speed electronics for large flat-display screens and mobile communications that are cheap ...
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Going to town
17 Jan 2006
Wi-Fi gets urban from March with four million people in city ‘hotspots’ able to connect wirelessly to the internet via laptops, PDAs and Wi-Fi enabled phones. Niall Firth reports.
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Letting fly
17 Jan 2006
Commuting to work by aeroplane may not be a mere flight of fancy, according to Lynne Wenberg, Boeing’s head of R&D into Personal Transport Systems. Niall Firth reports.
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Better oil exploration
17 Jan 2006
UK-developed monitoring techniques could save the oil and gas industry hundreds of millions of pounds a year in its continued search for untapped resources.
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Composed performance
17 Jan 2006
A high-strength aluminium alloy prepared by researchers in the US could significantly improve the performance of next-generation fighter aircraft, specifically the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
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Making light work
17 Jan 2006
A system that uses light to diagnose mutated DNA sequences could dramatically speed up the time it takes to diagnose potential problems in the treatment of diseases such as leukaemia.
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Catching falling stardust
16 Jan 2006
NASA’s capsule containing dust from Comet Wild 2 returned to Earth yesterday, landing in the desert salt flats of the US Air Force Utah Test and Training Range.
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Honda to take hydrogen car into production
16 Jan 2006
US Honda will commence production of its FCX hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle (FCV) in three to four years, the company announced at the North American International Motor Show.
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You’ve gotta hand it to Philips…
16 Jan 2006
Among the myriad products on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, was Philips’ Entertaible, a tabletop gaming platform that combines multi-player board and computer games.
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A miner power point
16 Jan 2006
The debate in your magazine over the UK’s future energy requirement, and how to meet it, has been excellent; I am pro nuclear.
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Sky damage the limit
16 Jan 2006
With reference to your editorial ‘Eastern promise a boon for UK aerospace’, I am sad there is no reference to the damage all this additional flying will do to the upper atmosphere.
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So what else is new?
16 Jan 2006
I find myself reluctantly agreeing with much of Andrew Lee’s editorial regarding the re-opened debate on nuclear power.
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A celebration of innovation
16 Jan 2006
Happy new year, and welcome to January 1976. Let’s take a quick look at what’s making the news in The Engineer this week.
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Cash injection set to boost ZBD’s production
16 Jan 2006
ZBD Displays, the Malvern-based company that pioneered the ‘zero power’ LCD screen, has raised half a million pounds to boost its global production capabilities and technological development.
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ReEnergy raises £6.5m on AIM
16 Jan 2006
Waste management, sustainable energy and water treatment group ReEnergy, which converts waste into fuel for power stations, has raised £6.5m after joining the Alternative Investment Market.
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Turning down the heat
16 Jan 2006
London’s Tube is the oldest in the world, and in terms of how hot it gets underground in summer it shows. Jon Excell reports on how London Underground is spearheading an initiative aimed at cooling the system.
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Big screen romance
16 Jan 2006
This month’s Consumer Electronics Show showcased the public’s continuing love affair with the latest devices. But along with popularity go responsibilities and global realities, says Gary Shapiro.
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Tsunami detectives
16 Jan 2006
The first element of deep-sea early-warning tsunami detection system is up and running.
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Green marks for black stuff
16 Jan 2006
A method of generating energy from coal without actually burning it could form the basis of power stations whose carbon emissions can be easily captured and stored.
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Sniffing out emissions
16 Jan 2006
A new system that uses a sensing technology more commonly found inside power plants is to monitor bad odours and methane gas escaping from landfill sites.
