Saturday - 30 August 2008

Opinion

Industry views and comment

Green machines
It’s fair to say that motorsport hasn’t had the greatest press lately. Leaving aside the leisure activities of its senior executive, this isn’t the greatest time for a carbon-unfriendly sport. ...
Published: The Engineer Online - 26 August 2008

Long shot
Poland’s decision to become the latest partner in the US Missile Defence initiative provoked dark threats from Russia and marked another milestone for one of the longest running and strangest sagas of post-war military technology....
Published: The Engineer Online - 20 August 2008

Let's be optimistic
In 'Air-brained scheme' Chris Finn is unduly pessimistic about the possibilities of compressed air (CA) energy as the motive power for cars. ...
Published: The Engineer - 20 August 2008

Exploit invention
Your article on the hovercraft shows again how a brilliant UK invention has not been exploited or developed much beyond being a fast, short-trip sea ferry....
Published: The Engineer Online - 20 August 2008

Inflexible power
The UK strongly promotes nuclear and wind power. These forms of generation have common features but make uncomfortable bedfellows. ...
Published: The Engineer - 20 August 2008

Listen to the CBI
Richard Lambert, the CBI director-general, was right to recently highlight the threat posed to the UK economy from the growing shortage of skilled engineers in the UK. ...
Published: The Engineer - 19 August 2008

Uniform infection
Infection in some hospitals and medical environments is abominable. In most cases washing hands with alcohol gel will reduce the transfer of infection to a minimum. ...
Published: The Engineer - 19 August 2008

Go with renewables
The idea that the lights will go out unless we have Kent's Kingsnorth power station or nuclear power is not right. ...
Published: The Engineer - 19 August 2008

Innovation can be UK's golden edge
To say that China has thrown everything but the kitchen sink at making its Olympic Games the greatest show on earth is an understatement. Rest assured the kitchen sink will be there somewhere too — gold-plated and the best that money can buy....
Published: The Engineer - 18 August 2008

A load of crystal balls
The economic slowdown is a worry for all of us, but for the engineering sectors, it’s a particular concern. ...
Published: The Engineer Online - 12 August 2008

Leap of faith
Arguably the biggest stumbling block to low emissions motoring is the fear of the unknown: the consumer’s fear of investing in the automotive equivalent of the Betamax...
Published: The Engineer Online - 05 August 2008

White Knight needed
Sir Richard Branson’s never been shy of publicity, and it’s been hard to avoid his familiar grin this week at the roll-out of the first major piece of Virgin Galactic hardware, the ‘mothership’ that will launch the SpaceShipTwo craft...
Published: The Engineer Online - 29 July 2008

UK's best can still produce the goods
Earlier this year The Engineer joined news organisations from around the world in baking desert heat for a milestone event for the Middle East's energy sector, the official inauguration of the Dolphin Gas Project in Qatar....
Published: The Engineer - 28 July 2008

The right mix
It's a pity Ian Brixey feels he is stereotyped as a nerdy, badly-dressed, socially inept dweeb (Letters, 14 July). I am a retired engineer and have never felt anything of the sort. ...
Published: The Engineer - 28 July 2008

Capture unready
The government’s policy over clean coal has come in for criticism, with a report from an influential parliamentary committee casting doubt over the development of carbon capture and storage. ...
Published: The Engineer Online - 22 July 2008

Bug business
When Gordon Brown announced a £57m deep-cleaning blitz on hospital-borne diseases, it was dismissed by some as little more than an expensive publicity stunt ...
Published: The Engineer Online - 16 July 2008

What about freight?
Most of the interest in a new high-speed rail network concentrates on its benefits for moving people around the country and getting them off the roads — but I think this is missing an important point. ...
Published: The Engineer - 15 July 2008

Scotch this space
Your editorial 'French revolution' highlighting the French government's plans to use its presidency of the EU to kickstart a European space revolution to rival the space shuttle, sums up the argument beautifully. ...
Published: The Engineer - 15 July 2008

French lesson
Building new electricity generating capacity in the UK (The Engineer, passim) will take forever — build it in France. ...
Published: The Engineer - 15 July 2008

Stirring response
You are always banging on about 'sexing up' engineering to attract more young people to the profession. ...
Published: The Engineer - 15 July 2008

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