Sunday - 20 July 2008

Opinion

Industry views and comment

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

Dig deep for innovation
To many of us in the UK the word mining conjures up images of our industrial history — the coal fields of Yorkshire and South Wales or the tin mines of Cornwall....
Published: The Engineer - 14 July 2008

Growing pains
Amid worries over food shortages and the destruction of huge tracts of rain forest to grow fuel crops, governments have begun backing away from their earlier enthusiasm for biofuels. ...
Published: The Engineer Online - 08 July 2008

Incentives the answer
Your comment piece (June 16) did a good job of banging the drum for those of us who 'make stuff' and might have the seeds of a route through the current recruitment crisis. ...
Published: The Engineer - 02 July 2008

Wake-up call
As a senior engineer of some 30 years' experience I was heartened by your editorial 'Why we can't do without engineers' ...
Published: The Engineer - 02 July 2008

Causing a stir
At around 11am every day, there is a long-standing debate in our office about the coffee making process and I wonder if any of your readers would be able to settle the matter once and for all. ...
Published: The Engineer - 02 July 2008

French revolution
Rumours over a proposed European rival to the US space shuttle were given fresh life this week with the news that the French government plans to use its presidency of the EU to kickstart a European space revolution. ...
Published: The Engineer Online - 02 July 2008

Monumental loss
In your article 'Monumental task' about Dounreay you describe the Fast Reactor sphere as a monument to a technology whose time never came. ...
Published: The Engineer - 01 July 2008

UK can lead clean air push
It Is common at the moment to hear that the aerospace industry is undergoing 'a period of major change.' To which it is tempting to reply — 'so what's new?'...
Published: The Engineer - 30 June 2008

Train in vain?
France did it, Japan did it, and now Britain is considering it: linking the countries’ cities together with a network of high-speed train lines. ...
Published: The Engineer Online - 25 June 2008

Strategy for the future
A total rethink of our approach to innovation within hi-tech industries is vital to ensure UK firms can continue to compete internationally, says James Raby...
Published: The Engineer - 18 June 2008

Hydrogen hopes
As the shadows lengthen across the nation’s forecourts, a rosier vision of motoring was yesterday unveiled by Japanese car giant Honda, which took the wraps off its FCX Clarity, billed as world’s first commercially available hydrogen fuel cell car...
Published: The Engineer Online - 18 June 2008

Military madness
I am always struck by the apparent gap between the amazing hi-tech devices and weapons being developed for the UK military and what you hear about life on the ground for the average soldier...
Published: The Engineer - 16 June 2008

Nuclear no-go
The use of nuclear energy will do nothing to stop the problems caused by our society's over-reliance on carbon fuels to power our transport systems...
Published: The Engineer - 16 June 2008

Power points
Our Online leader article 'Balance of power' highlighted the rising cost of fuel and the need for cheaper, more efficient vehicles. Here is a selection of your emails. ...
Published: The Engineer - 16 June 2008

Reactor danger
We must safeguard against nuclear bombs or aircraft strikes on nuclear reactors — a possibility that must be accounted for over the 50-year life of a reactor...
Published: The Engineer - 16 June 2008

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