The Energy Institute (EI) have announced the recipient of the 72nd Melchett Award, is Andrew Warren FEI, Director, of the Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE). Mr Warren was presented with his award by Dr Joanne Wade FEI, EI Honorary Secretary, at an evening reception in London.
Andrew Warren has [...]
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Software firm Micro Drainage have said that a computer model that it has built for West Berkshire town of Thatcham had corresponded with the location of households submitting claims for last summers storm.
Managing Director Aiden Millerick claims that in just two weeks, “We identified the major pluvial flow paths, the vulnerable areas, the speed and [...]
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Jaguar Land Rover are creating six hundred jobs at its plant in Gayden, Warwickshire, as part of a £700million project to develop less thirsty, less polluting cars.
The EU directive that average emission for all new cars will be reduced to 120 grams per kilometre by 2012 or face a per gram penalty, has sent the [...]
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John Hutton has outlined his vision of a new era of power generation for the UK, which he
likens to the North Sea oil boom.
But unlike invisible, non-invasive offshore drilling, Nuclear Reactors are always local to
quite a few people even if located in areas of sparse population.
In a reverse of Malthusian gloom predicted prior to the [...]
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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority [NDA], currently with its hands full shutting off and making safe all but two of the UK’s eighteen nuclear sites, has now fully entered the fray concerning their redevelopment.
In January, Business secretary John Hutton invited the energy industry to propose the future of Nuclear power generation in the UK; apparently “interest [...]
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