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A Green Solution
Algae are the focus of attempts to achieve commercially-viable systems for harnessing photosynthesis for atmospheric CO2 fixation and biosynthesis of fuels.
Intelligent Ecology
Energy usage and how to manage it has become a hot topic. In this report, Eric Payne looks at the proposals to remake the current energy infrastructure as a smart grid.
Size Matters
Nanotechnology has resulted in the production of tiny materials made up of only a few atoms, but with many unique properties and a myriad of uses.
The Power of Clouds
Cloud computing is the technological phenomenon that is threatening to take over the world. Eric Payne gets to grips with exactly what it is and what it has to offer businesses and consumers, as well as examining some of the contentious issues that widespread adoption raises.
Fluid Information
Given that how we use information will largely define the age we live in, thinkers and analysts are already predicting that the move to the mobile phone will have a widespread socio-economic impact on the way we do business and the way we live our lives.
Sorting out Fact from Fiction
Nutraceuticals, or functional foods, have become big business, with the promise of preventing many chronic diseases and the alleviation of various illnesses and medical complaints.
Taking control
Interacting with machines has become such an intrinsic part of our daily lives that most of us take it for granted. However, many experts believe that the User Interfaces (UIs) we use today are in fact relics of a bygone era.
Fuel of the stars
The search for an alternate energy source capable of replacing carbon producing fossil fuels is one of the most pressing issues currently facing scientists. Long held as the holy grail of sustainable energy production, nuclear fusion is now entering a new phase of development that might see it reach commercialisation sooner than previously thought.
Taking the heat
Superalloys are a generation of alloys distinguished from regular alloys by the remarkable strength properties they exhibit under extreme heat conditions.
Beyond silicon
Computers are at the centre of our lives in the modern world. They are used by consumers to carry out the most basic of tasks and are at the centre of any modern global business or research facility. Eric Payne looks at the latest exciting developments in computing hardware technology and materials and explores the future currently being glimpsed over the horizon.
The New Millennium Bug
Experts say, if something is not done soon then the internet could be facing meltdown. Eric Payne looks at the ongoing debate that will eventually decide the fate of things to come.
Going Solar
The global market for photovoltaic solar energy generation technology is predicted to grow by approximately 15 per cent annually between now and 2012. James Colwill looks at a technology that is finally showing signs of a breakthrough in delivering clean, reliable, and affordable energy.
- Industry
- General
- Energy
As oil starts to run dry, demand rises for hybrid cars, and electric cars make their way from conceptual design to mass production, the future of transport, experts say, lies in lithium.
Revealing the Hidden Charge
Algae are the focus of attempts to achieve commercially-viable systems for harnessing photosynthesis for atmospheric CO2 fixation and biosynthesis of fuels.
A Green Solution
Money may not buy happiness, but can happiness make us money? Is it just that we have had the causality wrong all along?