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Electric Dreams
From printable batteries to kinetic phones, and from 3D televisions to connected cars, the electronics industry continues to move at dizzying speeds, leaving no industry untouched. Laurie Cuthbert investigates how innovation is feeding new technologies and highlighting the need for the world to ween itself off fossil fuels.
A Chemical Reaction to Global Trends
The global nature of the chemical industry is causing a change of focus, leading to growth in the Middle East and Asia, and consolidation in Europe and the US. Simon Davies outlines the current issues facing this important industry, as well as looking at the new products being developed in response to some major worldwide issues.
Control in a Challenging Climate
The HVAC system has become one of the most potent symbols of development, having improved the quality of life of millions of people and developed into a thriving global industry in its own right.
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Tracking Consumer Trends
How can we carry on consuming goods, given limited physical resources and an eco-system that is threatened by such a lifestyle – and do we really want to?
The Power of Renewables
Renewable energy is an emerging industry which has had much greater attention paid to it by investors worldwide in recent years.
Weathering the Storm
With the burden of the economic crisis weighing it down, along with other detrimental factors, it is surprising that companies in the shipbuilding and shipping industry are managing to stay afloat.
Every Last Drop
Bob Combes explores the processes used in enhanced oil recovery (EOR), aimed at extracting the 70 percent of oil typically left behind, and examines the use of microbes, that currently account for about two percent of global oil production, but which have the potential to contribute much more.
Air Turbulence En Route
As airlines continue to go bust and survivors of the crisis face sky-high cash flows, even the director of the aviation sector’s own trade body, IATA, has described the situation as a ‘chronic industry crisis’.
More than a Malthusian Dilemma
The food and drink industry is teetering on the edge of a prolonged global crisis, threatened by failing economies, changes in the Earth’s climate, and a world population that is growing at an alarming rate.
A Nuclear future
As governments around the world turn increasingly towards nuclear power to safeguard the future energy needs of their nations, it is clear that this source of energy is here to stay.
Piracy – Global threat or local annoyance
Incidents of piracy are on the decline, but their severity is on the rise, especially off the coast of Somalia where they seriously threaten East-West shipping. Euroasia looks at what lies behind this trend and the approach it seems to point to.
After the gold rush
Stock exchanges across the world have been hit hard by American banking leaders in crisis. This has some experts asking whether this might see the return of the gold bulls, as investors lose confidence in stocks and shares and move their money onto the commodities markets. Eric Payne examines the current state of affairs and ponders the likely outcome.
Preserving fuel for the future
The market for Transport Management Systems (TMS) is currently very strong as more and more service providers are looking to implement TMS to help maintain margins and maximise profitability in the current environment of higher fuel prices and increasingl
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Gemma Carter examines one of the most populous countries in Africa.
The Gift of the Nile
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
In the aftermath of the failed Copenhagen environmental summit last December, the question of finding a secure, environmentally sustainable and economically viable source of energy to power the future remains unanswered. As a result, nuclear power has been thrust back into the limelight, could a nuclear future be the safest, cleanest and most cost-effective option? Laurie Cuthbert investigates