Offshore breeze: offshore wind farms are finally becoming a reality
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The UK's first offshore wind turbine will open in spring 2000, some one kilometer off the east coast harbor of Blyth, Northumbria. But Britain's fledgling windpower industry says it is being restrained by lack of political will to invest in new projects and to ease the planning permission process, despite the promise that 10% of the UK's energy supplies will come from renewable sources by 2010. The world market for offshore wind turbine installations is forecast to be worth some 45 million pounds sterling by 2015.
Publication Name: Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-7782
Year: 2000
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Periscope
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The latest advancements in science and technology are discussed. These include the development of a variable-flow sprinkler that can help farmers avoid over-irrigation, University of Rochester Professor of optics Duncan Moore's creation of a borescope which can be used to examine areas that the naked eye cannot see and a new cool-process, zero-emission methanol fuel cell that can produce 50W of power for several weeks.
Publication Name: Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-7782
Year: 1998
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Design round-up
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Recent developments in industrial design are described. These include Vision Engineering's new Mantis family of inspection microscopes that provide diffraction limited resolution, Swiss telecommunications firm tangerine's use of appearance models to market products to distributors, Frazer-Nash Consultancy's External Pressure Sensor that eliminates the need for pressure gages and FBI's 2plus electronic bite alarm.
Publication Name: Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-7782
Year: 1997
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