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Big London train station solar array project advances

The installation of 4 400 solar panels on the roof of the Blackfriars train station in central London reached the halfway mark in July, said British railway operator Network Rail.
 
 
REAL ECONOMY: PROPERTY & THE ECONOMY

Of double dips and new skyscrapers

If hemlines tell which way the stock market is headed, maybe city skylines do the same for the economy, in reverse. Tall stories often have unhappy endings. British Land, the UK’s second-largest real-estate investment trust, has revived plans...
19 Nov 10
 
 
Electrically Speaking - Terry Mackenzie-Hoy

Ode to a lesser power

Lord Lawson is a member of the British House of Lords, and he published a report on the economics of climate change last year.
05 May 06
 
 
TechTrack - Dr Kelvin Kemm

Sunspots under the spotlight

Sunspots are a regular feature of the surface of the sun.
24 Mar 06
 
 
Engineering & Manufacturing

Providing a solution to the Thames wastewater problem

Historically, wastewater from the Docklands development area in London, UK, had been discharged directly into the Thames River and tidal flow had been relied upon to disperse effluent.
 
 
Energy

Innovative technology portends well for oxygen-poor SA water

Environmental technology designed to re-oxygenate impounded water resources, being hailed as a major breakthrough in the UK and now in China, bodes well for the future environmental well-being of South Africa’s own oxygen-poor impounded...
 
 
Tourism

London is wheeling on to the millennium

Tech Track
12 Nov 99
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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