42 Technology has won an Innovate UK grant towards commercial development of a remote monitoring system for the UK’s network of electricity sub-stations

Read full article: Novel sub-station power monitor gets Innovate UK grant

When the California State Water Board adopted new regulations on seawater desalination plants in 2015, Poseidon, the developer of a proposed 50 million gallons a day (227,000 m3/d) capacity seawater RO plant in Huntington Beach, California, went back to the drawing board on its water intake technology.

Gradiant’s philosophy on technology is to take fundamental concepts and develop them into water technologies that speak directly to customers’ experiences in the field.

Utility Scottish Water has awarded Xylem a five-year framework services agreement to supply and install submersible and diesel pumps for all of its rental applications across the region…

The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa will host a demonstration project using Hitachi’s RemixWaterseawater desalination and water reuse integrated system…

Fifteen months into its course, the WAYTOGO FAST EU R&D project for promoting FD-SOI has achieved some significant targets the European Nanoelectronics Forum in Rome today was told. . Boosters for 14 and 28 FD-SOI have been investigated and developed . SOl wafers: +20% nFET loff/leff tradeoff . STRASS technique: +1.6GPa demonstrated (stress level > …

Read full article: NANO16: FD-SOI moves towards 22nm and 14nm

BBC TV programmes can be downloaded and viewed offline on your Raspberry Pi as high definition .MP4 files. For some time now there has been an open source utility program called get_iplayer which is a set of scripts that allow you to download BBC iPlayer content for offline viewing. Alex Eames from the RasPi.TV blog …

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Government plans for new investment in infrastructure and R&D in the Autumn Statement, will be good for the engineering and technology sectors, says the Royal Academy of Engineering. This follows the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s commitment of £2bn per year by 2020 for research and development funding and £1bn for digital infrastructure. Professor Dame Ann Dowling, President of the Royal Academy …

Read full article: Autumn Statement: Match tech investment with skills, says RAE

Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond outlined in the Autumn Statement the creation of an National Productivity Investment Fund to invest in the nationals digital infrastructure. But it will also see £100m invested in the development of infrastructure for autonomous vehicles, the much talked about ‘driverless cars’. The Chancellor ear-marked £390m for transport technology, including £80m for charging infrastructure for electric vehicles …

Read full article: Autumn Statement: Chancellor bets on driverless car tech

That awful sight of the SUV swaying as it careers towards you with the driver chatting on the phone, or of cars weaving across lanes as the drivers compose text messages could be a thing of the past as US regulators start to get involved. If they do, laws may follow and, if laws follow …

Read full article: Stopping The Motorist Texters And Chatterers