Engineers at University of California, Riverside have developed a new carbon nanotube-based heating element that improves the recovery of water from brine in membrane distillation.
EPA postpones Steam Electric Power Plant Effluent Guidelines Rule
Agency proposes to postpone the compliance dates for the more stringent best available technology economically achievable requirements in the 2015 rule for several waste streams.
Government approves investments in wastewater services across Canada
Improvements, upgrades and expansion projects across the country part of $180B investment.
GE Water brings out flexible RO system
GE Water has introduced a new reverse osmosis (RO) system, PROflex, building on its 1000 PRO Series RO system launched more than 10 years ago.
Santa Barbara Desal Plant now operating in city’s water system
Plant is now distributing desalinated water into the City’s water system utilizing IDE’s reverse osmosis technology.
NJ water utility makes $10M water infrastructure investment
Middlesex Water Company announces funding for upgrades to water infrastructure in South Plainfield, NJ.
Microchip adds high-quality graphics processing to PIC32
Microchip has added a high-resolution 2D graphics controller and 32Mbyte of SDRAM to its 32bit PIC32 microcontroller range. It is aimed developers of embedded products wanting high-quality images and animations on displays up to 12inch. Up to 24bit colour is available in multiple input and output formats – with a global colour palette look-up table …
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Driverless car security in a safety-critical world
Operating self-driving cars in a single software environment exposes all software to any cyber attack surface. A more sensible solution is to use a hypervisor to host multiple virtual machines on one processor, writes Chris Barlow The security of automotive systems goes hand-in-hand with functional safety gas defined in ISO 26262. But cybersecurity presents a …
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Driverless car security in a safety-critical world
Operating self-driving cars in a single software environment exposes all software to any cyber attack surface. A more sensible solution is to use a hypervisor to host multiple virtual machines on one processor, writes Chris Barlow The security of automotive systems goes hand-in-hand with functional safety gas defined in ISO 26262. But cybersecurity presents a …
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Switch bounce, and the lack of it
A reward for much remedial gardening activity was an hour or two of workshop time, attempting to work out personal ‘short push’ and ‘long push’ timings. The push button selected was a waterproof one from MEC in Denmark- as far as I can make out it is part of MEC’s 3C series (see photo of …
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