Upgrades include overall expansion and a new sand filtration process, along with a new laboratory for water quality testing.

I have a considerable power of patronage as someone who can commission reports, Ed confides to his diary. It seems HMG sends about a billion and a half a year on consultants, some of them getting £1000 a day. Now public service is a precarious trade and it won’t last forever and probably not for …

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DRAM contract prices rose 20% in October, reports DRAMeXchange, as the Big Three vendors opt for profitability over market share. Samsung, Hynix and Micron are “turning away from aggressively competing for market share through price reduction and capacity expansion,” says DRAMeChange’s Avril Wu as reported by Digitimes. The October price for 4GB DRAM modules was …

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The annoucement was made at WWEMA’s 108th Annual Meeting in Orlando Florida.

Desalination and Water Purification Research and Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Research applications are now being accepted.

I remember watching remote control aircraft flying near where I grew up. People (men) had made them from scratch, parts or kits, and then learned to fly them – a highly skilled operation. Then self-flying electric copter-style drones appeared, with gyros and intelligence, which essentially fly themselves and only need to be shown where you …

Read full article: Updated: Remote control aircraft – where did the skill go?

Amiho Technology has introduced its first radio module for IoT networks using the LoRa wide-area network (WAN) protocol standard. Operating at 868MHz and with a range to up to 15km, it can be used in sensing and monitoring devices as part of a wide-area IoT wireless networks. An application is likely to be smart metering. Measuring 17.8 x 20.3mm, …

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Pickering Electronics will demonstrate its two pole reed relays for high density designs at the Electronica exhibition in Munich next week (8 – 11 November). The series 115, 2 Form A relays can switch up to 15W, 1A and measuring 4mm x 10mm, the two-pole relay is only 50% larger than the single pole version. Two switch types …

Read full article: Electronica 2016: Pickering switches to 2-pole reed relays

Neil Oliver, technical marketing manager at battery supplier Accutronics asks the question, who owns and controls the worldwide battery market and where is it heading? The worldwide battery market was valued at $54bn in 2013 according to market research firm Avicenne Energy. The market is currently growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of …

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Racing team, Solar Team Great Britain has signed the Centre for Modelling & Simulation (CFMS) as a sponsor, which will give it access to a Cray CS400 cluster supercomputer. 2015 winning Cruiser, from Eindhoven university “We are delighted to support Solar Team Great Britain through the use of advanced modelling and simulation and high performance …

Read full article: UK solar car team gets access to supercomputer