Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index cements Brexit damage
Dr Steve Mackay5 July, 2016
It's hard to ignore the effects the Brexit is having on engineering. The first physical marks the Brexit referendum has made on engineering has been shown by Markit, a company that covers global market trends. As the referendum's results were unveiled at the end of June, the construction Purchasing Managers'...Read More
Construction completed: China’s Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
Dr Steve Mackay5 July, 2016
Thirty football fields in size. 500 metres wide. A marvel of civil engineering. It's the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, also known as FAST, and the construction is complete. The final touches are happening and it will be fully operational in September. The Xinhua News confirmed that the final 4,4450 panels...Read More
Who’s afraid of the big bad robot?
Dr Steve Mackay4 July, 2016
Some jobs are just not going to come back. Those were the words spoken by Barack Obama at a recent town hall meeting when talking about how automation is changing employment in the United States of America. Recently, we reported, that Germany had pulled ahead of the U.S. when it...Read More
First thin-film solar powered vehicles ready to ride
Dr Steve Mackay4 July, 2016
Making the switch to renewable energy is slowly becoming easier and easier in a world that desperately desires progress in clean energy markets. Energy consumers want more control. Car manufacturers noticed this and companies like Tesla, BMW, Nissan and more, saw the gap in the market. Car manufacturers want to...Read More
First thin-film solar powered vehicles ready to ride
Dr Steve Mackay4 July, 2016
Making the switch to renewable energy is slowly becoming easier and easier in a world that desperately desires progress in clean energy markets. Energy consumers want more control. Car manufacturers noticed this and companies like Tesla, BMW, Nissan and more, saw the gap in the market. Car manufacturers want to...Read More
Energy Storage Wars: Formula E battery packs are dark horse of energy storage units
Dr Steve Mackay4 July, 2016
Formula E is an auto-racing competition that uses only electric-powered cars. The battery packs inside the vehicles are developed by Williams Advanced Engineering that is housed inside a body shell named the Spark-Renault SRT 01E. The car goes 0 to 60 MPH in 3 seconds and can reach a maximum speed...Read More
Energy Storage Wars: Formula E battery packs are dark horse of energy storage units
Dr Steve Mackay4 July, 2016
Formula E is an auto-racing competition that uses only electric-powered cars. The battery packs inside the vehicles are developed by Williams Advanced Engineering that is housed inside a body shell named the Spark-Renault SRT 01E. The car goes 0 to 60 MPH in 3 seconds and can reach a maximum speed...Read More
Homes of the future see passive solar design push
Dr Steve Mackay1 July, 2016
As renewable technologies make their way into our lives, we wonder how we will integrate the newly available technologies with our older technology that we still use to power our homes, our electronics and much more. Ir's hard to imagine calling some sort of firm and asking them to strip...Read More
Homes of the future see passive solar design push
Dr Steve Mackay1 July, 2016
As renewable technologies make their way into our lives, we wonder how we will integrate the newly available technologies with our older technology that we still use to power our homes, our electronics and much more. Ir's hard to imagine calling some sort of firm and asking them to strip...Read More
Tesla’s self-driving technology causes fatal crash
Dr Steve Mackay1 July, 2016
Is it back to the drawing board for the engineers of Tesla? The company's self-driving technology has claimed its first victim. Tesla driver Joshua Brown, 40, has died in an accident caused by the self-driving technology inside the Model S. The car's self-driving technology was reportedly unable to recognise a...Read More