Masdar City, a development of the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar), is beginning to take shape. The innovative city-district shows a possible paradigm for future sustainable cities: compact groupings of highly efficient mid-rise buildings set amidst carefully planned green space, with on-site renewable power production and excellent transit connections.
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Reprogrammable photonic circuits based on a novel programmable material might speed the rate at which engineers can develop working photonic devices, researchers say. Electronic integrated circuits (ICs) are nowadays key to many technologies, but their light-based counterparts, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), may offer many advantages, such as lower energy consumption and faster
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There may be a ray of hope in the hydro power subsector if stakeholders, including the Federal Government, can put in place water storage facilities and good generators that will enable hydro plants work effectively. By so doing, the hydro power stations will be able to complement gas plants to
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released proposed rules for crowdfunding to foster economic development and to deepen the capital market. The rule obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Sunday showed that the required minimum paid-up capital for operating a crowdfunding portal was pegged at N100
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Microgrids are generally defined as geographically smaller electrical systems which can be connected to larger grids to operate interconnected but importantly can disconnect from the larger grid and operate in an isolated or “island” mode. Historically these have included smaller based loaded fossil fueled power generators to support operations when
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As the number of hospitalizations due to Covid-19 continues to rise across the U.S., addressing the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers has become increasingly urgent. Institutions and organizations across the country – including MIT – have been scrambling to collect and send unused face masks
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Just three months into 2020, the coronavirus (COVID-19) has arrested the world’s attention. Authorities have begun placing cities on lockdown and most importantly, people have been stocking up on items to aid their time in isolation. While the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic might put a lot of Nigerians under
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For more than a week, Linda Quinn, 81, has isolated herself inside her Bellevue, Wash., home to keep away from the coronavirus. Her only companion has been her goldendoodle, Lucy. To blunt the solitude, Ms. Quinn’s daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons wanted to hold video chats with her through Zoom, a
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A US proposal to tighten the screw on chip supplies to Huawei would be to control sales by foreign chip companies, reports Reuters. At the moment it is only a proposal, and President Trump has declined to implement the idea in the past but, with anti-China rancour growing in Washington, it
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Advances in soft robotics could someday allow robots to work alongside humans, helping them lift heavy objects or carrying them out of danger. As a step toward that future, Stanford researchers have developed a new kind of soft robot that, by borrowing features from traditional robotics, is safe while still retaining
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