• King coal, III: DOE makes case for FutureGen restructuring

    The Department of Energy restructures its approach to FutureGen — the ambitious plan to develop clean coal technology which produces hydrogen and electricity and mitigates greenhouse gas emissions

  • No barriers to purchasing deadly chlorine

    A 2007 UN report found that at least ten mass-casualty suicide attacks in Iraq involved explosives attached to chlorine canisters; undercover operation shows the ease with which terrorists can buy large quantities of chlorine in the United States

  • Large mining concerns buys Verint solution

    A major Latin American mining conglomerate buys a critical infrastructure monitoring solution from Verint; solution will enable security personnel to react more quickly to security breaches, unauthorized personnel or vehicles, or suspicious activity across their expansive mining infrastructure

  • King coal, II: Administration restructures approach to clean coal funding

    DOE restructures FutureGen approach; under the new plan, DOE’s investment would provide funding for no more than the carbon capture and storage (CCS) component of the power plant — not the entire plant construction; the original 2003 FutureGen concept called for the federal government to cover 74 percent of the cost of the entire project; DOE requests $648 million in FY2009 budget for coal research, development, and deployment

  • Delta Scientific shows new truck barrier solution

    As risk of suicide bombers driving explosive-laden trucks increase, interest in systems to stop such truck from reaching their target increases; Delta Scientific shows a new solution

  • World’s first commercial-scale tidal stream

    The tidal farm scheme would be capable of generating 10.5 MW of power drawn entirely from the sea’s major tidal currents; project will be built off the north-west coast of Anglesey, north Wales

  • King coal, I: U.S. ends FutureGen funding; clean coal future unclear

    The Bush administration, as part of a new approach to producing clean cole, has ended government participation in the FutureGen project; government says that the private sector can now pick up the tab; the administration unfolds new clean cole initiatives

  • Life of U.K. project aiming to halve cost solar panels extended

    U.K. government agency injects £6 million into research aiming to halve the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells; in the first four years of the project, scientists created platform technologies in crystalline silicon, thin film silicon, thin film cadmium telluride, and thin film copper indium diselenide; now they will narrow down the research

  • Airport security challenges // by Lynn Welch

    TSA needs to formulate – and enforce — standards for perimeter defense

  • Leading companies form an anti-malware testing coalition

    The increasing mismatch between what anti-malware technologies actually do, and the testing methodologies used to evaluate them, lead forty major companies in the field to form a new organization dedicated to promulgating universally adopted standards and guidelines for anti-malware testings

  • Spain to explore oil reserves on its east coast

    Spanish oil company signs up a leading Norwegian engineering company to do infrastructure work for to oil exploration projects off the east coast of Spain

  • North Sea oil rig evacuated after bomb alarm

    More than 500 North Sea oil rig workers evacuated by helicopters after false alarm about an explosive device; bomb-disposal team dispatched

  • New vehicle "arrester" certified by TTI

    Critical infrastructure facilities, military bases, and government buildings need to be able to stop a car or a truck laden with explosives driving toward them at a great rate of speed; cement barriers and embedded vertical bar installations interfere with routine traffic and spoil the landscape; a Pennsylvania company offers a solution: A retractable net placed underground which, at the flick of a button, springs to catch, cradle, and arrest an oncoming vehicle, safely bringing it to a controlled stop

  • NIST launches Web site to validated software security tools for federal IT

    In recent years, the U.S. government has increased the security requirements for federal information systems; to make it easier for IT staff at federal agencies to maintain their systems’ security, NIST, DOD, DHS, and the MITRE Corporation recently introduced a technical framework called the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP)

  • Innovative fan design wins Live Edge Electronic Design award

    Ceiling fan combines an electronically commutated motor and controller, and an aerodynamically efficient blade design that reduces fan input power by up to 66 percent of that of a traditional ceiling fan