Solar panels a ‘requirement’ on all new EU buildings
Solar panels are set to become mandatory be on all Europe's new public, commercial buildings, and residential buildings buildings. The European Union wants to boost the rollout of solar energy while also rebuilding Europe’s solar manufacturing industry. As part of the EU's new strategy to dump imports of...
Promising advances in rocket propulsion offer a new era of spaceflight
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has recently commissioned three private companies, Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics, to develop nuclear fission thermal rockets for use in lunar orbit. Such a development, if flown, could usher in a new era of spaceflight. That said, it...
Did You Know Engineering – The hydrogen fuel cell was invented by a Victorian lawyer from Wales
Let us start, in the spirit of steampunk, by imagining a new and different past. One that is just a little different to that which we currently have. So welcome to the year 1867. The Victorian age is at its zenith and a new, powerful and monied middle...