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NURSING HOMES
BY PHILIP FINE
NURSING homes in America’s south have seen their insurance liability rates pushed so high by "predatory" negligence claims and rise so high that many are being forced to take drastic measures.
Florida, a highly litigious and demographically older state, is now bereft of any state-residing insurers able to write long-term care liability insurance.…
FUEL ECONOMY
BY PHILIP FINE
TWO plans that would require American manufacturers to produce vehicles, notably vans and pick-up trucks, with significantly increased fuel economy are being debated on the US Senate floor.
Republican senators called for light trucks to average 36 miles per gallon by 2016.…
INSECT REPELLENT
BY MATTHEW BRACE
AN AUSTRALIAN company has made a breakthrough in developing insect-repellent clothing. In tests, cloth samples impregnated with a synthetic pyrethroid repellent killed most mosquitoes before they even touched the material.
Its manufacturing method applies the chemicals with the softeners onto the fabric and becomes part of the chemical finish on the treated textile.…
INDIAN LEATHER
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN government is planning to kick-start its shoe component leather industry, as part of a plan to boost the country’s share of the global leather trade to 10 per cent from its current level of around seven per cent.…
SOLAR POWER STATION
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
THE WORLD’S first large-scale conventional solar power station is to be built in the blisteringly hot Australian outback in a A$700 million (UK Pounds 270 million) project.
The station’s circular solar collector will measure 5km in diameter and the collecting tower will soar 1km into the sky.…
PORTABLE SOLAR PANEL
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A JAPANESE company has developed a portable solar cell set that can be carried in a container the size of an attache case and which the firm says is highly convenient for lighting construction or camping sites, for instance.…
SINGAPORE POWER
BY MARK ROWE
SINGAPORE Power is to build a power generation plant worth between Sing. $50 million and $150 million, (Pounds 20m – pounds 60m), near Melbourne in Australia’s Victoria state. The eventual capacity of the open cycle gas turbine peaking power station will range from 90 megawatts (MW) to 270 MW, although the exact final capacity has yet to be decided.…
OIL - DUNG
BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS in Alberta, Canada, have discovered a novel and potentially revolutionary way to simultaneously sanitise two environmental hazards common to all oil producing regions that are also home to extensive beef industries: hydrocarbon contaminated earth and cattle dung.…
NOISE DIRECTIVE
BY ALAN OSBORN
BINDING EU legislation to curb noise pollution – in particular the noise from rail, road and air traffic and building sites – is to be proposed within four years under an agreement reached by the European Parliament and EU government ministers regarding the proposed new noise directive.…
NOISE NETWORK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NETWORK of noise experts funded by the European Union’s fifth framework programme for research is drawing up a plan for future noise research, to support the preparation of a new European Commission directive on the assessment and management of environmental noise.…