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BY ALAN OSBORN
A LENGTHY row over European Union (EU) energy policy is shaping up following the publication in April of a detailed independent study sponsored by the European Commission of the electricity markets in six EU countries.

The study – Structure and Performance of Six European Wholesale Electricity Markets in 2003, 2004 and 2005 – was drawn up by the consultants London Economics in association with Global Energy Decisions and focuses on the electricity wholesale markets in Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and the UK excluding Northern Ireland.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN OLD-FASHIONED treatment for tuberculosis might be reintroduced now the disease has proved resistant to new-fashioned antibiotics. A British study has found that a single dose of vitamin D may be enough to boost the immune system to fight against tuberculosis.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
PLASTIC electronics – despite facing some logistical challenges – are likely to have significant implications for sustainable energy production through the development of organic solar cells, according to a leading researcher.

Dr John de Mello, lecturer in nanotechnology at Imperial College London told a Royal Society conference in London on nanotechnology’s impact on the environment, that plastics offered a “step-change” in sustainable energy production.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY may help textile manufacturers dramatically reduce their costs and overheads, according to a design expert speaking at a conference at the Royal Society in London. The precise measurements involved in using nanofibres and other nanotechnology means that manufacturers could both significantly reduce the bulk of raw materials they need but also produce bespoke products that are far more targeted than is presently the case.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY may be on the verge of enabling one of the UK’s most wasteful sectors – the fashion industry – dramatically improve its recycling record. A Royal Society conference on nanotechnology and the environment, held in London, was told that each year 1 million tonnes of textiles are thrown away each year in Britain, 80% being landfilled.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in Westminster
A SENIOR American nuclear industry advisor has told a global energy conference of his optimism that a “nuclear renaissance” is now possible in the US after 27 years in which no new reactors have been ordered.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY has huge implications for the oil and gas industry, according to leading scientists who attended a conference on the impact of this cutting edge science on the environment at the Royal Society in London. They stressed the technology offers the prospect of carbon emission reduction, resource use minimisation, hazardous chemical substitution, the chance to dramatically reduce fraud, and pollution reversal techniques.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY is opening the path to a new generation of monitoring systems for environmental and water based pollution, a Royal Society conference examining the growing influence of the emerging science on the environment was told.

The London conference, entitled ‘Nanotechnology – Products and Processes for Environmental Benefit’, heard that, while traditional biosensors worked well, they were relatively fragile and susceptible to degradation.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY has a range of significant implications for power generation, a series of leading UK and world experts have told a high-level conference at Britain’s Royal Society. From solar cells to battery storage and fuel cells, nanotechnology will change the way we produce energy, with some impacts already beginning to be rolled out and others expected to become mainstream and commercially viable within 10 years.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
As with many financial service providers in the EU, the definition of financial adviser differs, often significantly, from one country to another. In its very basic sense – i.e. the provision of financial advice pure and simple, without the add-on of other services that could involve the handling of client money – the profession of fee-paid advisor is a limited one and probably confined to only a few thousand people in Luxembourg, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.…