22 AUG 2021 Lead-acid batteries have existed for over a century with little change. Advances have occurred in lead-acid battery technology to increase storage density, extend usable service life and improve cold weather performance at comparatively lower cost than modern battery technologies. As a result, derivatives of lead-acid battery technology …
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21 AUG 2021 Some 73 percent of people now believe that Earth’s climate is approaching abrupt and irreversible “tipping points” due to human activity, according to a global opinion poll released Tuesday. The survey, conducted before the publication of a bombshell UN climate science report last week, showed that more than half …
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20 AUG 2021 The search for carbon free ship propulsion includes adapting grid-scale batteries for maritime applications. Tech billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are providing funding to the Boston-based startup Form Energy, which is developing grid-scale iron-air battery technology projected to cost about one quarter the price of lithium …
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19 AUG 2021 We know that metabolism – the rate that we burn calories to keep our bodies running – changes as we age, but little is really known about the timeline of these changes. Now, a new study looking at metabolism across the generations has come up with some rather surprising …
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17 AUG 2021 The summer doldrums are here for oil supertankers. Freight rates on the benchmark route from the Middle East to Asia have slipped to their lowest levels since March, meaning lower earnings for those vessels, Baltic Exchange data show. At the same time, ship-fuel costs have jumped. “Weak …
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18 AUG 2021 Total of 275 ships were sold for scrap in the first half 2021 with the tanker sector leading the charge, according to a half-year demolition review by UK-based VesselsValue. The number represents a 40% and 33% increase compared to 2020 and 2019, respectively. The 275 scrapped vessels have a …
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16 AUG 2021 The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change‘s first major scientific assessment since 2014, released Monday, shows unequivocally that global warming is unfolding more quickly than feared and that humanity is almost entirely to blame. Here is a rundown of some of its key findings from the IPCC Working Group …
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15 AUG 2021 On August 7, Cochin Shipyard held a long-awaited keel laying ceremony for a pair of autonomous, all-electric ro/ro cargo vessels for Norwegian grocery distributor Asko. Cochin, the builder of India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier and many of its other naval vessels, is experienced in complex shipbuilding. By …
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14 AUG 2021 Attacks on information and communications technology infrastructure are becoming more common, as the recent spike in ransomware attacks affecting supply chains and the integrity of core information infrastructure has demonstrated. In fact, according to numerous reports, 2020 was a record-breaking year for cybercrime. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint …
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13 AUG 2021 Since the 1970s, sex-selective abortions in China, India, and ten other nations have caused between 23 and 45 million women to go ‘missing’. By 2030, a new study predicts those very same nations will ‘lose’ another 4.7 million female births, skewing their sex ratios even more. This study uses a model based on …
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