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The DST (Department of Science and Technology) commissioned the Institute Meraka CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) to implement the National Initiative for Internet infrastructure composed of Sanren (South African National Research Network), the Center for High Performance Computing CHPC (Center for High Performance Computing) and the initiative for the Very Large Data Base Storage Initiative.
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An isolated incident causing mayhem
The disruption of air traffic last November 17 in North American skies, have forced thousands of travelers to rethink their plans, following an outage that began in Salt Lake City before spreading to the whole system of traffic control Air of the United States. The failure was located in a routing table and resulted in the failure of any system. Unable to route flights or communicate with airports, air traffic controllers were forced to recall techniques “old school” 80 years handling flights manually. The flights were delayed an average of two hours, when they simply have not been deleted.
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The experimental rocket texus-46 took off from Kiruva (Sweden) on board with an original experience. A group of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a test that would enable them to better understand the formation of nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion of kerosene.
Although present in less than the absolute amount of carbon dioxide, and especially much less publicized, NOx have more dramatic consequences for the environment and humans. They are created usually during the combustion of fuel in liquid form. In the case of land vehicles, just a catalyst to effectively reduce NOx emissions. This is unfortunately not possible in the turbine aircraft.
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Since a number of years, the aerospace industry working on new fuels that can replace kerosene, and thus making the airline independent of oil. A recent study by the German Center for Aerospace Research (DLR) demonstrated that the fuels of the future might even surpass kerosene for environmental and reliability.
One possible solution, the synthetic fuel Gas to Liquid (GTL ), has already been tested successfully in a commercial flight in October 2009 . In a cooperation between Shell, Rolls-Royce plc and Qatar Airways, a mixture of 50% kerosene and 50% GTL has been used as fuel.
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 According to newspaper Nikkei, the Japanese company IHI Corp. intends to market in 2015 a ferry which is powered by two electric motors. The vessel will be built by its subsidiary, IHI Marine United Inc.. It measures 30 meters long and can take on board 800 passengers. Its two engines each have a capacity of 400 kilowatts. They will be powered by batteries rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which can provide a total of 5,000 kWh. The autonomy of the ship will be about 120 km and will require 6 to 8 hours charge.
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