Feed Editor Lite 14 Oct 2008 15:26:53 GMT http://www.multibriefs.com/briefs/afe en Wave energy is crashing into some powerful barriers. The technology promises to convert the motion of ocean waves into electricity, potentially unlocking a massive source of clean power to rival wind or solar, without the unpredictability of weather. Backers say ocean power, which uses buoys or other devices to generate energy, will be competitive with other renewable resources in 10 years. 16 Jun 2009 13:56:14 GMT http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090609-711916.html B087971F-454E-49FB-BA3C-9229DCB50723 Managing water use is becoming increasingly important to commercial property owners, contractors, architects and engineers, and more than half say that water efficiency is an extremely important aspect of green building design, construction and related products, according to a recent survey by McGraw-Hill Construction. 16 Jun 2009 13:56:14 GMT http://www.greenerbuildings.com/news/2009/06/04/water-efficiency DFC62DD0-DAC3-4AE9-BAAF-5C6273DFC824 The Association for Facilities Engineering (AFE) is pleased to announce the upcoming relaunch of its Facilities Engineering Journal beginning with the July/August issue. The May/June issue will not be published while the new design and fresh approach to editorial and content is being finalized. Published six times a year, the Journal features timely and relevant technical information geared toward readers who are in charge of designing, operating, maintaining and securing the facilities infrastructure and environment. The new design will be distributed both in print and electronically, allowing the Journal to reach a wider, more diverse audience of facilities professionals. 16 Jun 2009 13:56:13 GMT http://www.afe.org/publications/journal.cfm 22799C39-28D6-4F1A-B256-0DEB1802BC91 Xunlight, a startup in Toledo, Ohio, has developed a way to make large, flexible solar panels. It has developed a roll-to-roll manufacturing technique that forms thin-film amorphous silicon solar cells on thin sheets of stainless steel. Each solar module is about one meter wide and five and a half meters long. 16 Jun 2009 13:56:13 GMT http://mobile.technologyreview.com/business/22745/page1/ 2441716D-8FA5-4C2C-874B-F2CB3B9D69C3 AFE is proud to announce that it is now part of the federated vertical search portal scitopia.org, a collaboration of 22 leading science and technology societies providing a better way to help researchers quickly get to the quality content they need. AFE joins these society publishers and is now contributing content to a major online library of leading voices in science and technology disciplines. Scitopia.org searches the entire electronic libraries of each participating organization and provides relevant results, without the noise of other Internet search engines. More than three and a half million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 350 years of science and technology can be searched through the site. scitopia.org is powered by Deep Web Technologies' Explorit Research Accelerator federated search engine. For more information, visit www.scitopia.org or call AFE at (571) 203-7171. 16 Jun 2009 13:56:13 GMT http://www.scitopia.org/scitopia/ 3C7FD470-EF5A-4DA2-802C-11C141263F8B Renewable energy overtook fossil fuels in attracting investment for power generation for the first time last year, according to figures from the United Nations. Wind, solar, hydro and other clean technologies attracted US$140 billion in investment, compared with US$110 billion for gas and coal for electrical power generation, with more than a third of the investment destined for Europe. 16 Jun 2009 13:56:13 GMT http://www.smh.com.au/environment/energy-smart/china-india-go-with-wind-as-fossils-sink-20090604-bx8r.html 551CC20D-4EAC-4EAE-B872-6B374EB5B4B9 She may not walk like an Egyptian but Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid is going to try designing like one as she tackles her latest project, the Stone Towers development in Cairo. Incorporating ancient Egyptian stonework in a variety of patterns and textures, Hadid's design will feature alternating protrusions, recesses, and voids that will harness the region's intense sunlight to create intense displays of light and shadow. 16 Jun 2009 13:56:12 GMT http://www.interiordesign.net/article/CA6662185.html D0599DA3-317E-432A-A32A-0DA56EC879A1