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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's revolutionary new space water recycling system is having serious hiccups. The $154 million device for turning astronauts' urine and sweat into drinking water aboard the international space station shut down again Friday ...
Read moreGlitch halts space station water cycle - Everett Herald
"We want to visualize the invisible, making people realize that there's a lot of energy out there that we're not using," said Zena Bruges from Jason Bruges Studio, which designed the tower. The designers chose the location next to Waterloo Bridge ...
Read moreTower of power lights up London - BBC Technology
British artists have set up a wind-powered tower in London's South Bank next to Waterloo Bridge, as part of a digital arts festival. The 15-meter Aeolian tower - meaning moved by the wind - is a steel structure, covered with 1200 tiny wind-powered ...
Read moreAeolian tower lights up London - Presstv
With final touches being put to its newest downtown tower, there'll be no battle for skyline bragging rights in London. That honour remains with One London Place, the 15-year-old glass and steel office tower built by Sifton Properties and standing ...
Read moreOne London Place remains city's tallest - The London Free Press
When you stand under the Burj Tower it doesn't look that tall at all. Bizarre. Alone on the flat desert landscape of Dubai, apart from the generic glitzy towers of the Sheikh Zayed Road, it seems slightly abstract, with nothing for your eye to ...
Read moreBurj Tower: the world's tallest cloud buster - Times Online
Apart from Sodom or Gomorrah, is there a city in human history with a worse reputation than Babylon?I can’t think of one. So deeply embedded in our assumptions is the squalor of Nebuchadnezzar’s capital, we can call a shoddy TV drama with lots of ...
Read moreBabylon: A tower of strength - Times Online
Spare a thought for Blanchard, North Dakota. Until recently it was the proud home of the tallest structure in the world, the KVLY/KTHI, 629-metre TV mast, built in 1963. Now that record belongs to the Burj Dubai, which currently stands at about 725 ...
Read moreThe last of the world’s super-towers? - Evening Standard
London will get its own public bicycle hire scheme so visitors and locals alike can pedal their way around the British capital. About 6000 bikes are expected to be available for hire from early 2010, with riders able to pick them up and drop them off ...
Read moreLondon to introduce 6000 public bicycles - Age
LONDON - Transport for London has invited companies to pitch for the contract to operate a cycle hire scheme in London. JCDecaux currently holds the contract to operate a cycle hire scheme in Paris, while Clear Channel holds the contract for a ...
Read moreTfL invites pitches for London cycle hire scheme - Brand Republic
London will get its own public bicycle hire scheme so visitors and locals alike can pedal their way around the British capital. About 6,000 bikes are expected to be available for hire from early 2010, with riders able to pick them up and drop them ...
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