7 Ambitious Hydroelectric Power Projects
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2013
Hydropower has been used since ancient times to grind flour, pump water and irrigate fields and perform other tasks. With the discovery of e...
Showing posts with the label Engineering
Singapore’s Vertical Farms
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2013
Land is a luxury that Singaporeans cannot afford. An island country of only 710 square km is already home to 5 million people. No wonder, Si...
Tower of Wind in Tokyo
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2013
Located just to the southeast of Tokyo's Haneda airport, in the middle of the ocean, is a rather interesting structure. Referred to as t...
Rozenburg Wind Wall
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 25, 2013
Rozenburg is a small port town and former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. After the second World ...
SMART Tunnel in Kuala Lumpur: A Storm Water Tunnel With Built-in Motorway
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2013
Malaysia’s capital of Kuala Lumpur is regularly subjected to flash floods after heavy rains that remain for three to six hours, flooding the...
Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2013
Hydroelectric power stations are typically located near water sources, or on the source itself, such as dams on rivers. But Taum Sauk Hydroe...
Bailong Elevator: An Elevator Built Into the Side of a Mountain
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2013
Have you ever taken an elevator ride to the top of a mountain? No? Then you haven’t been to Wulingyuan in Zhangjiajie, China, because if you...
Sea Launch: Launching Satellites From the Ocean
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 26, 2013
The two giant ships, a NASA-like mission control and a launch pad floating on the ocean, form part of an audacious, outrageously expensive, ...
The Largest And Most Powerful Diesel Engine in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2013
Container ships are some of the largest and heaviest vessels that plough on the seas. They measure up to 1,200 feet in length and can move 1...
German Oil Recovery Ship That Splits Into Two
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 20, 2013
The German Navy operates a ship of an interesting design, engineered to recover oil spilled into the sea. The Bottsand-class oil recovery s...
Atomic Gardening: Breeding Plants With Gamma Radiation
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 20, 2013
Did you know that the peppermint flavor in your chewing gum and toothpaste, and the red-ruby grapefruit on your plate, is the result of muta...
Troll-A Platform: Largest Object Ever Moved by Man
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 12, 2013
The Troll A platform is an offshore natural gas platform in the Troll gas field off the west coast of Norway. At 1.2 million ton ballasted u...
Tianjin Eye: Gigantic Ferris Wheel on a Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 12, 2013
Tianjin Eye is a 120-meter tall giant Ferris wheel built on the Yongle Bridge over the Hai River in Tianjin, China. It is claimed to be the ...
Robotic Bicycle Parking Tower in Czech Republic
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 12, 2013
Remember Volkswagen’s car parking towers in Germany? Recently, a Czech bicycle importer installed a similar automated parking tower for bic...
CMA CGM Marco Polo: The World’s Largest Container Ship
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2012
The world’s largest container ship, the CMA CGM Marco Polo, is on a Trans-Pacific visit to Europe. Aboard the ship are 4,000 containers carr...
Inside Google’s Data Centers
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2012
Google has just launched a new site that offers visitors a glimpse into the massive data centers that power Google. The site features photo...
Stunning Photos of Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Flight Deck (Cockpit)
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2012
These rare photos by Ben Cooper capture the Flight Deck (cockpit) of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, fully powered for one of the final times. ...
RP FLIP, the Strangest Ship in the World
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2012
The U.S. Office of Naval Research owns a very strange piece of oceanographic equipment. It’s called the FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP),...
Russia to Open Space Hotel by 2016
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2011
A Russian company by the name of Orbital Technologies plans to build the world's first space hotel as a commercial alternative to the I...
Spectacular Pictures of Laser Guide Star System
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2011
Imaging stars and other heavenly bodies from earth based telescope is difficult because of the atmosphere that envelops the earth. The atmos...
