Archived News for Engineering Professionals - April, 2016
Taxpayers’ funds will be used to pay entitlements to Queensland Nickel workers.
Tech money brings batteries home
Nanostructured, gel-based batteries could soon be made on a commercial scale.
Little solar town getting started
Perth’s newest village - White Gum Valley - will soon generate and sell its own electricity from a precinct of solar homes.
Palmer's plays laid bare
Administrators say Clive Palmer’s Queensland Nickel made “significant” uncommercial transactions for the benefit of its directors before it collapsed.
WA minister in road trade probe
The WA Transport Minister could be dragged into an ASIC investigation of suspicious share trading.
Airport contractors say money missing
Sub-contractors who worked on expanding the Perth Airport say they have been left short by the problem-plagued project.
Chip-scale light control coming
Australian engineers have created a new chip for the manipulation of light on the nano scale.
Drone ships and robo-trucks tested
The US military has experimented with its new self-driving warship.
Ethics issues at cutting-edge
The ethical debate about human genetic engineering has increased in pitch, with the publication of a new human embryo–editing paper.
Gas talk planned on inactive backdrop
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is making a big speech on resources and LNG today.
Key cable could be back by June
Executives have reassured Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman that the Basslink power cable will be repaired in June.
Moby Dick's head checked
Biologists say an unlikely event from literary history could actually have happened.
New cells spell regenerative step
Australian researchers have demonstrated an exciting new way to regenerate human tissue with stem cells.
Beetle brains invaded for tech ideas
Engineers have taken over the mind of beetle and made it move to their will.
Doctors want brown coal stopped
Hundreds of doctors and medical professionals are calling on the Victorian government to retire the Latrobe Valley's brown coal power plants because of the health concerns.
Grass condoms key to new industry
Academics and aboriginal rangers have come together near the Queensland-Northern Territory border to farm native spinifex grass for the world's strongest, thinnest condoms.
Green groups burn gas expansion
The WA Conservation Council has launched Frack Free Future - new anti-fracking campaign to press the issue ahead of next year's state election.
Queensland clears way for coal giant
Queensland’s Palaszczuk government has granted the final major approval for the controversial Carmichael coal project in Central Queensland.
Road money going the wrong way
Governments tend to shower new roads, railway and other infrastructure on marginal electorates, but a new report says this pork-barrelling is creating a major drag.