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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

NUT Live Cam is EarthCam Top 10!

Wow! A few weeks ago I submitted NUT live cam web site (managed by Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory NUT) to EarthCam. And just today, I received an email...

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The Top 10 Cams are chosen each week by EarthCam based on quality of image, uniqueness of content and overall technical achievements in webcam technology.

We encourage you to add an official "Top 10 Cams" award tile (or a text link that fits the style
of your site) to your website so your visitors can appreciate this award you have received and see your camera in the context of the winners list. You can access your award tile here

Go to see the complete list of winners.

Please review your description... if you would like more information about your webcam included on the site, please send us an email.

Congratulations!
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FYI, please note that, I submitted NUT Live Cam to promote NUT and not in any way to inform them that I am the owner of NUT live cam site.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Be 'GREEN', check-out this 'bolt-on' Hybrid System!


Owning a non-hybrid vehicle, but somehow interested to get hold of a hybrid with the desire to be 'Green'. Well, now that is possible!

Connaught, a small-scale auto manufacturer based in the UK has developed a 'bolt-on' Hybrid System. This auxiliary 'mild hybrid system', known as Hibrid+, has been tested on Tesco's Ford Transit Cargo Vans.


Connaught Chief Designer, Geoff Matthews expects a reduction in fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of between 15 and 20%—and possibly 25%—depending on the cycle, traffic conditions, and driver. Servicing of the Hybrid+ system is required every 30,000 mi (48,000 km).

Read More Here

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Real time Monitoring of nanoGrays. 柏崎刈羽原子力発電所/リアルタ

Please click this link for the realtime info.
I hope the monitoring works well enough to tell the real story!
FYI: The standard unit of radiation dose rate used in environmental monitoring is nGy/h (nanograys per hour). One gray is the absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, corresponding to one joule per kilogram - one nanogray is one billionth of a gray. (source:jaea)

'KANBAN', a JIT philosophy

The problems of Inventory control (Piston Rings) has been revealed after the ChuetsuOkiJishin last monday.
Read more about this here
Anyway, if you have already noticed, there is a book in our lab entitled 'THE TOYOTA WAY'. Please find the book on the rack just behind Ishihara san's desk. Some details on Kanban is available in the book, you can start with page 23.

SUV airbags

A few blogs back, I wrote an article on SUV (4WD) accidents.
Recently, there is an interesting development on Airbags for SUV.
FYI, the fatality risk for pedestrian is 2.5 X higher in SUV impacts than other regular cars and most regular cars that are in collision with SUV also suffers. As for that, a special airbags for SUV are being put to test. These are 'New Front Edge Airbag' and 'Bumper Airbag'. These are very special and not the normally known type of airbags. Please check here for full story.

About Me

I hold a BSc (Physics) & Computer (w. Ed), MSc IT, D. Eng (Inf. Science & Control Engineering). I am also a PRINCE2 Project Management Certified Practitioner. Main interest is in Project Management & Technopreneurship Research.