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Shinroku Momose. was a Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer.
He is famous for the development of the Subaru 360, the Subaru Sambar and the Subaru 1000 series.

History 
 February 20, 1919 – Born in Shiojiri, Nagano Prefecture as the second son of a Sake brewer.
 April 1939 – Entered the Department of Aeronautics, Tokyo Imperial University (Majored in engine) 
 January 1942 – Joined Nakajima Aircraft Company. He was enlisted as an Ensign by the Imperial Japanese Navy twenty days after he joined Nakajima. He was attached to the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal ("Kugisho") and assigned to explore jet engine and gas turbine. 
 1944 – As a Naval officer, he was sent back to his home company Nakajima to examine the installation of turbocharger to the Nakajima Homare engine of the Nakajima C6N 
 August 15, 1945 – Around ten design staff including Momose remained at Koizumi Plant of Nakajima Aircraft Company. 
 1949 – Designed and launched the monocoque rear-engine bus Fuji TR014X-2.

 January 1951 –  Assigned to design the Subaru 1500 (project number "P-1").
 February 1954 – Initial model of the Subaru 1500 was completed. 

 December 1955 – Production of Subaru 1500 was cancelled and Momose was assigned to design the Subaru 360 at the same time. 
 November 1957 – Assigned as the senior engineering manager, Isesaki Plant, Fuji Heavy Industries 
 March 3, 1958 – Subaru 360 was launched. 

 October 1960 – Assigned as the senior engineering manager, Gunma Workshop (Ota City), Fuji Heavy Industries
 February 1961 – The first generation Subaru Sambar was launched. 

 October 21, 1965 – Subaru 1000 was shown to the press at the Tokyo Hilton Hotel (where The Beatles stayed in June and July 1966) 
 May 14, 1966 – Subaru 1000 was launched.

 October 1966 – Promoted to the engineering director, Fuji Heavy Industries
 May 1967 – Promoted to a board member of Fuji Heavy Industries
 August 1968 – Assigned as the executive officer of the Subaru Engineering Division
 June 1975 – Assigned as the executive officer of the Subaru Service Division
 June 1983 – Assigned as a statutory auditor, Fuji Heavy Industries
 1987 - Awarded to the Technology Contribution Prize by the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (JSAE) 
 June 1991 – Assigned as the technical advisor of the Subaru Research Laboratory
 January 21, 1997 – Deceased
 2004 – Inducted to the Japan Automotive Hall of Fame

See also
 Nakajima Aircraft Company
 Nakajima C6N
 Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal
 Fuji Heavy Industries
 Subaru 1500
 Subaru 360
 Subaru Sambar
 Subaru 1000

References
 Shinroku Momose History and Biography Japan Automotive Hall of Fame Official Website (Japanese)
 In the Mind of Subaru 1000 Development Engineers Source: “Subaru” magazine – Subaru 1000 extra edition (issued May 20, 1966) (Japanese)

1919 births
1997 deaths
Japanese aerospace engineers
Japanese automotive engineers
Subaru
Imperial Japanese Navy personnel of World War II
Imperial Japanese Navy officers
People from Nagano Prefecture
University of Tokyo alumni
Japanese business executives
Corporate executives in the automobile industry
Jonathan Lyle. Jonathan Henry Lyle CB (born February 1959) is a British engineer and former senior civil servant.  He served as chief executive of Dstl between March 2012 and September 2017.

Biography  
After an initial post with the Ministry of Defence in Portsdown he worked in the maritime sector in Bath. In 1989 Lyle moved to London and undertook a number of cost and investment studies for future aircraft systems.  He moved to the Office of Science and Technology at the Cabinet Office in 1991 and returned to defence procurement in 1996.

Lyle was promoted to the senior civil service in 2000 and appointed leader of the Future Offensive Air System Integrated Project Team (IPT).  He was then promoted in 2004 to lead the Defence Procurement Agency's aircraft, helicopter and weapons projects.  When the DPA was merged into the Defence Equipment and Support agency in 2007 Lyle was appointed Director General - Helicopters.

Lyle was also Director of the College of Management and Technology at the Defence Academy, Shrivenham during 2008 and 2009 and Head of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors between 2007 and 2011. His final post in Civil Service was as Chief Executive (DG), Dstl, between 2012-17.

Lyle was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2017 Birthday Honours.

See also
Dstl

References

Living people
1959 births
British civil servants
British marine engineers
Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Date of birth missing (living people)
People from Salisbury
Jasper Solar Energy Project. The Jasper Solar Energy Project (or Jasper PV Project) is a 96 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station, located 120 km west of Kimberley, in South Africa's Northern Cape. Construction of the project was completed in October 2014 and it is fully operational to power up to 80,000 homes.

Google has a recent history of investing in wind and solar power, and since 2010 has committed to more than US$1 billion in renewable energy projects worldwide. Until 2013 little of this was spent on renewable energy in Africa. A new $12 million investment in the Jasper power project, at a project cost of approximately ZAR2.3 billion ($260 million) signals a change in policy. It is one of the largest solar installations in Africa, comprising over 325,000 PV modules.

Background

Since 2008 South African households and industry endure rolling blackouts due to a severe lack of generating capacity. Only since then has the government been active in looking at new potential sources of electricity. These incentives led to South Africa having the highest growth in clean energy investment in the world in 2012. While it is dependent on fossil fuels, its generous resources of wind and sun have made it opportune to diversify and to set itself the goal of installing 18 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2030.

SolarReserve, a developer of large-scale solar energy projects, joined forces with the Kensani Group and Intikon Energy, two South African companies, to develop three photovoltaic (PV) solar energy projects in South Africa. This consortium was awarded preferred bidder status in May 2012 by the South Africa Department of Energy. SolarReserve is busy on two other 75 megawatt projects, Letsatsi and Lesedi. The consortium closed the $260-million contract with investments coming from Google, the government's Public Investment Corporation (PIC), the Development Bank of Southern Africa and the PEACE Humansrus Trust. SolarReserve appointed SgurrEnergy as technical advisor on the projects involving the Letsatsi PV plant at Soutdrif north of Bloemfontein and Lesedi PV plant at Humansrus east of Postmasburg.

See also

List of power stations in South Africa

References

Photovoltaic power stations in South Africa
Economy of the Northern Cape
LFG V 59. The LFG V 59 and the LFG V 61 were single engine, twin float passenger seaplanes designed and built in Germany in 1926 by the Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft. They differed only in their engines.

Design and development
The V 59 and V 61 were both twin float seaplanes, essentially identical apart from their engines and designed to carry four or five passengers. The V 59 was powered by a  BMW IV 6-cylinder water cooled inline and the V 61 by a much more powerful,  Bristol Jupiter 9-cylinder radial. They were metal aircraft both in frame and covering, low wing monoplanes of the semi-cantilever kind with external bracing between the upper fuselage and wing and further support from below via the flat topped floats. The wings were straight tapered with rounded tips.  The fuselage was flat sided and bottomed, with windows down the side and with a braced tailplane mounted on top of it.  The rudder extended well below the keel.

Operational history
Both the V 59 and the V 61 were entered into the German Seaplane Competition, held between 12–23 July 1926 with flights along the Baltic and North Sea coasts from Warnemünde. The V 59 did not score in the technical tests but the V 61 came sixth in them whilst not completing the whole course.

Variants
V 59  BMW IV 6-cylinder water cooled inline engine. Four passengers.
V 61  Bristol Jupiter 9-cylinder radial engine.  Estimated maximum speed . Five passengers.

Specifications (V 59)

References

Floatplanes
1920s German civil aircraft
LFG V 59
Kovio. Kovio, Inc. was a privately held Silicon Valley technology company headquartered in San Jose, California that manufactured electronic devices based on a proprietary printed silicon electronics platform.  Products included Near Field Communication (NFC) tags for use in mobile marketing, authentication, and advertising as well as electronic article surveillance (EAS) labels for anti-shoplifting applications. On January 21, 2014 Thin Film Electronics ASA acquired Kovio technology, intellectual property and production equipment.

History 

Kovio was founded in 2001 under the name Nanotectonica by affiliates of the MIT Media Lab, including Joe Jacobson, Colin Bulthaup, Brian Hubert, and Brent Ridley.

Kovio appeared at the 2007 IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA Conference, at which the company introduced the world’s first all-printed, high-performance silicon thin-film transistor with an electron mobility of 80cm2/Vs. Kovio was subsequently awarded the 2007 Technical Development Materials Award and 2008 New Product Development Award by industry analyst IDTechEx. On January 21, 2014 Thin Film Electronics ASA acquired Kovio technology and production equipment.

Memberships and partnerships 

In February 2010, Kovio and Nissan Chemical Industries announced a collaboration and development partnership to scale Kovio’s silicon ink to commercial volumes, and to introduce and commercialize such inks in display applications.

In November 2012, Kovio and Nedap Retail announced a new Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) label that can be integrated directly into clothing, shoes, and other products to discourage shoplifting. The product is sold by Nedap Retail under the ‘!FaST’ brand name.

In March 2013, Kovio announced a strategic partnership with Symphony Teleca to co-develop software services to bring big data analytics to NFC-based mobile marketing campaigns.

Kovio is a principal member of the NFC Forum.

Investors 

Kovio raised over US$100 million in its venture financing. Prominent investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, Tyco Retail Solutions, Harris & Harris Group, Flagship Venture Partners, Pangaea Ventures, and others.

References 

2001 establishments in California
Manufacturing companies based in San Jose, California
Companies established in 2001
Electronics companies of the United States
Privately held companies based in California
Finngulf LNG. Finngulf LNG was a liquefied natural gasterminal project in Ingå, Finland. It was an initiative by Finnish natural gas company Gasum. The project was on the list of projects submitted to be considered as potential EU projects of common interest in energy infrastructure.  One of the criteria for the EU aid is that the terminal must service more than one EU Member State. This means that another prerequisite was the proposed Balticconnector pipeline, which would connect Estonian and Finnish gas grids.

From the terminal, gas would be injected into the Finnish natural gas network or transported in the form of LNG for use as vessel fuel or for industrial uses. The terminal area would also include a large LNG storage tank.

An environmental impact assessment report for the terminal was completed in spring 2013.

A full-scale terminal could be completed in 2018. In December 2013, the project management services contract was awarded to Neste Jacobs.

In October 2015, Gasum abandoned the project due to commercial viability. In 2023, the Inkoo LNG terminal began operating.

See also

 Energy in Finland

References

Proposed liquefied natural gas terminals
Energy infrastructure in Finland
Natural gas in Finland
Cancelled energy infrastructure
Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering & Technology. Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering & Technology (VVIET) was started in the year 1997, as part of the mission of the Vidya Vikas Educational Trust.

Description 
VVIET is an engineering college recognized by the Government of Karnataka, and the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, affiliated to the Vishweswaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum, and governed by Vidya Vikas Educational Trust, which was opened by the famous Mysore Ex-Mayor Mr. Vasu, presently a Member of Legislative Assembly from Chamaraja Constituency, Mysore. Currently, the trust is monitored by one of his sons, Mr. Kaveesh Gowda V. Few of the famous celebrities are alumni of this college. Notable ones are Adarsh S (2013 CS pass out), who was a topper in those days is now Vice President of Citibank (USA). Another noted alumnus of VVIET is Dr.Safdar Hussain (2001 CS-First batch), completed his M.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad; Master of Science in Management from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Doctorate in Artificial Intelligence from Rennes School of Business, France; and is currently working as Chief Data & Analytics Officer for one of the Sovereign Wealth Funds in the UAE.

Academics programs
The Institution has six undergraduate programmes and two postgraduate programmes.

Undergraduate programmes

Postgraduate programmes

Other Institutions

Activities
Every year, annual college day is celebrated in the middle of the year; mostly during the months of April or May. Apart from this, many academic, co-academic and extra-academic activities are held throughout the year. A three-day state-level technical exhibition was also conducted in late 2012 in the Govt. of Karnataka - VVIET association. A state-level mathematics conference was also held at the camput in the end of May, 2013.

Campus
The entrance building is for concentrated undergraduate programmes which, at a furlong's distance, postgraduate disciplines are sheltered in a separate block, offset from main building. In the circumference, a hostel is also situated.
It has a freely spread open ground which acts as a stadium for cricket, football and concerts. Concerts for various college festivals are held in the same ground.

References

External links

 

Engineering colleges in Mysore
1997 establishments in Karnataka
Educational institutions established in 1997
Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles. The report Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles was the third of six scientific assessments on global metals to be published by the International Resource Panel (IRP) of the United Nations Environment Programme. The IRP provides independent scientific assessments and expert advice on a variety of areas, including:
 The volume of selected raw material reserves and how efficiently these resources are being used
 The lifecycle-long environmental impacts of products and services created and consumed around the globe
 options to meet human and economic needs with fewer or cleaner resources.

About the report

Metals and their compounds have been used for millennia because of their unique properties. They are used in highly valued products of modern technology, furthermore, they play an essential role in renewable energy technologies. After having analyzed issues of metal stocks in society and recycling rates and recycling conditions and opportunities in the previous two reports on metals, Metal Stocks in Society report and Recycling Rates of Metals report, the International Resource Panel decides to address the environmental and energy issues related to the use and the production of metals. In this report, an assessment is made of the literature on metal flows and cycles in nature and in society, the way they are connected, and the potential impact related to them. The four areas of focus are 1) Local impacts of mining, 2) life cycle energy use, 3) non-metal sources, and 4) the need for a final sink. Furthermore, the author points out that sustainable metals management cannot be defined in isolation, because a global issue like this is linked to many other issues at the global level: population and welfare increase, the concurrent expected rise in demand for food, water, and energy, the availability of metals and other non-renewable materials, the shift to a renewable energy system, dietary choices, etc. Therefore, it should be part of an overall effort to steer society towards a more sustainable development.

The production of different metals has different potentials to impact the environment. The report gives reasons why metals can become relatively more important from an environmental impact point of view. First of all, the demand for most metals is rising rapidly and this trend is expected to continue in the coming decades. Secondly, a shift towards a renewable energy system implies that the material, especially metal, intensity of energy production will increase substantially. Thirdly, in the future, the energy intensity of the production of metals is expected to increase due to the use of lesser grades of ores.

References

Environmental reports
United Nations Environment Programme
LEROS. LEROS is a family of chemical rocket engines manufactured by Nammo at Westcott, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. LEROS engines have been used as primary apogee engines for telecommunications satellites such as the Lockheed Martin A2100 as well as deep space missions such as Juno.

The family of engines derives from the LEROS 1 which was developed and qualified in the 1990s by Royal Ordnance. The in-space propulsion business was acquired by British Aerospace, then had a sequence of owners including American Pacific Corporation, Moog (from 2012) and Nammo (2017). The LEROS engines are made of niobium alloy, which is traditionally used for liquid rocket engines such as the attitude control thrusters of the Apollo Lunar Module. As of 2011, more than 70 LEROS 1 series engines had been flown successfully.

Uses 

LEROS engines have been used on a number of NASA and other space agency missions:

 NEAR Shoemaker (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous)
 Mars Global Surveyor
 MESSENGER
 Juno
 JCSAT-5A
 Sirius 4
 Nimiq 1
 SBIRS GEO 1 and GEO 2
 Intelsat 33e
 Beresheet lunar lander

There have been helium check valve problems on Juno leading to postponed maneuvers, and a failure after the first burn on Intelsat 33e requiring backup low-thrust jets to be used to bring the satellite to its intended orbit.

References 

Aylesbury Vale
Rocket engines of the United Kingdom
Science and technology in Buckinghamshire
Spacecraft propulsion
Rocket engines using hypergolic propellant
Rocket engines using the pressure-fed cycle
COMSA EMTE. COMSA EMTE was a Spanish construction and infrastructure engineering company specialising in road and rail transport infrastructure construction, electrical grid infrastructure, and general building construction.

History
The company was formed in July 2009 by a merger of Spanish construction Grupo COMSA and electrical infrastructure construction company Emte SA.

It was renamed to COMSA Corporación in 2015.

See also
Termosolar Borges

References

External links
Official website

Construction and civil engineering companies of Spain
2009 establishments in Spain
Companies based in Barcelona
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 2009
Spanish companies established in 2009
COMSA
John Gordon Fowler. John Gordon Fowler (September 6, 1905 – December 8, 1971) was a United States Air Force brigadier general who was a recipient of the Legion of Merit.

Biography

Early life
Fowler was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1905. In 1924 he graduated from Lake View High School in the same city, and four years later got a degree in engineering from Northwestern University. He entered Primary Flying School as a flying cadet at March Field, California and later on was transferred to the Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas, from which he graduated on June 22, 1929, and the same year became second lieutenant. In October of the same year he was a pilot at Selfridge Field, Michigan. Between 1930 and 1940 he was a flying instructor and pilot at more than one base of the United States and Hawaii. In July 1940 he entered into the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama from which he graduated in September of the same year and was given a task to command Second Bomb Group at Langley Field, Virginia.

World War II
When World War II began, he became an assistant chief of staff for the Anti-Submarine Command in New York City where he also became deputy chief of staff for the First Air Force at Mitchel Field, New York in October 1943. In June 1944 Fowler worked with the 20th Air Force at Colorado Springs, Colorado where he operated 314th Bomb Wing which was sent by him to Guam. In September 1945, he took command of the 20th Air Force Combat Staging Center at Iwo Jima and a month later he became commanding officer of the 315th Bomb Wing.

Postwar era
On July 1, 1946, he worked for the Japan Air Materiel Area Command as chief of administration. In August 1947 Fowler became an assistant commandant of the 2621st Base Unit at Barksdale Field, Louisiana and next year he took command of the 2518th Base Unit at Enid Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Later on, in October 1949, he moved to Randolph Field, Texas where he was in charge of the 3510th Pilot Training Wing and a year later, in August, entered into the National War College in Washington, D. C. He graduated from there in June and was stationed at Joint Subsidiary Plans Division as the Air Force member.

In March 1952, Fowler became a deputy to the assistant at the Air Force Headquarters and in April he was already an assistant deputy director and became a deputy director a couple of months later. He came back to Tokyo, Japan in September 1954, and worked at the Far East Air Forces Headquarters as a deputy for intelligence. From December 1954 to June 1955 he worked in Korea as a United Nations Command, Military Armistice Commissioner and on April 17, 1956, was assigned at the United Nations and Far East Command in Tokyo. He retired in May 1959 and died on December 8, 1971.

References

1905 births
1971 deaths
United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
United States Air Force generals
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
Military personnel from Chicago
United States Army Air Forces officers
Rowhedge Ironworks. Rowhedge Ironworks was a shipyard situated on the River Colne, and in the village of Rowhedge, in the English county of Essex. It existed from 1904 to 1964, and built a number of coastal vessels, including VIC type Clyde puffers and ferries for the Hythe Ferry in Southampton. The yard also specialised in building small craft for overseas buyers, often in kit form for assembly abroad, including vessels for use on Lake Titicaca and the River Nile.

The site of the yard is now occupied by a riverside housing development.

Vessels built 

In total, the Rowhedge Ironworks built some 900 vessels, including:
 
  (1936)
  (1938)
 Guide of Dunkirk (1940)
  (1941)
 Empire Lad (1941)
 Empire Homestead (1942)
 Empire Boxer (1943)
 VIC 76 (1945)
 VIC 77 (1945)
 VIC 78 (1945)
  (1946)
  (1956)

References

External links 
 

Defunct shipbuilding companies of England
Essex
Azzam Alwash. Azzam Alwash (1958; in Arabic: عزام علواش ʻAzām ʻAlwāš) is an Iraqi hydraulic engineer and environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2013, in particular for his efforts on restoring salt marshes in southern Iraq that had been destroyed during the Saddam Hussein regime.

Alwash left Iraq in 1978 at the age of 20 because he refused to join the ruling Ba'ath Party. Halfway through an engineering degree, Alwash moved to Los Angeles, California and continued his studies. Following the 2003 invasion, Alwash returned to Iraq and set up a non-profit, Nature Iraq, to focus on restoring the salt marshes of southern Iraq.

References 

1958 births
Living people
Iraqi engineers
Iraqi environmentalists
Iraqi refugees
Iraqi expatriates in the United States
Goldman Environmental Prize awardees