Continued advances in precision engineering at the nanometer scale holds considerable potential for the biotechnology and life sciences markets.
Without the Empire to fund major engineering projects and large scale infrastructure, many of the skills and techniques involved in monumental buildings and complex technologies were forgotten and lost.
In both cases of new engines or biorefineries, there will be huge new engineering required on a scale that can only be guessed at if algae really can be exploited to make a nation the size of the United States independent of cheap imported crude oil.
Nanotechnology is a fast emerging science that concerns itself with the engineering of materials at the scale of individual atoms and molecules.
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How many other large scale feats of engineering can claim the same?
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The show piece reactor at Olkiluoto-3 in Finland is years behind schedule and has become a byword for engineering incompetence on a grand scale.
In an earlier report, the Royal Academy of Engineering had mapped out the scale of the task involved in moving to a low-carbon electricity supply - with a mix of energy efficiency, renewables, nuclear and clean coal.
Algae at least can be grown, with sufficient engineering, on a large scale that does not require prime crop land in competition with growing food crops (as rules out conventional biofuel strategies beyond grants from governments and the European Union), and there is no demand for freshwater since saline water does even better to promote the growth of certain highly oil-yielding strains.
It sounds great but I question the usual scale-up and engineering required to inaugurate a huge infrastructure based on biogas.
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So it should be no surprise that the UK is struggling to grow at more than a desperately anaemic rate: the scale of the required re-engineering for the British economy will be the work of many years.
Similarly, advances in chemistry, physics and mechanical engineering had produced weapons that made possible slaughter on a scale never before experienced.
Although the process is being tested on a small-scale right now, project lead and University of Warwick engineering professor Jan Baeyens is thinking big.
Working from a one-to-twenty scale polystyrene model, the designer worked closely with an engineering team, including two traditional stone-carvers, in making a vast, jagged construction that, bolted to the walls and secured by steel cables, interweaved gracefully in and out of the shop windows, and loomed above the pavement.
As ASSIA attempts to reach the scale needed to do an initial public offering, Cioffi is focusing his engineering team on developing management software for wireless networks.
"We were driven by the scale of the idea and a shared passion for the poetic dimension of engineering and its sculptural potential, " says Norman Foster in "Millau Viaduct, " a slim monograph on the bridge.
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