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UN’s report: Record amount of renewable energy capacity added in 2016
Largely due to rapidly falling costs of clean energy, global renewable energy capacity jumped 8% last year despite a 23% drop in investment Largely due to rapidly falling costs of clean energy, globa...
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Typhoon "Damrey" hits Vietnam, leaving at least 61 dead
"Damrey" made landfall at southern Vietnam on Saturday, November 4, with winds of up to 90 km/h, killing at least 61 people and leaving another 28 missing. "Damrey" made landfall at southern Vietnam...
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The solar-dome desalination system
Since desalination projects require enormous amounts of energy, researchers are working on alternative solutions Since desalination projects require enormous amounts of energy, researchers are workin...
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Scientists determine source of world’s largest mud eruption (video)
More than 11 years after the Lusi mud volcano first erupted on the Indonesian island of Java, researchers have probably figured out why the mudflows haven't stopped: deep underground, Lusi is connecte...
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40 years after Kelly Barnes dam failure
On this day in 1977, a small embankment dam located above Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia failed, releasing a wall of water that killed 39 people. This dam failure along with several others in t...
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The October Issue of TheStructuralEngineer.info Newsletter has been released!
TheStructuralEngineer.info is excited to announce the October Newsletter Issue#115 TheStructuralEngineer.info is excited to announce the October Newsletter Issue#115 Read more
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Hamburg’s unique Concert Hall was designed by an algorithm
Its construction took 7 more years than originally planned and cost 10 times the initial budget, but it was worth it. Elbphilharmonie – Hamburg’s new concert hall that opened last January, is an archi...
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India uses coal tax money to fund renewable energy projects
Renewables have been the largest beneficiary of the coal tax revenue collected in India over the last seven years Renewables have been the largest beneficiary of the coal tax revenue collected in Ind...
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Plastic pollution: This has to stop
We are using enormous quantities of single use plastics, with many of them ending up in the ocean We are using enormous quantities of single use plastics, with many of them ending up in the oceanA ph...
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Fifty simulations show how a magnitude 9.0 Cascadia earthquake could play out
A University of Washington research project simulates 50 ways a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone could shake out in the northwest of the United States. A University of Washing...
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