Boscha’s Sun Binoculars
As reported the nation’s leading newspapers, Kompas. Indonesia Boscha observatory located in Lembang, Bandung, West Java now has a new facility in the form of sun glasses. Location Lembang cities in the tropics and enough to make a pretty good strategy to study the sun.
NASA already has a SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory), certainly not balanced when compared to existing solar telescope in the Boscha. However, due to the strategic location and close enough to the center of Bandung. This is very good facilities to attract people, especially students.
Looking ahead, the data from this solar telescope will be connected with live streaming on the ITB’s website and updated in real time. This data would be used for the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN).
Three Indonesian Students Achieve UNESCO Award
Three Indonesian students received achievement awards from the UNESCO Mondialogo Award and the German company Daimler AG that produces Mercedes-Benz luxury cars, in Stuttgart, Germany.
In addition to the three Indonesian engineering student achievement, Mondialogo Engineering Award is also given to 60 outstanding students from 28 countries, said Sosbud and PIPP Counselor Embassy to Berlin Agus Priono AFP correspondent of London, Thursday.
He said the award was divided into 30 projects are areas of development, poverty alleviation and the environment.
Third Indonesian student achievement is Benny from the University of Gadjah Mada (UGM) Yogyakarta with the Zero Waste Project Production System in Small / Medium Industrial Clusters the gold medal.
While Fengky Satria Yorestra from Andalas University Infrastructure project from the Tsunami Evacuation for Coastal Communities in West Sumatra Silver medal.
Bioethanol, Potential Future Energy
Bioethanol can be an option in reducing environmental damage as a side effect of the development of industry and transportation. There are several advantages possessed bioethanol fuel than gasoline, partly because the production process more environmentally friendly and involved planting vegetation that absorb carbondioxide in the atmosphere. In addition, the using of bioethanol as fuel for motor vehicles more environmental friendly because it produces less pollution.
Using of Detergent in Indonesia
For other cleaning materials, detergents is the yield of technological advances that make use of the chemical byproduct of petroleum distillation, combined with other chemicals such as phosphate, silicate, dye, and fragrance ingredients. around in the 1960s, the early generations detergent appeared using surface pengaktif chemicals (surfactants) Alkyl Benzene Sulfonat (ABS) is capable of producing foam. However, due to the difficult nature of ABS broken down by microorganisms in the soil surface, eventually replaced by Linear Alkyl compounds Sulfonat (LAS) are believed to be relatively more familiar with the environment.
In many countries in the world have banned the use of ABS and replaced with the LAS. While in Indonesia, the regulations concerning the prohibition of using ABS does not exist. Several reasons ABS is used in detergent products, such as low cost, stability in the form of cream / pasta and abundant foam.
Indonesian Student-Made Satellite Launch in The Year 2012
Mini satellite or nano satellite (made by students) is going to launch in Indonesia in the year 2012, because the discussion between students of UGM, ITB, ITS, UI, and PENS ITS and abroad Indonesian students has begun.
“Starting this year (2009), we conducted a series of meetings with students from various campuses,” said researchers from Indonesia in the TU Delft the Netherlands, Dedy HB Wicaksono, PhD., At Surabaya, Monday.
In between Workshops Inspire (Indonesian Satellite Platform Nano Initiative for Research & Education) in PENS ITS, he said the meeting would continue with an intensive research in the Netherlands or in Indonesia.
The Series of Earthquakes in Indonesia
Large-scale earthquake will knock down anything on earth that unsound and fragile. This phenomenon is not just demolish the building, but also makes landslides, broke, and ambles. Beyond that, an earthquake of the coast is also a potential cause tsunamis. That is a series of threats to the population in the earthquake-prone areas.
As long as the earth rotates, the movement of plates covering the earth and float on the magma will never stop. Between plates of collision or the crust is what causes earthquakes continue to occur after another all over the world.
When one location in the boundary layer of rocks collapsed due to the earth’s crust holding the pressure plate merapuh, rocks that would seek a new stable position. During this process will be a series of aftershocks, the main pascagempa. This can result in cracked buildings and fragile finally collapsed.
Robot Contest Winner from Indonesia
Unikom Robotics Team won gold in the contest Robo Games 2009, 12-14 June. Unikom sent two robots, namely V8 DU-114 and Next 116. Won the contest in the open category of autonomous fire fighting robot teams away from other countries.
One again, the nation who scent Indonesia. We are able to do for this nation. We should be proud, in the midst of uncertainty of identity, there are a fixed konsirten do for the nation.
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