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association [E)sEUsi(eIS&n] Verband

axis[(ÄksIs](pl.axes [(Äksi:z]) Achse

beverage [(bevErIdZ] Getränk

carbonated [(kA:bEneItId] kohlensäurehaltig

desalination plant Entsalzungsanlage

[di:)sÄlI(neIS&n plA:nt]

fizzy [(fIzi] sprudelnd

potable water [)pEUtEb&l (wO:tE] Trinkwasser

slush [slVS] (Schnee-)Matsch; hier: Flüs-

sigkeit voller Kristalle

spin sth. [spIn] etw. schleudern

vortex [(vO:teks] Wirbel(strom)

TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

Ideas and inventions

Very cool!

W

hat do you do when you need a cold drink — fast? Ask

Kelvin Hall, head of Enviro-Cool, in London. His V-Tex

technology makes drinks ice-cold in less than a minute.

Usually, when beveragesare cooled too quickly, some of the

liquid freezes into slush. This can be avoided by shaking the bot-

tle or can, but that makes carbonateddrinks spray everywhere.

V-Tex technology holds drinks next to a cold source, then

spinsthem to create a vortex. This motion prevents the drink

from getting too fizzy. A stop-start rotational sequence collapses and recreates the vortex, which

speeds up cooling. Rotating the liquid around two axesimproves cooling even further because

it interrupts the vortex without stopping the spinning. Hall and his team have also developed

the optimum speed for various types of beverage and drink container. Replacing the large, open

commercial coolers in shops could save up to 80 per cent of the energy costs, says Hall. Con-

sumer tests will begin in a supermarket in the Netherlands in October.

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Gibt es Neuigkeiten? CAROLSCHEUNEMANNpräsentiert technische

Innovationen und neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse.

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Spun, not shaken:

cold V-Tex drinks

In the news

30 years

Length of a study

that shows people

who eat nuts daily

have a 20 per cent

lower rate of death from chronic diseases.

Source: Dr Ying Bao in The New England Journal

of Medicine (www.nejm.com)

NEIL

“Never Ending Image Learner” is a computer pro-

gram that is teaching itself to recognize images.

Sources: Carnegie Mellon University, http://www.neil-kb.com

88 million

Litres of potable waterproduced per day

by a solar-powered desalination plantto

be built in the United Arab Emirates.

Source: Utico Middle East

(www.uticome.com/site)

Fresh water in the UAE:

I’ll drink to that

Did you know?

By mid-2014, India is expected to have more internet

users than the United States, which

now has about 245 million.

First place is held by China,

with more than 590 million

people online.

Source: Internet and Mobile Associationof

India (www.iamai.in)

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