Osteoporosis Threaten In Asia

Osteoporosis is a disease of bone that leads to an increased risk of fracture. In osteoporosis the bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced, bone microarchitecture is disrupted, and the amount and variety of proteins in bone is altered.

The next time osteoporosis will be make serious disease for inhabitant in Asia. On the year 2050 estimated 50 percent from osteoporosis cases in the world will be afoot in Asia, and will be economic and social burdensome for society and government.

International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), The Asian Audit Epidemiology, Cost and Burden Osteoporosis in Asia 2009, over 14 country in Asia that incident bone broken improved 2-3 fold in 30 early year. This cases happened because low consumption vitamine D and calcium.

Regional Managing Director Asia-Middle East Fonterra, Mark Wilson says IOF nearly same with inspection result bone health Anlene, that every country in asia findings around 40 percent examined riskiness osteoporosis disease, and findings vitamine C and calcium low consumption. WHO recommended calcium consumption 1000-1300 milligram/day but average in asia only 450 milligram/day.

Judy Stenmark from IOF says this data can be notable by government, professional health, and public that immediately for increased protective bone broken. Around one million will be suffering if not action with serious. Capable of proof osteoporosis disease seen in Hongkong, in the 40 latest years bone fracture patient up to 300 percent while 500 percent in Singapore. In Japan patient bone fracture on the age 75 increasing drastic in 12 latest years, in China 70 million people with age 50 years suffering osteoporosis disease.

Cyrus Cooper, Chair International Osteoporosis Foundation of Scientific Advisors says the government must be aid to people for fill up needs vitamine C and calcium especially poor people.

Preventif Key
In asia and all the world around 20 percent dead attributable bone fracture, osteoporosis. The actual this disease simple for prevention. The prevention program with watchfulness health bone since juvenility.

The best time for health bone is since juvenility, with for life sport, nutrition be sufficient, calcium be sufficient, and sunshiny on the morning be sufficient for vitamine D production in body, all this can be amplify for bone.

Joanne Todd, Health Platform Manager Fonterra said consciousness on threat osteoporosis disease in Asia is very important be pressed on prevention.

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The World Bank Invest to North African Solar Power

The World Bank will invest $5.5 billion for North African solar power projects. They have announced that initially World Bank will put in $750 million dollars from the Clean Technology Fund with the remaining amount will be arranged from other sources. World Bank is expecting to complete these projects by 2015. They are willing to include five countries in this project and hoping to triple world wide concentrated solar power technology (CSP) capacity. This relatively new technology uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto a single point, heating water to drive turbines. Construction of the 11 facilities in the project is scheduled to begin in 2011. It is expected that the North African project will generate a total of 900 MW in capacity by 2020.

The project will save 1.7 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. That will be equal to taking 600,000 cars off the road. It is estimated that 10,000 jobs may be created by this project. This project will include Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia. It will provide energy to countries in the area as well as to Europe. Europe will act as the nerve center of the production jobs. U.K. is willing to invest 56 million pounds or $91 million USD in this project. Gareth Thomas is the International Development Minister. He shares his opinion, “Large-scale solar projects such as this have the potential to power the globe in the coming decades, offering us a route away from fossil fuels and limiting the potentially devastating impacts of climate change. Global financial support for renewable energy is absolutely vital if we are to meet the international emissions targets we are pushing for at Copenhagen.”

In terms of generating electricity it might not make a big impact, the project could change the economics and the quality of life for many in the region. It goes without saying that the solar project will give the necessary boost to the market for a growing solar infrastructure. The PR material claims “accelerate cost reduction for a technology that could become least-cost globally.”

The most important beneficiaries of the CSP project will be the citizens of North Africa. They will be able to use clean and green energy to power their homes. But a portion of this energy will be up for sale too. The energy can be exported to the nearby markets of Europe.

Shamshad Akhtar is the World Bank Regional Vice President of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). He explains about the project, “This is a most strategic and significant initiative for MENA countries. The initiative would leverage energy diversification, while promoting Euro-Mediterranean integration to the benefit of MENA countries that will be able to exploit one of the major untapped sources of energy. This endeavor is far-reaching with global objectives, implications, and potential impact. It will facilitate faster and greater diffusion of this technology in this region which holds significant potential for CSP

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New Range Rover Sport Hybrid by 2012

Land Rover has recently declared that they are going for a new Range Rover Sports Hybrid. They are taking care of the carbon emissions. According to them this car will emit just 100g/km of CO2 and will have an all-electric range of 20 miles. If it can be achieved, the low CO2 figure will be a noteworthy breakthrough for the luxury brand.
This low carbon emission will put the Range Rover Sport’s carbon emissions in an equal category with those of smaller, lighter vehicles like the Citroën C1 and Ford Focus Econetic which emits 148g/km of CO2. Land Rover is planning to launch five prototypes of the vehicle next year ahead of a 2012 sales launch.

The Range Rover Sport Hybrid will operate on a 3.0-liter V6 engine, which will work in tandem with a 25KW electric motor. Land Rover often comes up with a number of different hybrid propulsion systems. They try to be different from what is available in the market. But this Range Rover Sport Hybrid will be somewhat similar to Toyota’s Prius. You can drive this hybrid Range Rover on an all-electric mode basis as well. Land Rover is still playing safe as far as the storage system is concerned. Their first-generation hybrid vehicle will utilize traditional storage systems. They are not opting out for the ultra-capacitors that the company has been testing. Ultra-capacitors are known for delivering high voltages but low currents. The technology is said to be compatible with the needs of the Land Rover because the short, sharp energy boost that capacitors can deliver is well suited to off-road driving.

Range Rover Sport Hybrid people are unwilling to go for the advanced ERAD (electric rear axle drive) design. This design was showcased last year in the Freelander. Land Rover has preferred a more conventional hybrid set-up. ERAD prototypes incorporate a small 35-kW electric motor fitted into the rear axle. ERAD’s motor has the capability to directly power the rear axle. With the help of a Haldex differential and a propeller shaft, it could also drive all four wheels without the use of the turbo-diesel power plant.

According to Kevin Stride, Jaguar’s chief engineer, the British marque that is owned by the TATAs of India too are developing a plug-in hybrid system that will get its primary power from an electric motor, with a small traditional petrol engine functioning as a backup.

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New Hidrogen Storage Method

Hydrogen is an extremely environment friendly fuel as when it burns it releases only water vapor into the atmosphere, but the problem is that it is not easy to store it because it needs to be stored like other compressed gases. A new solid may solve the problem. A nonreactive noble gas called xenon combined with hydrogen and other massive pressure gives rise to a solid that can be later used to store hydrogen fuel. The research paper is published in the November 22, 2009, advanced online publication of Nature Chemistry. The discovery initiates a new line of materials that which could render impetus to new hydrogen technologies.

Xenon is used as an anesthesia, to preserve biological tissues, and it is also used in lighting. Being a noble gas xenon does not typically react with other elements. Researchers used a diamond anvil device to squeeze together xenon and hydrogen.

The lead author Maddury Somayazulu, research scientist at Carnegie’s Geophysical Laboratory, explained: “Elements change their configuration when placed under pressure, sort of like passengers readjusting themselves as the elevator becomes full. We subjected a series of gas mixtures of xenon in combination with hydrogen to high pressures in a diamond anvil cell. At about 41,000 times the pressure at sea level (1 atmosphere), the atoms became arranged in a lattice structure dominated by hydrogen, but interspersed with layers of loosely bonded xenon pairs. When we increased pressure, like tuning a radio, the distances between the xenon pairs changed-the distances contracted to those observed in dense metallic xenon.”

The researchers imaged the compound at different pressures using X-ray diffraction, infrared and Raman spectroscopy. They were really surprised to realize that the response of xenon with the surrounding hydrogen was responsible for the unusual stability and the continuous change in xenon-xenon distances as pressure was adjusted from 41,000 to 255,000 atmospheres.

The researchers were taken off guard by both the structure and stability of this material xenon, according to the lead crystallographer who looked at the changes in electron density at varying pressures using single-crystal diffraction. As electron density from the xenon atoms spreads towards the surrounding hydrogen molecules, it stabilizes the compound and the xenon pairs.

Xenon as a hydrogen carrier is too heavy and expensive but further research in this direction can definitely lead to lighter alternatives. According to Russell Hemley, director of the Geophysical Laboratory and a co-author, “This hydrogen-rich solid represents a new pathway to forming novel hydrogen storage compounds and the new pressure-induced chemistry opens the possibility of synthesizing new energetic materials.”

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