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New Concerns About Northwest Nuclear Waste Plant
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) – The federal government says a one-of-a-kind plant that will convert radioactive waste into a stable and storable substance that resembles glass will cost hundreds of millions of dollars more and may take longer to build, adding to a string of delays and skyrocketing price tag for the project.
In addition, several workers at southeast Washington’s Hanford nuclear reservation have raised concerns about the safety of the …
New Zealand Engineers Found Building Safe Before Collapse
By Nick Perry
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – Engineers inspected and declared a New Zealand office building safe …
Barnegat Bay At Heart Of Sewer-Development Bill
By Wayne Parry
BAY HEAD, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey is moving forward with a proposed law that would make it easier for developers to build in environmentally sensitive areas.
A state Senate committee approved a bill that could make it easier to build in areas near the fragile Barnegat Bay and elsewhere in the state. The measure would keep sewer service approvals in place for as long as the next two years and prohibits governments from protecting land already eligible for development by removing it from the areas …
World’s Most Efficient HVAC Rooftop Solar Hot Air Collector Introduced By Enerconcept
Enerconcept Technologies Inc., Magog, Quebec, a leading solar air heating equipment manufacturer and distributor, introduces the new Luba™ GL, the world’s most efficient, inexpensive and lightweight rooftop solar hot air collector for supplemental outside air heating in commercial, institutional and industrial facilities.
Luba GL technology boasts a maximum thermal output of 247-BTU/h/ft2 (780-watts/m2) and airflow of 6 to 12-cfm per 112 (L) x 36 (H) x 8 …
Cintas Releases New Carhartt Rental Active Jacket
CINCINNATI – November 7, 2011 – Cintas Corporation, North America’s largest uniform supplier, has added a popular Carhartt Jacket to its Carhartt Rental Workwear line. This addition was prompted by an overwhelming demand by Cintas customers, many of whom work outdoors and in cold temperatures.
“Carhartt is synonymous with outerwear, so with colder months approaching, this was a natural addition and ideal timing,” says Chuck Helmes, National …
New Spark Plug From Federal-Mogul Helps Extend Engine Service Life In Demanding Industrial Applications
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Federal-Mogul Corporation (NASDAQ: FDML) has developed a new Champion® FB-M18 iridium spark plug for large stationary engine applications, utilizing compressed natural gas (CNG), landfill-gas, or biogas fuels. The industrial spark plug’s new design offers to the power generation sector an optimal combination of extended life and high value.
Large industrial gas engines are used to operate electricity generators and large industrial compressors. The operators demand the ultimate in reliable service …
New Operating System For Space: High-Tech Tycoons
By Donna Blankinship And Seth Borenstein
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IBM Picked To Supply Wyo. Climate Supercomputer
By Mead Gruver
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – IBM has beaten out three competitors and won a bid to supply one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers for use in climate research at a new facility in Cheyenne.
The supercomputer, to be called Yellowstone, will begin running computations next summer for scientists associated with the Boulder, Colo.-based National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR announced.
The machine will be capable of 1.6 petaflops. That’s 1.6 quadrillion operations per second – or more than 221,000 calculations per second for every man, woman …
Driverless Car Navigates Berlin Streets
BERLIN (AP) – It can talk, see, drive and no longer needs a human being to control it by remote. The car of the future – completely computer-controlled – is on the streets of Berlin.
All summer, researchers from the city’s Free University have been testing the automobile around the German capital.
The vehicle maneuvers through traffic on its own using a sophisticated combination of devices, including a computer, electronics and a …
Online Learning Grows More Popular In Minnesota
By Chris Williams
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – More Minnesota students are taking advantage of the scheduling flexibility and growing online class choices, but a state report released found students taking the classes full-time often fell short of their peers in traditional schools.
The Office of the Legislature Auditor reported that an estimated 20,000 students in kindergarten through high school took at least one online course last year – about 8,000 while attending traditional schools and 12,000 in state-approved online schools. Altogether, that’s less than 3 percent of …
Grandson Donates Century-Old Journal
By Rachel Wells
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) …
Barnes & Noble’s Unveils $249 Nook Tablet
By Mae Anderson
NEW YORK (AP) – Barnes & Noble unveiled a $249 Nook Tablet Monday just ahead of the crucial holiday shopping season as the book retailer fights for a larger share of the lucrative e-book market.
Tablets and e-book readers are going to be flying off the shelves before the holidays, and both Barnes & Noble Inc. and Amazon are hoping to challenge Apple and its dominant iPad for a …
Online Gamers Crack Scientific Puzzle
By Joe Rojas-Burke
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -Scientists were stumped.
For more than a decade, biochemists ould not fully decipher the structure of a key protein, called a protease, that retroviruses such as HIV need to multiply. Knowing it would be a key step toward developing better antiviral drugs.
So University of Washington scientists unleashed an avid group of online gamers. Within three furious weeks of play, pitting teams of non-scientists against each other, the gamers delivered the first accurate model of a retroviral protease. Knowing the structure is a …
Outdated Computer Systems Threaten State Services
By Ivan Moreno
DENVER (AP) – It’s the digital elephant in the room: An outdated state computer system at risk of a crash that would interrupt crucial government accounting services.
In Colorado, a crash of the state’s central financial reporting system would stall payments for food stamps and construction contracts and affect nearly every state agency, according to a July audit that said there was a significant risk of a crash because of obsolete technology and programming code.
Several other states face the same issue, according to the National Association …
