People and the environment are paying the price while corporations reap the profits. Today in Boston, on the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, we hosted a preview of a remarkable study soon to be published, authored by Dr. Paul Epstein, Director of Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment. Epstein and eleven co-authors have complied a first of its kind “Full Cost Accounting for the Life Cycle of Coal”, tracking the multiple human health and environmental impacts of c...
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Fuel Tech, Inc. a world leader in advanced engineering solutions for the optimization of combustion systems for utility and industrial customers, announced today that it will host its fourth quarter 2010 conference call on Thursday, March 10, 2011. The call will be simultaneously broadcast over the Internet. Fuel Tech is a leading technology company engaged in the worldwide development, commercialization and application of state-of-the-art proprietary technologies for air pollution control, pro...
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Smart grid network players are slowing choosing their preferred startups to provide applications and devices at the edges of the network. On Tuesday, router giant Cisco announced it has made an equity investment in, and has created a distribution partnership with, Control4, a startup that provides home automation and energy gear and services. (Cisco’s SVP of Emerging Technologies Marthin De Beer, and Control4′s CEO Will West will both be speaking at our Green:Net event on April 21 in San Fra...
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Inventys has developed a gas separation technology that it claims enables carbon dioxide to be captured from industrial flue gas streams for US $15 per tonne of CO2. Called the VeloxoTherm™ process, it has the ability to recover the heat energy evolved during adsorption and use it to help release the CO2. The VeloxoTherm™ (velox = fast; therm = thermal) gas separation process is a post combustion carbon dioxide capture technology that has been developed by Inventys Thermal Technologies. Th...
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Fossil fuel guzzling has fallen out of favor. Alternative fuels and energy efficiency are in demand, especially when the source of energy is wood, the ultimately renewable resource. Even more appealing is when the wood fuel is a byproduct of the facility it’s heating and is burned in an eco-friendly fashion. “Wood is our lifestyle, our bread n’ butter, and is at the core of everything we do,” says Merv Wenger, owner of Wenger Woodworks in Manheim, Pa. Merv and his son Travis operate the...
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The Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Orion team shipped out the first Orion crew module spacecraft structure today from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, La. The spacecraft is headed to Lockheed Martin's Denver, Colo. facilities where it will undergo a series of rigorous tests to confirm Orion's ability to safely fly astronauts through all the harsh environments of deep space exploration missions. Soon after the spacecraft arrives in Denver, it will be integrated with the heat shield ...
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The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 68 new members and nine foreign associates, announced NAE President Charles M. Vest today. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,290 and the number of foreign associates to 202. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appr...
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Like many Americans, I tuned in to watch the State of the Union address last Tuesday to hear how President Obama planned to work with the newly elected bi-partisan legislature. The President laid out some ambitious plans to achieve the speech's theme of "winning the future." While these plans included a few new priorities for the Obama administration, many of the initiatives described in the speech have been part of the President's agenda since his 2008 election campaign. One of these enduring i...
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Duratherm S is silicon-based thermal fluid, while Duratherm G is made from polyalkylene glycol, and Duratherm HF has petroleum hydrocarbon formulation. Featuring flashpoints of 500°F to as high as 615°F, heat transfer fluids enable industrial users to comply with demands of insurance companies, fire marshals, and other industry regulators to operate at temperatures lower than fluid's flashpoint. Industrial users of heat transfer fluids are under increasing pressure by insurance companies, fir...
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Despite the many advantages offered by thermal fluid systems – higher temperatures, improved accuracy and control as well as fewer corrosion issues, ease of maintenance, and greater flexibility – they have made few inroads against traditional steam systems in the process industries. The next issue of Process Engineering magazine will include a feature on thermal fluids. For this, we are seeking readers’ views on the relative advantages and disadvantages of this technology compared to steam...
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