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Natural gas saves the day after hurricane Sandy
The New York Times reports today that residents and businesses of that city that use natural gas for heating, cooking or electrical power generation are up and running, while many who rely on electrical power are still in the dark.
This is ... Read More...
Bridges are singing in the rain
Scientists at Brigham Young University have discovered a way to measure defects in bridges by listening to the sounds they make when impacted by drops of water.
Echo location is the basic principle at work here, a technique used for all ... Read More...
Educating employees in a construction environment
Learn at lunch.
In today's construction environment, you can train employees in-house, or just give up and pretend you don't need to train at all. Trouble is, those companies that don't train run the risk of falling behind those that ... Read More...
A tire that maintains its own pressure
Nothing so ruins a day as having a flat on a truck carrying 60,000 pounds of anything.
Goodyear has taken a big leap forward in developing a solution to this problem with its self-inflating technology for commercial tires.
Unveiled at a German ... Read More...
Pay for mining school grads beats Harvard
Big pay, less prestige.
Who makes more money after graduating from college? Students from Harvard, or graduates of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology?
The 259 students that graduated from that little mining technology program in flyover country recieved an ... Read More...
Pay for mining school grads beats Harvard
Big pay, less prestige.
Who makes more money after graduating from college? Students from Harvard, or graduates of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology?
The 259 students that graduated from that little mining technology program in flyover country recieved an ... Read More...
HHP Summit: The safety of LNG
When the average person views Liquified Natural Gas as a dangerous, toxic fuel, liable to explode at the slightest spark, what's an LNG provider to do?
Try wielding beakers and balloons much like Bill Nye the Science Guy might.
That's how Erik ... Read More...
HHP Summit: ‘Natural gas will become a significant replacement for diesel’
The keynote speaker for the official beginning of the High Horsepower Summit was John Somerhalder, chairman, president, and CEO of AGL Resources, an Atlanta-based energy services and holding company and a member and past director of the board of the ... Read More...
Mike Rowe sends Obama, Romney a letter
Mike Rowe, blue collar champion.
And guess who responds?
The host of TVs Dirty Works show Mike Rowe sent President Obama a letter four years ago about the shortage of skilled labor and the importance of manual labor in the United ... Read More...
Questions on what the EPA funds and why
You frequently hear people in the media complain about the big oil companies funding anti-global warming studies and think tanks. This they do, but you can hardly fault them for promoting their own interests.
What is less well known is how ... Read More...
Deere’s quarterly report
How can a company do so well and yet face so much pessimism in the stock market?
Deere released its third quarter results boasting of an 11-percent increase in earnings on higher sales, a 15-percent jump in worldwide sales (to $9.59 ... Read More...
Diesel aftertreatment works suprisingly well
Never clean enough.
Emissions aftertreatment systems in heavy diesel trucks and equipment may be one of the most expensive regulatory demands in the history of government, but new research indicates that they are having the intended effect.
According to tests done ... Read More...
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