NECi Superior Enzymes’ enzyme-based nitrate test method has been approved for use by the EPA.
Senate passes WRDA, water sector responds
The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2016 passed with a broad bi-partisan vote of 95 to 3.
Star Pipe Products acquires Jensen International
The company intends to expand the existing facility in Oklahoma and install new and updated equipment to expand its existing production and produce for its own requirements as well.
Zephyrhills, Fla., water utility first to adopt the Smart Grid for Water in the state
Utility adds more than 12,000 meters to platform with FATHOM.
Gradiant announces formation of oilfield services subsidiary
Gradiant Energy Services provides solutions and services for economic, efficient and environmentally friendly treatment, reuse and recycling of water in the oil and gas industry.
Cloth harvests motion and sunlight
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have made a fabric that can simultaneously harvest energy from sunshine and motion. Professor Zhong Lin Wang and team used a commercial machine to weave together polymer solar cell fibres and with fibre-based triboelectric generators. Triboelectric generators use a combination of the triboelectric effect and electrostatic induction to generate small …
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Fable: How Bureaucrats Screw Things Up
Once upon a time a couple of scientists discovered a wonder material. For this they received the Nobel Prize and a brace of knighthoods. Then the government started thinking how to take advantage of this discovery. It decided to allocate £60 million for development of the material. The money was used to set up an …
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Replace Hinkley Point with a battery?
I have concerned thoughts about non-UK governemnts being involved in building UK nuclear infrastructure. Some of these are: UK skills creation, national security and ‘borrowing from the future’ – the latter being my clumsy way of saying – private companies spend now and the public picks up the cost for generations to come – PFI hospital …
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Be Careful With Easyjet
Be careful with EasyJet at the moment. A couple of weeks back friends got stranded in Geneva when their Geneva to Nice flight was delayed for hours. On Tuesday I was to fly from Gatwick to Munich. The flight was delayed then EasyJet offered to fly us to Milan, put us up in a hotel …
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Enterprise Support customers now receive credits toward self-paced training
Enterprise Support customers will now have access to self-paced training labs provided through an AWS training partner. These labs provide a hands-on learning environment based on real-world scenarios.