Poseidon Water is adjusting its strategy for gaining permits for Huntington Beach desalination plant, as it moves to keep the project running to schedule.
Ban plastic microbeads by 2017, says UK parliamentary committee
Cosmetic companies should be banned from using plastic microbeads in bathroom products because of the marine pollution they are causing, the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee has demanded…
Reverse osmosis membrane manufacturing to double in Germany, commits LANXESS
Chemicals company LANXESS will double the production capacity of its reverse osmosis manufacturing site in Bitterfeld to meet demand…
Settlement reached in Kentucky American Water rate case
The Kentucky Public Service Commission has granted Kentucky American Water a rate adjustment for water bills that will increase its annual revenue by $6.5 million.
Georgia’s Withlacoochee Water Pollution Control Plant opens ahead of schedule
Parsons was the design-builder for the WPCP project and the designer and construction manager for the force main project.
Pennichuck, N.H., water line to expand; serve Litchfield residents
NHDES and Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics approve bid process to extend Pennichuck water line to Litchfield residents.
RF transistor handles 1.5kW
NXP’s MRF1K50H is a 1,500W LDMOS transistor, following on from the 1,250W MRFE6VP61K25H. 1.5kW continuous wave is available at 50V, and the device works over 1.8–500MHz. The transistor is characterised from 30-50V. “It operates up to 500MHz for applications from laser and plasma sources to particle accelerators, industrial welding machines, radio and VHF TV broadcast transmitters, and …
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African Software Developer Undercuts India and S.E.Asia
Andela, the African software development company, has received $24 million from Mark Zuckerberg’s investment vehicle Chan Zuckerberg. The two year-old Andela, based in Nairobi and Nigeria, trains people to code and then puts them on contracts with international customers to write software for them. It has 200 developers. Andela’s coders are said to rank in …
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Wizard Chess moves via Raspberry Pi
I salute the ambition of this one, a Raspberry Pi chess system to control the movement of pieces on the board.
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Foundry Fiesta
Gartner and IC Insights have looked at the foundry industry which grows whatever happens to the rest of the semiconductor industry: The IC Insights view: The Gartner view:
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