Perkins Specialized Transportation Contracting used model-based design and digital prototyping to design and build a 400-foot-long truck specifically to transport huge nuclear generators. The truck, which took nearly three years to build, provides a way […]
Indonesia leads the world with 150 volcanoes. Indonesia is also the most seismically active country is the world and it seems that hardly a quarter goes by when a new earthquake or volcanic eruption is […]
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released a study Failure to Act, The Economic Impact of Current Investment Trands in Surface Transportation Infrastructure which assesses the impact of underinvestment in surface transportation infrastructure (highways and transit […]
The last time I was in Singapore the Marina Bay Sands resort was still under construction and was just three incomplete towers. Now there is a “floating sky park” 200 meters above Marina Bay. The […]
Background In 2008 Indonesia had 27.8 GW of installed generating capacity. Most of Indonesia’s generated electricity, around 86 percent, is from fossil fuels, eight percent is from hydroelectric, and six percent is from geothermal and […]
The creator of the C programming language and the co-author of the book of the same name has died. Dennis Ritchie joined Bell Labs in 1967 and in addition to developing C was one of […]
FERC Chairman John Wellinghoff and Department of Energy (DoE) Senior Advisor Lauren Azarwill appear before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power to review FERC’s planning and cost allocation Order 1000 at […]
In 2008 the British Columbia Legislature passed the first carbon tax bill in North America. BC’s carbon tax assesses different taxes depending on fuel type. Yesterday Australia’s Parliament passed a carbon tax bill called the […]