An alcohol company of business tycoon Lucio C. Tan was cited as a model for environmental responsibility following the inauguration over the weekend of an emission reduction project in partnership with a large Japanese corporation. Absolut Chemicals, Inc. and Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan inaugurated Friday the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project at Absolut’s plant in Lian, Batangas …
(Science Daily) A method to detect contaminants in municipal water supplies has undergone further refinements by two Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers whose findings are published on line in Water Environment Research… 8/30
(Scientific Computing) Engineers are putting decades of existing electrical research by industry electricity leaders from American Superconductor, Southwire and Consolidated Edison into practice, as they eye the aging rats’ nest of power cabling under the crowded streets of New York City. ST managers and scientists recently participated in a successful test of the new superconducting technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory… 8/28
(Knoxville News Sentinel) ORNL is supposed to provide the Air Force base in Delaware with applied research, deployment of existing technologies and/or innovative technologies to address the energy and environmental challenges…. 8/29
(Scientific Computing) As computers become more powerful, they are better able to provide answers to increasingly complex scientific questions. Unfortunately, answering these questions comes with significant costs: scientists become intimately familiar with hardware platforms, learn specialized languages and data formats to efficiently represent results, and actively shepherd their simulation runs to identify and correct potential problems as early as possible… 8/28
(Knoxville News Sentinel) While Oak Ridge officials and their advocates in Washington push the multi-billion-dollar Uranium Processing Facility for all it???s worth, another proposed production facility at Y-12 has been put on the back burner for the foreseeable future… 8/31
(Oak Ridger) The Oak Ridge High School reconstruction project is officially done, says Heery International Senior Vice President Greg Peirce, one of the project managers. We are extremely pleased, Peirce told Oak Ridge Board of Education members during their regular meeting held earlier this week… 8/28
(Chattanooga Times Free Press) Catoosa County sheriff’s deputies soon will have laptop computers in their patrol vehicles, thanks to federal stimulus money. The Catoosa County Sheriff’s Department has received $160,000 in grants to buy laptops for 32 patrol vehicles as well as the necessary software and training… 8/31
(Tennessean) A study by a Memphis nonprofit group proposes major changes in the way agricultural land in the Delta is used to create a bioeconomy worth $8 billion with more than 25,000 jobs in the next decade… 8/31
(Tennessean) More than $37 million in federal stimulus money is flowing into the state through the National Institutes of Health. Vanderbilt University claimed the most in the first year ??? $22 million for research and job creation, compared with $1.8 million for Meharry Medical College and the same for Middle Tennessee State University… 8/31