Genetically Engineering the Sweet Stuff
The News Review:
- Genetically Engineering the Sweet Stuff
- Cambashi Analyses AEC Market in Europe Mideast Africa
- Despite plant fixes sewage still spilling into Yough
- FLSmidth gets 785 mln dkr Australian minerals plant order
- NGP to Proceed with Faulkner Plant
- Big Investment in Production Facilities Supports McCormick
Genetically Engineering the Sweet Stuff
NPR – Feb 14, 2008
But half of all sugar in the United States comes right out of the ground — from sugar beets. And this spring thousands of American farmers are hoping to plant sugar beets that have been genetically engineered. The American Crystal Sugar factory in Moorhead Minn. which processes sugar beets into the granular sucrose we know is a steaming belching coal-burning monster. n the day I visited it was 11 degrees below zero and blowing hard. But for sugar beets that’s perfect… “The sad truth is the 10-pound bags aren’t very popular anymore because people don’t bake at home as much as they used to” Berg says. The New Sugar BeetThe real sugar factories though are silent ones: green leafy beet plants that turn sunlight into sucrose. The new sugar beet that farmers here in North Dakota want to plant has a gene inserted into it that lets the plant withstand Roundup the popular chemical weedkiller. Farmers who plant these sugar beets can spray Roundup on their fields and kill the weeds while the sugar beet plants survive. Alan Dexter a weed scientist at North Dakota State University met a group of farmers last week at a hotel in Fargo N. to talk about this new weapon in the war on weeds.
Cambashi Analyses AEC Market in Europe Mideast Africa
Ten Links – Ten Links (press release) – Feb 14, 2008
First users are beginning to transition from 2D “electronic drawing board” technology to 3D building information modeling (BIM) technology. Secondly users in the AEC industry are demanding that the different software tools used by different design disciplines integrate better. Mike Evans Director of Research at Cambashi comments: “With users adopting building and plant modeling they want a more integrated approach to design. The providers of design and Draughting software like Autodesk and Bentley want to provide a more integrated approach for complementary design disciplines such as structural analysis. They are extending their portfolios to include software tools. ” Acquisitions to integrate engineering disciplines Recently the biggest software developers in the AEC space have acquired niche applications software developers that develop tools for complementary engineering disciplines. They understand the need for seamless data integration to help users obtain benefits from BIM.
Despite plant fixes sewage still spilling into Yough
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Feb 14, 2008
htm –>Despite plant fixes sewage still spilling into YoughThursday February 14 2008By Don Hopey Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe Elizabeth Township Sanitary Authority has improved staffing pumping and flow through its sewage treatment plant as ordered by the Allegheny County Health Department but raw sewage continues to flow into the lower Youghiogheny River. The authority’s Buena Vista sewage treatment plant reported sewage overflows are continuing and have occurred on every day but three in 2008 including 18 days of more than 1 million gallons. The highest daily overflow occurred Feb. 6 when an estimated 8. 725 million gallons of untreated sewage and storm water bypassed the plant and was discharged into the river. The amount was estimated because the heavy flow flooded out the monitor… According to the health department the authority has begun staffing the treatment plant around the clock and hand pumping sewage through the facility to boost treatment volume and comply with a Jan. 24 county order aimed at eventually stopping the overflows. Guillermo Cole a health department spokesman said county health inspectors visited the treatment plant yesterday and verified installation of a pipe to bypass a plumbing design flaw that had restricted flow between the aeration tanks and clarifiers and also to determine if flow monitors on all sanitary sewer overflows throughout the system were in place and working as ordered. “They’ve met the order’s initial deadlines” Mr. “bviously they still have overflow problems they need to address.
FLSmidth gets 785 mln dkr Australian minerals plant order
Forbes – Feb 14, 2008
The order will contribute to FLSmidth’s earnings until the plant is commissioned in the third quarter 2010. The plant will be located in the West Pilbara region in Western Australia and is designed initially to produce up to 6 mln tonnes per year of magnetite concentrate. ‘The project confirms our strategy and vision for the future’ said FLSmidth chief executive Joergen Huno Rasmussen. ‘The acquisition of Dorr-liver Eimco and Krebs Engineers last year combined with the other acquisitions in previous years means that FLSmidth is now the only player in the world that can facilitate complete plants in both the cement and minerals industries’ he added… The order will contribute to FLSmidth’s earnings until the plant is commissioned in the third quarter 2010. The plant will be located in the West Pilbara region in Western Australia and is designed initially to produce up to 6 mln tonnes per year of magnetite concentrate. ‘The project confirms our strategy and vision for the future’ said FLSmidth chief executive Joergen Huno Rasmussen. ‘The acquisition of Dorr-liver Eimco and Krebs Engineers last year combined with the other acquisitions in previous years means that FLSmidth is now the only player in the world that can facilitate complete plants in both the cement and minerals industries’ he added.
NGP to Proceed with Faulkner Plant
renewableenergyaccess.com – Feb 14, 2008
have announced that NGP Blue Mountain I LLC has issued a $20 million Limited Notice to Proceed (LNTP) under a fixed-price date-certain engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contract to be signed with rmat Nevada Inc. to supply and construct the Phase 1 power plant of NGP’s planned geothermal power development at Blue Mountain Nevada. “The plant will extract more megawatt-hours of energy per unit volume of geothermal fluid compared to steam flash or other available technologies maximizing the overall megawatt potential for the Blue Mountain geothermal field. –Brian Fairbank President and CE NGP. Full release of the EPC contact is subject to finalizing of the financing for the project and is expected to occur before June 30 2008… –Brian Fairbank President and CE NGP. Full release of the EPC contact is subject to finalizing of the financing for the project and is expected to occur before June 30 2008. "rmat is a recognized world leader in the geothermal industry and the rmat binary technology complements Blue Mountain’s resource parameters and chemistry most efficiently. The plant will extract more megawatt-hours of energy per unit volume of geothermal fluid compared to steam flash or other available technologies maximizing the overall megawatt potential for the Blue Mountain geothermal field" said Brian Fairbank president and CE of.
Big Investment in Production Facilities Supports McCormick
Stackyard – Feb 14, 2008
“We like to build as much of our tractors as possible to control quality” emphasises Mr Zamboni. “With only a few exceptions we make all the transmissions rear axles front axles and cabs in our own factories. ” Future plans for the Fabbrico factory include relocating the design engineering and R&D departments to an all-new facility to accommodate the extra engineers and other staff taken on to help develop the McCormick range. In the meantime the assembly line workers at the headquarters plant are producing 60hp to 200hp tractors at a rate of 56 per day with some more capacity still to come. “That will be welcome news to our patient customers and dealers eager for deliveries” says Ray Spinks. “After all the uncertainty it’s good to see the McCormick range settled into its new home… “With only a few exceptions we make all the transmissions rear axles front axles and cabs in our own factories. ” Future plans for the Fabbrico factory include relocating the design engineering and R&D departments to an all-new facility to accommodate the extra engineers and other staff taken on to help develop the McCormick range. In the meantime the assembly line workers at the headquarters plant are producing 60hp to 200hp tractors at a rate of 56 per day with some more capacity still to come. “That will be welcome news to our patient customers and dealers eager for deliveries” says Ray Spinks. “After all the uncertainty it’s good to see the McCormick range settled into its new home.
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