Credit to Author: Gordon Clark| Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 01:00:30 +0000
Opinion: Multitasking — using technology for unrelated to class purposes while being in class — has a negative impact on students who use technology as well as for those sitting near them
Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:28:22 +0000
San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) said on Aug. 12 it will get $3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and another $760,658 from an assortment of industry giants to design a large-scale flameless pressurized oxy-fuel combustion pilot plant. The announcement is a major boost for the promising, but yet unproven technology, that […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:52:48 +0000
GSE Systems said it has delivered and commissioned three additional full-scope simulators for Southern Nuclear’s new Operations Training Centers. The simulators are for the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant, and the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant. Simulators provide efficient hands-on learning for power plant operators. While power plants of […]
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Credit to Author: Evan Duggan| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 23:53:12 +0000
Rakesh Soni shares three tips for big-city tech firm managers who find themselves on the boom path and in need of more space
Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:11:51 +0000
Today’s heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) are suffering reliability problems, mainly because they’re being operated in the cycling mode instead of the baseload mode for which they were designed. The good news is HRSG suppliers are adapting to the market demands and are designing the next generation of HRSGs to have cycling-friendly—also called fast-start—features. One […]
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Credit to Author: Jelisa Castrodale| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 13:29:07 +0000
DataSparQ also hopes to roll out a feature called ‘FaceTab,’ which would recognize patrons and automatically add drinks to their existing tab.
Read moreCredit to Author: Tracey Lilly| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 04:00:45 +0000
Discussions about fossil-fueled power capacity are typically centered on coal and natural gas. The former is seeing a marked decline amid climate concerns, and the latter is seeing unprecedented growth, owing to relatively low prices. Seemingly forgotten, but still a major source of power, are plants fired with petroleum liquids. In 2017, according to the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000
I was recently reviewing a report issued last year by BMI Research, a Fitch Group company. The Megatrends 2050 Special Report , as it is called, suggests there are three main trends that will transform the
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000
The world’s nuclear sector is struggling to stay economically afloat amid a deluge of renewables and natural gas power, and reinvigorating it will require operational flexibility from new or existing
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000
An innovative nuclear wastewater treatment approach that could provide a cost-effective alternative to fixed-column ion-exchange plants is poised to enter the nuclear market. Atkins, a company that
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