Oregon’s First Plastic Bottle Recycling Plant Opens · OPB News
Cassandra Profita | April 27, 2012 7:49 p.m. | Updated: April 30, 2012 6:17 a.m. | Portland, OR Oregon’s first recycling plant for plastic bottles opened near St. Helens Friday. A company called ORPET has built a $10 million recycling facility at the Port of St. Helens. Bruce Sone is the sales director for ORPET. he said a major change in Oregon’s bottle deposit law made the project possible. Last year, the state added water bottles to the list of beverage containers that...
read morePink on Green: How to Ignite the Second Electrical Revolution
The electric industry is good at building things. That’s how it solves problems. Is there a threat of blackouts? Develop a new natural gas-fired plant. Worried about climate change? Build wind and solar power. does electricity cost too much? Install a transmission line to import cheaper power. But build-to-solve represents only half of the equation in the new world of smart grid. the other half, the part that...
read moreVideo: Specialized Turbo, the ‘world’s fastest’ electric bike
By BikeRadar | Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012 6.00pm Specialized launched a new bike today – but it won’t be available in the US, and perhaps the UK too, because it’s too fast! Three years in development, the €5,499 Turbo, which is Specialized’s first production electric bike, has been designed specifically to be “the fastest and best e-bike ever”. however, its top assisted speed of...
read moreEnhanced Geothermal Systems: Have a Little Faith
New Hampshire, U.S.A. — Geothermal resource hot spots: Nevada, Arizona, California, and…Pennsylvania? Yes, even the east coast looks like a viable location for geothermal energy. why? Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) are making it possible. Widening the Door of Potential Traditional geothermal energy harvesting involves drilling into natural hot pockets of steam and water. These pockets can be difficult to find and locations vary widely, while the power produced depends on...
read moreChina Solar Silicon Production Curbed 30% to Lift Prices: Energy
February 17, 2012, 8:16 AM EST Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — China’s polysilicon industry, the biggest supplier to solar-panel manufacturers worldwide, has idled almost one-third of production and may keep the plants closed until prices recover from a 60 percent plunge. The price tumble spurred the smallest producers including units of Baoding Tianwei Baobian Electric co. and Dongfang Electric Corp. to halt plants, according to Xie Chen, an analyst from the China Nonferrous Metals Industrial Association,...
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