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Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Envirotec Magazine

A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges, according to the firm behind it, Isle Utilities. It is against this background that Isle set up its Urban Resilience Technology Approval Group (UR TAG) in 2019. Technology pilots.

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Sponsored content: Rigid trucks tick all the boxes for sludge transportation

Envirotec Magazine

The order comprises a mix of seven 6×4 rigids and seven 8×4 tridems for use exclusively on the company’s contract transporting sludge for Yorkshire Water. Mark Scott, Fleet Engineer at Suttons Tankers, says: “We’ve run Volvo for many years, but this is the first time we’ve opted for FMX rigids. It was an easy decision in the end.”.

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REDEEMing pumping stations for eels

Envirotec Magazine

Environmental DNA: HIFI is optimising molecular techniques that detect DNA left behind in river water by resident fish. Here, I and the REDEEM project team briefly describe some of the key questions our research is trying to answer for the flood and water level management sector. Of the acoustic tagged eels, 80.8%

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MIT Study Lays Bare Why Nuclear Costs Keep Rising

GreenTechMedia

Only General Electric's BWR-4 boiling water reactor managed to get cheaper after the first plant. And each setback adds to the total cost as workers stand idle and managers tinker with revised schedules. According to the MIT research, however, in three out of four U.S. In the U.K.,

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Mercurial matter: Puzzling out PFAS removal in landfill

Envirotec Magazine

A contaminant whose importance appears to have grown significantly in recent years, poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) present a challenge to pollution management given their apparent toxicity – although a clear picture is still emerging – and persistence.

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How Dominion Energy Plans to Launch an Offshore Wind Empire

GreenTechMedia

Four years after the Block Island project first put wind turbines in American waters, the second U.S. With two turbines, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot is tiny; and with a price tag of $300 million, it’s very expensive for a generation facility of its size. A tiny project in a market obsessed with scale.

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Study: Climate change to blame for $8 billion of Hurricane Sandy damages

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There is a universe in which Hurricane Sandy didn’t create quite so much devastation back in 2012; where the waters, which surged deep into subway tunnels and left parts of New York City in the dark for days, left some parts of the tri-state area unscathed. And that universe, according to scientists, is one without climate change.