DOE Award Advances Maine Tidal Energy Project Program

At the mouth of the Bay of Fundy on the border between easternmost Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, Ocean Renewable Power Co. has been testing huge undersea turbines that the company claims eventually will generate low-cost tidal power from the tidal flow in Cobscook Bay for all of Downeast Maine.
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Intrusion-Detection System Protects Workers and Trains

In an effort to prevent train accidents on a new $2.3-billion, 10-mile-long extension line in San Francisco, the Berryessa-Valley Transportation Authority/Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) team is installing a railroad intrusion-detection system (RIDS) that uses warning devices originally developed for protecting shipping ports from break-ins.

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Book outlining history of FM to release in 2017

Co-authored by Lionel Prodgers and FM academic Brian Atkin, the book’s contents will span from post-World War II to the global industry’s present day dynamics
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Saudi claims $100bn mosque expansion works on time

The issue of capacity in Mecca has resurfaced as as construction work has, in some cases, crimped space at the holy sites causing bottlenecks around tightly-packed entrances
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HHI and CNH Industrial ink mini-excavator deal

South Korea?s Hyundai Heavy Industries has signed a 10-year strategic alliance to supply 14 mini-excavator models that will be marketed by Italy?s CNH Industrial
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