Akron unveils new renewable energy plant (Akron.com) The anaerobic digestion system (ADS), will use 100 percent of the biosolids generated from the city’s water reclamation facility to operate. The plant takes biosolids and transforms them into biogas that produces renewable energy in the form of electricity.
Bridge Repair Is A Sound Investment (The Columbus Dispatch) Gov. John Kasich announced last week that the Ohio Department of Transportation will spend $120 million over the next three years to make a dent in the backlog of bridge repairs statewide. ODOT estimates the state project will provide for about 109,000 full-time jobs, including in design and maintenance, which earn about $4.2 billion a year in payroll.
New Mellon Grant Preserves Digital Journals at Cornell and Columbia (Campus Technology) Cornell and Columbia Universities have received a $150,000, 18-month grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand their efforts in preserving e-journals as a project undertaken by the libraries' 2CUL partnership. There is an assumption that e-journals are perpetual, but they are way more vulnerable than their print counterparts due to hardware, software, and metadata issues.
New supercomputer uses SSDs as alternative to DRAM, hard drives (PC World) Catalyst will be deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and was built by the Department of Energy. Catalyst is using solid-state drive storage as an alternative to DRAM and hard drives, which could help speed up internal data transfers.
Portman, Brown Urge Defense Department to Fund Advanced Manufacturing Institute in Partnership Between Edison Welding, Ohio State University (Senator Portman) Senators Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown urged the U.S. Department of Defense to support a proposal for an Advanced Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute that would accelerate development of new and innovated technology essential to Ohio manufacturing. The proposal would create a partnership between the Edison Welding Institute, The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan.
Technology: The 3-D Printing Premium (IndustryWeek) 3-D printing has long been the way to bring highly customized goods to wealthy customers willing to pay for personalization. Now some manufactures have found that their products can be produced in a better quality through 3-D printing, and many more consumers are willing to pay for quality of vanity.
