Tag: Press Releases
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New Water Construction: Italian Drinking Water Plant Featuring GE’s Advanced Membrane Technology
The largest drinking water purification plant in Europe to feature GE’s ZeeWeed 500 advanced water treatment technology is under construction in Ravenna, Italy. Located on the east coast of Italy, close to the Adriatic Sea and part of the Mediterranean Sea, this popular tourist destination needed a way to ensure increased water supply, as a…
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E-Waste Systems Enters Australia with 1800eWaste
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australia is the 10th largest user of technology worldwide, and the problem created by e-waste is mounting. In Australia, electronic waste, or e-waste, is growing at three times the rate of general waste. The cumulative volume of televisions and computers reaching the end of their useful life is…
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Making Gold Green: New Non-Toxic Method for Mining Gold
This may appear to be far afield from the normal content of Green Building Elements, but for those of us alarmed by the liberal amounts of cyanide that are used worldwide to process gold, this discovery released today by Northwestern University might represent the beginning of less poisonous news on how the metal is processed.…
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Largest Federal Wind Farm to Be Built by Siemens
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has awarded a contract to Siemens Government Technologies, Inc. (Siemens) to construct the federal government’s largest wind farm. The Pantex wind farm is expected to save an average of $2.9 million annually over the 20-year contract term. The installation will consist of five 2.3 megawatt turbines located on 1,500…