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Picking up where the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy project left off, a new plan to harness tidal energy from New York City’s rivers has been proposed by a New York architecture firm.
How's this for stimulus? The U.S. government may be close to suspending the insanely popular, $1-billion "Cash for Clunkers" because it has already run out of money after only a few days of existence, various news outlets are reporting. The program was intended to run through Nov. 1. "Obviously the program has been an...
In June, I wrote about an unstable crane atop the Blue Cross-Blue Shield building in Chicago. The incident came right on the heels of 2008, the worst year of crane accidents in U.S. history.
Once in awhile I get to do what the people in the construction industry get to do every day. I get to build something....And then all the chickens come home to roost….
It's not everyday you see the hulking steel frames of seven giant mining trucks lined up outside a manufacturing plant, like sleeping dinosaurs. But in the this recession, anything goes. A dormant order of about $24 million in these beastly machines is exactly what I saw yesterday at Liebherr's domestic
Global climate change is real. It's caused by humans, it's happening in the U.S. and it’s happening now. Amazingly, despite decades of growing evidence and agreement by ever-greater numbers of climate scientists, there are still people who deny that.
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