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BRIDGEPORT -- Luis Rullan's fingers worked the knobs on either side of his seat as he stared intently at two 50-foot mountains of garbage on either side of his glassed-in room on the Wheelabrator Bridgeport plant's fifth floor. "The room holds 13,000 tons of trash," said Mike Prutting, the day shift supervisor. "There are about 10,500 or 11,000 tons now. Right?" "Just about," Rullan answered, his fingers maneuvering a large crane -- like those used to pick toys out of prize machines -- to lift old mattresses, pieces of wood, torn clothes and garbage bags. With another twist, Rullan dumped them into the feeder hopper, a vent leading to the combustion grater where the garbage is burned at 2,250 degrees Farenheit. That is the start of the process that converts 2,200 tons of the region's waste into more than 67,000 kilowatts of electricity daily. "It's a good place to work," said Rullan, who has been employed at the plant for 25 years. "I love it here." On Wednesday, the company celebrated its silver anniversary and its employees with a celebration, lunch and guided tours of the facility. "The green vision for Bridgeport started right here 25 years ago," Mayor Bill Finch said. The site is also a boon for the city's tax rolls, topping the top taxpayer list each year with a property assessment of $282 million, not including personal property. And it employs many Bridgeport residents, including Rullan. One employee, Jaime Rodriguez, walked 3.5 hours from his Bridgeport home to the Howard Avenue plant days after a February blizzard paralyzed the city for nearly a week. "The employees are the foundation of the business," said Vin Langone, regional vice president for Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. Plans are in the works to expand the business' scope in the city by using the heat left over after the trash is converted to energy to heat homes and businesses downtown. Around 250 degrees, the heat is released as steam from the company's tall stacks. "Instead of only generating electricity, we're talking about sending out heat through a piping network," Langone said. The South End site is owned by Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., which has 17 waste-to-energy facilities and four power plants throughout the nation. In the last five years, the company has expanded internationally with operations in the United Kingdom and China. Over the last 25 years, the plant has processed 18.5 million tons of waste -- enough to fill tractor-trailer trucks lined up from Bridgeport to Honolulu -- and generated 13 million megawatts of electricity, enough to power more than 2 million Xbox gaming systems for a year. That fact was fascinating to the 12 middle-schoolers sitting nearby listening, members of Park City Magnet School's Green Squad. The children were sponsored by Wheelabrator to participate in an environmental symposium in Florida, something the company has done for decades. Soon after the celebration began winding down, attendees began dispersing or taking their places at the buffet line for lunch. But not Rullan. He mingled for a few minutes, before finding his way back inside, grabbing his white hard hat, ear plugs and safety glasses and returning to his seat at the start of the waste-to-energy process. Related News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0drCNOZPHcI https://getsatisfaction.com/asia-global-energy
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Where MS cannot Dell can! new Apple Air PC alternative. i5/i7 HASWELL options - new core graphics can handle just about anything... 14-15 inch is a missing sweet spot for size replaceable battery - minumum 5 hours of business use / 2.5 gaming use upgradeable memory (4/8GB) offer mSSD slot at least 2x USB 3 with quickcharge Card reader partner with AT&T for business everywhere feature offer compact (cover?) keyboard stylist style pen / touch screen Resolution of 1080p minimum offer travel sleeve offer multiple covers must be <5 lbs... lighter is better 350 nit brightness minimum Nothing listed is technically unreachable and MS seems slow to the table (and undersized for a serious work/play combo device).
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this is a repost of the original desktop case design.its still made by me and you wont find it anywhere else than ideastorm.i used about 3-4 months on this design.due to the fact that when i started it i wasnt that good at scaling i made it about double the size of a normal desktop case.if it is to be implemented please rescale it :S because having a super tall computer wouldnt be that great.IMPORTANT!!!: this is a post to improve some of the things i forgot to include to the original post!the USB ports will be on the front above the cd/dvd rom door/latch and you can put around 1-4 USB 2 or 3 ports there if you want to.all other fans/ inputs etc... will also have regular placements as in most other computers.IMPORTANT NOTE TO MODERATORS: you are allowed to change the design of the case so do not sk where you want things because you can just fix that wherever you want :DPictures:ignore the fan placements in the picture above!!!! (THE ONE ABOVE THAT AGAIN IS THE PLACEMENT YOU WANT!)VERY IMPORTANT!: if the moderators at ideastorm wants to remove this one for just being one very similar to my old one please remove the old one instead as this is an improved post!!!
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So quite simple. I would like a XPS 18 with the new Haswell processors. I also expect Intel Graphics 5,000 or better, and better battery life. It also needs 802.11ac. And I hope you keep all the good configurations (i5 with stand and i7 with stand).Just letting you know, my grandfather wants a i5 XPS 18, but I'm telling him to wait for the Haswell version. :)
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If its available on Alinware 14 then why not on A 17? LCD IPS is by no doubt the best display a portable device can ever get (except for maybe an OLED screen .. but no hopes there). It will be amazing to see an IPS display on A 17. And I'm also planning to get an A 17 in the following month and I would definetly pay extra for an IPS Display.
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First off, a 1080P Screen standard. Think about it, you have 1080P on a 13' and 15' but not 14'?Second, a 28nm GPU with GDDR5. (and 128bit memory) The previous model had a GDDR5 but with only 64 bit memory bus making the GDDR5 only equal to 128 DDR3, the model also had a 40nm GPU which is less efficient and less powerfull.Thirdly, (but somewhat less critical) either make the upcomming model lighter or add a ultra slim optical drive.
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