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Tesla joins with Toyota to Reopen NUMMI
(Posted 06/01/2010 By
Keith Sutton)
Excellent article on Toyota/Tesla Motor NUMMI Deal!!
Tesla Motors announced Thursday it will use a $50 million investment from Toyota Corp. to help it buy the recently closed Nummi auto plant in Fremont and reopen it to build electric cars.
The project will bring badly needed jobs to the Bay Area and is a surprising win for the Bay Area's green economy just seven weeks after New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. laid off 4,700 unionized auto workers as its two owners, General Motors and Toyota, ended their 25-year partnership at California's
last auto plant....
Altamont Landfill's gas fuels garbage trucks
(Posted 03/15/2010 By
Stephanie Brown)
A company that manages landfills has a new source of fuel for its garbage trucks - rotting trash.
At the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, Waste Management Inc. has installed a $15.5 million system that collects gas given off by decomposing garbage and turns it into fuel. The company unveiled the system on Monday.
Built by German engineering company the Linde Group, the project strips impurities from the gas, chills it to 260 degrees below zero and turns it into a liquid. Specially equipped garbage trucks burn it as fuel. The system can produce as many as 13,000 gallons of liquefied natural gas per day,,,
The idea of turning landfill gas into liquefied natural gas has been tried before, but the Altamont project is the world's largest..
New factory in Pittsburg is no pipe dream
(Posted 03/15/2010 By
Stephanie Brown)
Sparks flew at a new factory in Pittsburg on Monday, where a skeleton manufacturing crew christened a state-of-the art assembly line designed to shape and weld massive steel pipes used to transport oil and natural gas.
Everything about the new United Spiral Pipe plant is gargantuan, starting with the $130 million capital investment required to build a factory that will create 120 manufacturing jobs...
Why Is California Broke
(Posted 03/08/2010 By
Stephanie Brown)
- California has a horrible business climate that drives business elsewhere.
- California has an array of some of the highest tax rates in the nation.
- California is beholden to the unions, especially the teachers union and prison system, and at the municipal level to the police and fire unions.
- California hands out money with free services encouraging an influx of illegal aliens and an exodus of those wealthy enough and mobile enough to move.
National Coalition Launches Campaign to Restore (Green) ManufacturingJobs
(Posted 04/16/2009 By
Keith Sutton)
On April 15, the Apollo Alliance released a comprehensive roadmap for rebuilding U.S. manufacturing capacity to meet the clean energy needs of the future and to restore millions of American jobs.
Berkeley Lab to get $115M from recovery act
(Posted 03/24/2009 By
Keith Sutton)
The Department of Energy will give Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory $115.8 million from the U.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
This money will be spent upgrading the Advanced Light Source, a particle accelerator, and on building a new type of accelerator, the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator. The lab will also use the money to take down the Bevatron, an accelerator shut down in 1993....
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