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December 2007
Salt makers say ponds threatened
Lihue Garden Island - Lihue,HI,USA
Santos explained that water travels underground into wells about 4 feet deep. The salt makers transfer the water into beds made from black clay.
Prabhakaran lives more than 40 ft underground
Sify - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
Under these difficult circumstances, the LTTE's cadres in Base One Four had to survive on rice and dhal without salt, Adele says. ...
Construction begins on a decentralized wastewater
EcoWorld.com - Fair Oaks,CA,USA
With green cars and off-grid energy and water solutions, appropriate developments don't necessarily have to be within the footprint of existing cities,
Distance saves Gisborne
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand
Stresses and strains that had been building in the Pacific plate just over the horizon south-east from Gisborne suddenly shifted rocks about 40km below the ...
Tunnel-boring machine solves Gautrain tunnelling troubles
Engineering News (press release) - Garden View,South Africa
... problem that exists in the underground tunnel link between Rosebank and Johannesburg Park stations says Bombela turnkey contractor CEO Ian Thoms. ...
Underground Power Lines
KSBI 52 - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
Some say the solution is to put power lines underground. Glen Yaney, an Oklahoma City Resident, says, "The power lines need to go underground. ...
Commission reccommends underground transmission line in Stafford
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA
A State Corporation Commission (SCC) hearing examiner recommends approval of an experimental underground construction of a 230-kilovolt transmission line in ...
Underground waste disposal plan draws outcry
Houston Chronicle - United States
... on Wednesday as state officials listened to evidence concerning a Houston company's plan to use underground wells for industrial waste disposal. ...
Abandoned mine site being dug up to put out underground fire
WTOL - Toledo,OH,USA
AP - December 7, 2007 2:55 PM ET GORE, Ohio (AP) - A contractor has begun digging up some old mine property where a fire burning underground has kept part ...
2.5m vision to cut energy plants' C02 by piping gas into subsea rock
Scotsman - United Kingdom
The C02 would be injected into water-filled microscopic rock pores before eventually dissolving in underground water. Des Browne, the Scotland Secretary, ...
Campus tunnels safe for utilities, not playing
Indiana Statesman - IN,USA
Underground utility tunnels are also used at Purdue University where about seven miles of tunnel run under the campus, officials there said. ...
Fresco decorates underground mine tunnel
China Internet Information Center| - China
The 700 square meter frescos, painted with environmentally friendly paints on both sides of a major tunnel of Linhuan Coal Mine under the Huaibei Coal Mines ...
State's first emergency shelter being installed
Beckley Register-Herald (subscription) - Beckley,WV,USA
In the event of an emergency, miners trapped underground can seek protection in the shelters. The shelters provide at least 96 hours of breathable air,
Carbon Storage Gains Support
The Associated Press -
The work, on filters that separate CO2 from other gases, is part of an expanding global race to trap greenhouse pollutants and bury them deep underground, ...
Underground cables cuts as thieves try to steal metal
Town Crier - St. Neots,England,UK
Thieves attempted to steal hundreds of metres of underground cable at two locations on the same night. The incidents happened overnight on Monday and ...
Cameco reduces underground activities at Eagle Point
Globe and Mail - Canada
SASKATOON — Already plagued by flooding at the Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan, Cameco Corp. has temporarily reduced underground activities
'Would madam care to taste the cloud juice?'
The Observer - UK
So the pair of them went foraging around looking for a leak and instead discovered a borehole created in 1890, used for a well in 1919 and abandoned in the ...
November 2007
Storing Carbon Dioxide Deep In Earth May Be Safe Solution To ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
(2) The study gives a clear indication that carbon dioxide sequestered deep underground could also react quickly with ordinary rocks to become assimilated ...
Editorial: Tunnel under LI Sound is intriguing
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... who already has invested $250000 in a detailed engineering study of the tunnel's feasibility, the plan envisions an underground link across the Sound
Turkmenistan's tourism ambitions
BBC News - UK
In the middle of a windy, sprawling desert just outside the Turkmen capital Ashgabat lie the ruins of an ancient mosque. Hairpins and small toys are ...
Sustainable living off the power grid
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
"It mushroomed into 'we need to live off the grid, grow our own vegetables.' " At the same time, they were remodeling their existing house and planning a
Builders tap underground energy
The Register-Guard - Eugene,OR,USA
Geo-exchange systems, which use an electric pump and an underground loop of plastic pipe to capture energy from the earth, typically cost more than natural ...
Texas Firm Indicted for Disposing Hazwaste Underground
Environment News Service - USA
Their alleged misuse of an underground injection well may have contaminated drinking water. The men were arraigned Friday in US District Court in Houston. ...
Underground coal seam fire put out after 50 years in NW China
Xinhua - China
21 (Xinhua) -- An underground fire that has consumed more than 12.43 million tons of coal in northwest China has been extinguished after more than 50 years. ...
28 Trapped in Ukraine Mine; 70 Dead
The Associated Press -
One survivor described clambering over the bodies of his co-workers strewn along an underground rail track and navigating through blinding dust to escape. ...
Underground tunnels remain mysterious, enticing
Wesleyan Argus - Middletown,CT,USA
Rumors regarding the contents of the countless underground storage rooms abound. At least one theory about these rooms is true. The top floors of Judd Hall ...
Underground fire closes part of Wayne
Logan Daily News - Logan,OH,USA
"Right now everything is underground, so they have to get to it, do some probing, see the depth of the area, and get some insight on exactly what's going on ...
Sun to set up underground data center to save on power
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
The goal is to create an underground data center that will use up to 50% less power than a ground-level data center, the vendors claim.
Hidden Chinese Toilets to Emerge from Ground Next Year
Gizmodo.com - USA
[Spluch] BY JESUS DIAZ BY POLYPROG AT 03:26 PM BY JCOSTANTINO AT 03:28 PM Can't wait for them to retract underground with an occupant still inside
Local company ships first W.Va. mine shelter
Beckley Register-Herald (subscription) - Beckley,WV,USA
But for now, West Virginia is one of only two states that require underground mines to have rescue shelters. Since AL Lee is one of only five companies in
Underground cables preserve area of natural beauty
Hereford Times - Hereford,UK
By Anna Nalborczyk GOODRICH has become one of the first areas to benefit from a national pilot scheme where electricity cables are buried underground. ...
Jacksonville's Underground Tunnels
First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USA
By Joy Purdy I'm willing to wager (a gentleman's bet of course) that you've never known about the old tunnels running underground. ...
Going underground
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
While the long-term future of coal is being debated, both sides say that as long as we burn the fossil fuel, pumping the carbon dioxide underground is much ...
'Put cables underground'
Midloothian Today - Scotland,UK
In a letter to Scott Wilson Scotland Limited, the community council has urged the engineering firm to consider laying underground cables to carry ...
After rain, underground surprises, developers set city sights even ...
NewsOK.com (subscription) - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
Canfield also has faced some of the toughest challenges of record rain and unexpected underground utilities. Over the past couple weeks, Canfield has ...
Power lines going underground in Gettysburg
PennLive.com - Harrisburg,PA,USA
In an effort to remove utility poles from the Gettysburg National Military Park, around 1.25 miles of power lines are headed for the underground in a ...
(Mis)Understanding Green Products
BusinessWeek - USA
For example, there is currently no industrywide, specific standard on what qualifies—the materials, techniques, and process—as acceptable rammed-earth ...
Tim Davies Landscaping uses Schaffer 3150 front end loader
Ferret - Australia
... general digging work, loading soil, backfilling soil after planting palms, digging drainage trenches and lifting steel panels onto rammed earth walls.
NEW TUNNELING METHOD REDUCES TIME, COST, NOISE
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The new method makes it possible to apply methods used in creating underground tunnels to such junctures. With it, the first tunnel is excavated using a ...
October 2007
The road less travelled
Scotsman - United Kingdom
Psychogeographers follow leylines, or the routes of underground rivers, read graffiti, find metaphors, make connections. It's the lost art of wandering. ...
New development would be light at the end of the tunnel
WBIR-TV - Knoxville,TN,USA
A former Knoxville City Councilman wants an old underground walkway opened up to the public. Don Ferguson said opening the tunnel should be part of a bigger ...
Powerlines in beauty spot to be hidden
East Anglian Daily Times - Ipswich,England,UK
POWER lines which are spoiling beautiful countryside and marshes will be put underground - if enough money can be found to do the work.
WA miners shelter underground after fire
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Fifty-four miners have taken refuge in emergency shelters underground after a fire at a gold mine in the West Australian goldfields. ...
Gold Coast transport solution lies underground
Gold Coast News - Molendinar,Queensland,Australia
Underground traffic solutions have worked all over the world. The first leg of the London Underground was built in 1863. It now covers about 400km of track
Going off the grid
Brockville Recorder and Times - Ontario, Canada
Cornell now also plans to install large solar panels to go completely off the grid and, perhaps, even upload power to Hydro One. The utility is currently ...
Is energy solution beneath our feet?
ic Wales - United Kingdom
THE nightmare of digging coal underground, suffered by generations of Welsh colliers, could soon be a thing of the past with Wales tipped to benefit from a ...
Company Planning $70 Million Underground Storage Project
KFDM-TV News - Beaumont,Texas,USA
KFDM News has learned a Houston-based company is building an underground storage cavern to hold up to 20 million barrels of liquid hydrocarbons at the ...
Company will use underground cameras to target problem pipes
Boston Globe - United States
... will use miniature underground cameras and infrared aerial photography to identify areas that are leaking or could rupture, officials said yesterday. ...
Bangkok electric wires go underground
Nation Multimedia - Bangkok,Thailand
The National Energy Policy Committee yesterday approved the Metropolitan Electricity Authority's master plan to put electric wires underground. ...
Gold nuggets form deep underground
ScienceAlert - Australia
The research reveals the gold nuggets formed deep underground at high temperatures. "Previously it was assumed that gold nuggets formed in place, ...
Businesses upset over new gasoline tank law Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA By James Romoser In their quest to protect North Carolina's drinking water, state regulators are looking underground. A new state rule that will take effect ...
Feds nix funds for underground utilities
Manchester Journal - Manchester center,VT,USA
MANCHESTER - Town officials learned Wednesday that a $455000 grant that would have helped enabled the town to bury utility wires underground - a project ...
DEEP UNDERGROUND MILITARY BASES IN AMERICA
By sopangreene
It's the reality of the existence of DEEP UNDERGROUND MILITARY BASES. These Underground bases get prominent play in dark rumors circulating about captured extraterrestrials and alien technology. The fringe culture rumors of underground ...
Cause of fire in Colorado water tunnel investigated
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
When fire broke out deep underground at a hydroelectric plant in the Rockies, officials at the surface dropped a radio down to five trapped men in a tunnel ...
Funding a top concern for mine-training base
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Traces of soot also are visible here and there on training center buildings, a remnant of the dense smoke that an underground fire belched out of the Willow ...
A 'Boot Camp' for Miners
The Associated Press -
It's part of a nine-week program designed to provide more training than the 40 hours of basic health and safety training for underground miners that is ...
Female miners recall underground ordeal
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Puteng and Sekhamane were among the 3 200 trapped underground. When the pipe broke, the two women were working on the 95th level of the mine. ...
Trapped a mile underground, 3000 goldminers face grim wait for rescue
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Rescue workers were last night attempting to free 3000 workers trapped more than a mile underground in a South African gold mine. ...
Turning pond scum into profit
Globe and Mail - Canada
In some cases, the captured CO{-2} could be piped to mature oil fields and injected underground to enhance recovery, providing a revenue to offset the cost. ...
Geothermal interest rises with bills in NH, Washington
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA
At least one business is monitoring the progress of the bills with the hope of using government funding to help tap into the underground energy in the ...
A Solar Technology for Every Application
Alternative Energy Stocks - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) is seldome used in off grid homes to reduce up-front costs, because it tends not to work as well as flat plate collectors ...
Philippines power grid to be contracted out to private operator
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
But during abnormal operations, when, for example, parts of the grid are cut-off from the rest, different marginal prices will arise. .
Underground explosions force evacuations in the North End
WHDH-TV - Boston,MA,USA
BOSTON -- Firefighters responded to a series of underground explosions that sent smoke into the streets. Witnesses say that they saw shooting flames and ...
Dominion's power lines should be run underground
Fauquier Times-Democrat - Fauquier,VA,USA
We're entitled to ask, why can't Dominion run its power lines underground? Why can't it create power sources that don't involve irrevocable defacement of an ...
September 2007
Underground experiments test validity of geothermal energy supplies
Engineer Live - London,London,UK
In August, GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam, Germany's National Laboratory for Geosciences started a new series of experiments at its geothermal research ...
Underground cabling for Hazratganj
Times of India - India
It would be the second locality in the state capital to have underground cabling system. Till now, Kalidas Marg, housing the official residence of chief ...
Angry residents would pay extra charge to send power lines underground
Scotsman - United Kingdom
"I would now like to see an independent assessment being carried out to find out what the costs would be of putting the line underground. ...
Facing The Heat
Indian Express - New Delhi,India
A small worry is that if it escaped from underground or from a pipeline, the heavy, odourless gas may collect in a deep valley pocket, for example. ...
Mepa schedules the Underground Flour Mill, St Paul's Bay
Times of Malta - Valletta,Malta
One of seven underground flour mills constructed by the British Military Services during the Cold War period (1950s) as part of the Civil Defence measures. ...
Underground communication system a potential lifesaver
Gizmag - Victoria,Australia
... and easily be contacted with potentially life saving information about emergencies and evacuation routes in the event of accidents underground. ...
Indian Shores celebrates underground utilities
Tampa Bay Newspapers - Seminole,FL,USA
The project to put electric, telephone and cable television lines underground began in May 2005. Monday was declared pole eradication day by Indian Shores ...
Arch Coal Announces Band Mill Mine Named Nation's Safest ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
2 mine achieved the nation's best safety record in 2006 among all large underground coal mines in the United States, according to the Mine Safety and Health ...
Mumbai goes underground
Rediff - India
With dwindling open places in the city, especially for parking, the civic body is digging into underground spaces to accomodate the increasing number of
Investigation Into Underground Fire Could Take Months
WSLS.com - Roanoke,VA,USA
by Scott Leamon / WSLS NewsChannel 10 It could take at least three months for state investigators to find out how and why underground utility lines were ...
Tunnel vision
Kane County Chronicle - Geneva,IL,USA
... a 20-mile tunnel jutting west under roads, homes, workplaces, and farmland. Fermilab still is unsure of the legal procedure for buying land underground, ...
Dubai Metro Plans: One More Creek Tunnel
XPRESS - Dubai,Dubai,United Arab Emirates
He said it remains unclear if additional underground tunnels will be needed when this one is completed. The first underground tunnel crossed the creek in ...
Seoul to Have Underground Roads
Korea Times - South Korea
... United States, which constructed a 5.6 kilometer tunnel under the city, and the A86 in Paris, which includes an underground tunnel ring under the city.
Limestone is a buried Nebraska treasure
Omaha World-Herald (subscription) - Omaha,NE,USA
The new plant will sit directly south of the company's existing underground mine tunnel, which will no longer be used. Last year, 83 underground limestone ...
Crews Clean Up After Underground Fire
WBAL - Baltimore,MD,USA
Fire officials received reports of underground explosions and reports of at least four manhole covers being blown during the incident.
Part of road collapses into underground hole in Plumgrove
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation - Barbados
Officials of the Ministry of Public Works and members of the police, are investigating the partial collapse of a road at Plumgrove, Christ Church last night ...
Underground Power Lines for Johnston May Be Too Costly
KLFY - Lafayette,LA,USA
Billboards and power lines are often the usual suspects for causing clutter along most of Johnston Street. But a plan from the Lafayette Utilities System to ...
Veteran of underground coal mining has a story to tell
Evansville Courier & Press (subscription) - Evansville,IN,USA
Mike Guillerman worked 18 years as an underground coal miner, surviving roof falls and track accidents that twice knocked him unconscious. ...
Chinatown's urban legend
Fresno Bee (subscription) - Fresno,CA,USA
The grand prize for the Chinatown Jazz Fest raffle will be a guided tour for four of "Underground Chinatown." The tunnels are accessed through backrooms of
August 2007
Fixit: Mystery Cave isn't flooded but it's drippy
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
And right now, there's a lot of that action in Mystery Cave, which was formed by an ancient version of the local Root River. "It's very wet," Farmer said. ...
Air Pack Thefts Concern Mine Industry
The Associated Press -
(AP) -- Underground coal miners are facing a new and apparently growing safety threat: the theft of emergency air packs. Authorities say the devices have ...
Is burying power lines underground the answer?
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
If the cables are only a metre or so underground then people would presumably be exposed to a very much higher field strength than when the lines are ...
Roscoe Subdivision Home to Sinkholes
WREX-TV - Rockford,IL,USA
Call it the mystery of the sinkholes. A few years ago sinkholes started popping up in one Roscoe subdivision. They were filled with dirt and appeared to be
Sonar scan will aim to get to bottom of Big Lake's woes
Wilmington Morning Star - Wilmington,NC,USA
City Manager David Lewis said discovering any sinkholes in Big Lake has become the first priority on rehabilitating the lake. A Wilmington engineering and ...
Call 4 Action: Penn Hills Neighborhood Overrun By Sinkholes
Pittsburgh Channel.com - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Several smaller sinkholes developed and a utility pole in the area also began to tilt. So, who's going to pay to get it fixed? Daniel Moralse said he's ...
Albany Concerned About Power
The Bahama Journal - Nassau,Bahamas
Mr. Forbes said the corporation is moving toward installing more underground power lines as opposed to above ground lines, which are more susceptible to ...
Caves draw adventurers into the dark
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
If that sounds like the passion of someone who would just as soon be underground as on land, you've got the right impression of Slay.
Underground cracks found in Montreal
United Press International - USA
The Green Line was shut down Friday and the area evacuated after cracks were discovered in a large slab in the city's underground corridors, The Montreal ...
JPSCo Rules Out Underground Lines
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service - Jamaica
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo) has ruled out running its electricity transmission lines underground. Speaking with JIS News, President and Chief ...
Underground utilities on radar
Times of India - India
BANGALORE: In June, BBMP drew flak from Bescom for damaging the underground electric cables during road widening along Race Course Road. ...
~~Underground
By Devilstower
Before you go to work in an underground mine in the US, you are required to go through a course of training on mine safety. It's not a long course. Most of the time, it takes about half a day. Miners are taught about the gear the carry,
Pyongyang Subway Submerged in Water
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
It is connected to underground military facilities and as a result, even plays the role of bunker. The entrance to the platforms are 60~80tons thick and ...
AROUND JAPAN/ ASO, Kumamoto Prefecture: Hope springs eternal for ...
Asahi Shimbun - Tokyo,Japan
"Maybe the 1958 eruption of Mount Aso and subsequent earthquakes caused the underground water vein to change." This year, the children plan to measure the
Excavator fined for damaging underground pipelines
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Talerico Construction Inc. agreed to immediately pay a $15000 penalty for damaging Puget Sound Energy's natural gas pipelines and underground electricity ...
Now, power cables go underground
Hindu - Chennai,India
The State Government has evolved a policy of putting in place underground electrical cables in all the six Corporations. Accordingly, the work in Madurai is ...
Teton County Looking To New Grid System
KIFI - Idaho Falls,ID,USA
First off, the grid system in Driggs has been around longer than the county has, and street names are a part of history. Second, giving out new addresses to ...
Radio Lifeline
ScienceAlert - Australia
CSIRO research director Dr Jay Guo says that to use the same transmitter system from underground for the return signal would, of course, be impractical.
Moscow Goes Underground
Moscow News - Russia
This hole reached a depth of approximately one-and-a-half meters underground. The capital's administration, together with the Emergency Control Ministry,
In pictures: Utah mine rescue
BBC News - UK
Six miners have been trapped underground at the Crandall Canyon Mine near Huntington, Utah, since Monday 6 August. Part of a tunnel caved in on Monday. ...
Proposal for under-mountain Metrolink station raises questions
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
They would reach the Metrolink platform on elevators cored through a mountain to an already-built rail tunnel 100 yards below. The concept is unique, ...
Source of New York Steam Blast Is a Literal Mystery
IEEE Spectrum - New York,NY,USA
The ancient Romans developed a system of steam pipes to heat their homes and baths. Later, Europeans adopted the technique. And in 1877, inspired by the ...
Hospital laundry to explore underground well
Laundry and Cleaning News - Sidcup,Kent,UK Water authorities in Scotland are investigating the possibility of washing hospital laundry using water from an underground well. ...
A megawatt saved is a `negawatt' earned
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
By reducing its overall electricity use by 20 per cent, the retail chain was able to take 10 megawatts of "load" off the grid - what you might call ...
Cheap, Superefficient Solar
Business Day - Nigeria
The technology could soon make solar power as cheap as electricity from the grid. The idea of concentrating sunlight to reduce the size of solar cells--and ...
Vital Alert Technologies Inc.: Through-The-Earth Communication(TM ...
WM Experts (press release) - Inverness,FL,USA The mine consists of non-flammable limestone with a tunnel height of about 10 feet and an overburden of up to 370 feet. The test, conducted over a 3-day
Six Utah miners missing after earthquake collapses tunnel
NEWS.com.au - Australia
Sheriff's officials were not able to provide information on the number of workers underground at the time of the collapse. However Emery County Sheriff ...
New 3150 series heavy duty loader available from Schaffer Loaders
Ferret - Australia
Metal sheets, on top of rammed earth walls, feature a coral design, which was scanned from actual coral and laser cut into the sheets. ...
Free tours of green buildings in Norfolk
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norfolk,England,UK
They use principles such as passive ventilation, earth shelter-ing, rammed-earth construction, solar orientation and thermal massing to conserve and store ...
July 2007
Storm sparks trouble, sends fire shooting from downtown manhole cover
York Dispatch - York,PA,USA
The Saturday evening thunderstorm that dumped about 11/2 inches of rain on parts of the county also caused the underground explosion that closed streets in
Underground explosion sparks outages
Royal Oak Daily Tribune - Royal Oak,MI,USA Austerberry called it an underground power failure that could have created sufficient pressure to blow off a manhole cover. Power was restored within 3 1/2
Will underground fad cost the earth?
Camden New Journal - London,UK
A spiralling number of home-owners who want to expand their properties by digging underground has promp-ted calls for legislation
City's power lines to go underground
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam
Underground power lines would be safer, stabler and easier to maintain, Tin said. They would be less vulnerable to lightning strikes or collapse, ...
Power struggle
Joliet Herald News - Joliet,IL,USA
With a loud bang, a jet of flame and a billow of smoke, an underground explosion rocked downtown Aurora on Monday as the early-morning traffic had just ...
Are we safe? *Manhattan underground explosion prompts
Cecil Whig - MD,USA
The explosion left a crater in the ground and closed buildings for several blocks around. There are no steam pipes here, but winding under downtown Elkton's ...
It's tough to build a subway in shifting Amsterdam Houston Chronicle - United States The solution: 7000 mirrors hung in clusters of three on buildings along the 2.4 miles of the route that's underground. Infrared beams, shined on each mirror ...
A Scare From Underground
New York Times - United States
On the other hand, it was an uneasy reminder that the city's usually reliable infrastructure includes a complicated underground nervous system, mostly about
City going underground with latest stormwater detention area
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
By Sarah Goldfarb The city's first underground stormwater detention area is expected to be completed by mid-August beneath Edison Middle School's football ...
News Analysis: Why does Kuwait keep its oil reserves secret?
Xinhua - China
Generally, proven suggests about a 90 percent chance - all conditions being favorable - of the oil actually being pumped up from underground and sold on the ...
Early hours explosion causes power cut
Bridgwater Mercury - Bridgwater,Somerset,UK
By Lloyd Vaughan ABOUT 90 Bridgwater homes were left without power on Sunday (July 15) after an electrical fault caused an underground explosion so powerful
'Check for hidden internal water leaks' - WSC
Malta Independent Online - Malta
Forty per cent of hidden internal leaks, the WSC said, were discovered in buried or underground water pipes, while the remaining 10 per cent were leaks from
US looks for lessons in Boston's "Big Dig"
Reuters - USA
DiPaolo's view reflects the conflicted emotions in Boston toward the costliest public works project in US history a year after cement fell from a tunnel ...
Stevens Pass rejected for underground lab
Seattle Times - United States
The plan would have used the Pioneer Tunnel, dug in the 1920s, as an access and hauling route for crews constructing the Cascade Tunnel rail route.
Sinkhole rears its head again
Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville,VA,USA
... of Transportation crew would temporarily cover the hole with steel plates, then tunnel in from the side of the road and replace the underground pipe. ...
Stafford County Residents Fight For Underground Power Lines
NBC 4.com - Washington,DC,USA
However, residents said the power line would be an eyesore, and they have begun pushing for an underground power line as an alternative.
Our view: Bury those power lines
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA
The latest report says there's not enough evidence to show putting lines underground is cost-effective. Even though many areas, including Viera in Brevard ...
Officials seek underground solution to power lines
Northwest Herald - Crystal Lake,IL,USA
"Where things are at right now, ComEd's underground power lines are in conflict with our roadway expansion project and we're working with them right now to ...
Burying power under research
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA
"Without consideration of aesthetics, no study reviewed concludes that wholesale conversion of overhead electric distribution lines to underground can be
Brother says routine well known for entering underground area
Hamilton Spectator - Ontario, Canada
Gauthier, 52, and an unidentified 33-year-old Brampton co-worker, were discovered unconscious in an underground chamber at Third Line and North Service Road
Underground flood cracks school road
Lancashire Evening Post - Preston,England,UK
Thousands of gallons of rain water pouring through an underground pipe has left huge cracks in a road used by children going to a Preston school. ...
Electric utilities to study new solar technology
Reuters - USA
The first phase of the project will provide expertise and technical analysis to help utilities make decisions about concentrated solar technology through
Specialised technology imported for underground tunnelling
Engineering News (press release) - Garden View,Eastern Cape,South Africa
An 885-t tunnel boring machine (TBM), which will be used for tunnelling in the construction of the Gautrain rapid-rail link, is scheduled to arrive in South ...
June 2007
Buying Real Estate in Victoira BC - Danger of underground oil ...
By Anders
When purchasing Real Estate here in Victoria, you might just run in to an underground oil tank. Underground oil storage tanks have been a common product here in Victoria, and is still very common in many old homes. ...
Going underground
Andalusia Star-News - Andalusia,AL,USA
By Andrew Garner A portion of South Three Notch was closed to traffic Friday as work continued on the sidewalk and installation of underground utility lines ...
Fuel leak cuts off thousands of phones
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
By Clayton Barnes An underground fuel leak from rusted storage tanks at a petrol station damaged cables and left thousands without telephones for more than ...
Underground power line bound for county
Sherwood Park News - Sherwood Park,Alberta,Canada
The AESO also presented options to run the line up the already buffered transportation utility corridor alongside Highway 216 or to run a line underground ...
Underground 'toaster' kills grass
Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK But the scorched grass has been caused by a hidden heatwave - generated by an electricity substation below ground. Earlier this year, workmen drilled a .
High Anxiety Over Utility Poles
Hartford Courant - United States
Korzon said that when she moved to the road, the existing 57-foot utility poles were largely hidden by trees. Durham residents also are angry that the power
EDITORIAL: Deadly explosion at spa
Asahi Shimbun - Tokyo,Japan
... contained in underground water under the pressure of the earth. Hot spring water is pumped together with natural gas, which has the danger of explosion. ...
Discovery of Darfur underground lake spurs "1000 wells"
afrol News - Oslo,Norway
The initiative is based on the discovery, by the Boston University team, of an ancient underground mega lake in northern Darfur. ..
Underground cabling work by GHMC makes mess of Laad Bazar road
Hindu - Chennai,India
The road dug up for laying underground cables has become impassable with ditches and deep cuts marking its entire length. It was in March that the GHMC took
Cost of replacing underground power line frustrates consumer
KBSD - Dodge City,KS,USA
(AP) - Toni Dudley lost the power in her Lawrence home last month and learned her underground power line had gone bad. She also learned she would be ...
Ancient home has answers underground
Vail Daily News - Vail,CO,USA
EAGLE COUNTY -- One of the oldest archaeological sites ever unearthed in Colorado was discovered on a sagebrush plateau in northern Eagle County 20 years ago ...
* Underground power project complete
Times Online - Auckland - New Zealand
"Not only have all overhead power and Telecom lines been placed underground, but new street lighting has been installed, water mains replaced and street
Kraft to lease 400000 square feet underground
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
Kraft Foods and Springfield Underground have reached agreement for Kraft to lease 400000 square feet of refrigerated warehouse space, Kraft said today.
Underground Solutions finds niche with 'trenchless' sewer ...
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The Bradford City Water Authority hired Underground Solutions Inc., an infrastructure technology and pipeline rehabilitation company based in Cranberry, ..
Geothermal bill would establish research sites
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Now, some lawmakers are pushing for an increase in research and development into the technology. US Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, is sponsoring a bill ...
Watering system goes underground
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
By KATIE MICHEL Pedestrians tired of being drenched by sprinklers might catch a break thanks to an underground drip irrigation system offered by Dusty's ...
Underground lines means fewer area power poles Wahpeton Daily News - Wahpeton,ND,USA Dakota Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc., received a grant through FEMA to replace power poles with underground line. The two projects will consist of seven ...
Top-Secret $510 Million Ground Zero Museum Wallows in Grief
Bloomberg - USA
An atrium links the pavilion to the museum's orientation lobby underground. In Arad's design, this room led to galleries that wrapped the tower footprints ...
Sewer lines being moved to attack underground fire
CBS 21 - Harrisburg,PA,USA
(AP) - Officials plan to reroute more than a mile of sewer lines because of an underground fire that has been burning for nearly three years in the Olyphant ...
Mystery of the underground oil tank
Upstate House - NY,USA
While trying to determine why a patch of my lawn was dying, I discovered the home's original underground heating oil tank. This was not disclosed to me when ...
Japan at higher risk of disaster amid aging, more skyscrapers and ...
International Herald Tribune - France
TOKYO: Japan's vulnerability to natural disasters is increasing as skyscrapers mushroom in cities, shopping malls go underground and the population ages, ...
ATC underground power line plans cut, ruled "impractical"
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
Constructing a portion of a controversial power line underground along the Beltline Highway is "impractical" and will not be recommended, ...
UW in the running to build $300 million underground lab
KNDO/KNDU - Yakima,WA,USA
SEATTLE (AP) - The University of Washington is still in the running to build an underground physics lab. The possible site is the old Pioneer Tunnel at ...
Close Deep Tunnel
Chicago Reader - Chicago,USA
A series of 50 “eco-boulevards” spaced every half mile from Rogers Park to Roseland would run east-west from Lake Michigan to the subcontinental divide ...
Power through human waste
Building.co.uk (subscription) - UK
Building can reveal the GLA is in advanced talks with Thames Water on using sewage converted into biogas to supply electricity and heat to London's ...
Helsinki drafting world's first underground master plan
Newsroom Finland - Helsinki,Finland
Helsinki's city planning committee on Thursday held a meeting over what is thought to be the world's first underground master plan. ...
Plot creates new fear
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
On Saturday, he learned that there was a potentially more dangerous threat hidden underground -- a pipeline carrying jet fuel beneath the neighborhood to ...
Tube trains to be fitted with blocks of ice to cool down passengers
Daily Mail - UK
Air, chilled by passing it over the ice, would be pumped into the carriages when the trains are underground to keep temperatures down.
Tunnel as tomb for radioactive waste hits wall San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA "We don't believe any metal will last longer than 500 years underground at Yucca Mountain," Loux said. In cool, cavelike alcoves branching off the tunnel, ...
May 2007
Village buries dream of underground power lines
West Island Chronicle - Pointe-Claire,QC,Canada
Quebec offered to subsidize part of a project to remove hydro poles along Ste. Anne Street and connect businesses to an underground electrical system. ...
Methane blast hits Siberian coal mine where more than 200 were ...
The Northwest Florida Daily News - Fort Walton Beach,FL,USA
AP. MOSCOW (AP) - A methane explosion tore through a coal mine in southern Siberia, killing 38 miners and injuring seven others, emergency officials said ...
New York City Plans Underground Superconducting Power Grid
By al fin(al fin)
A lot of infrastructure that takes up space above ground could be better placed underground. In this earlier Al Fin posting, Columbus, Ohio's project for placing superconducting electrical cable underground was discussed--and this link ...
Public power, underground
San Francisco Bay Guardian - San Francisco,CA,USA
"In 15 to 20 years' time, we would have an electric grid that's underground and owned by the city," Daly told the Guardian. ...
Chronicling an Underground Inferno
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
The locus of the tragedy is Centralia, Pa., where an underground coal seam fire (a seam is like a vein) has been burning for more than four decades. ...
Robot cable crawler detects underground damage
CNN - USA
(PopSci.com) -- Burying power cables underground has uncluttered the streets and kept lights on through storms, but water seepage, natural disasters, ...
’Solar Powers Time to Shine?
AMERICAN.COM - Washington,DC,USA
That is, only certain places can sustain hydroelectric dams (or wind farms, or geothermal reservoirs, etc.), and energy sources generally need to be ...
Energy company considering first underground emission storage
9NEWS.com - Denver,CO,USA
DENVER (AP) - Xcel Energy is considering building a power plant that converts coal to gas and captures carbon emissions for underground storage. ...
NYC drinking water plant going underground
Water Technology Online - Latham,NY,USA
Most of the plant is being built on four levels underground, beneath a golf driving range. It will be constructed in concrete covering a footprint area of
Ala Wai Sewer Repair Project Making Progress Hawaii Reporter - Kailua,HI,USA
Contractors have finished boring the second wastewater tunnel under the Ala Wai Canal and Kaiolu Street in Waikiki. The million-dollar microtunneling ...
Bowen Working Underground In Indy
Associated Construction Publications - Norcross,GA,USA Previously crews had installed two 8-inch-diameter, insulated pipes through the tunnel — one for hot water supply and one for hot water return
Underground and underwater power
Engineer Live - London,London,UK
ABB has secured a $54-million order for an underground and underwater power link that will connect Denmark’s existing grids for the first time and help ...
Underground Bathrooms Unearthed in Scranton
WNEP-TV - Scranton,PA,USA
Underground bathrooms have been unearthed as part of the courthouse renovations. The were as much a work of functional art as the buildings above them.
Plumbing Staunton's underground
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA
With little encouragement, he reminisced about the neighborhood that once stood here — and what still lies underground. "I remember them tearing down the ...
MSHA says lightning following underground cable most likely caused ... San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA However, he said MSHA should draft emergency regulations requiring miners to leave underground mines when lightning storms approach.
Underground power lines mean water troubles Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA The proposal to install underground utilities has merit aesthetically and moreover, would provide protection from severe storms that ravage Florida. ...
Architects building bridge to students
New Jersey Herald - Newton,NJ,USA
The winning design also included such features as a grass roof, solar film and bamboo beams. Prior to the competition and final design, Kaepler said the ...
Silence on geothermal deafening
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Heat is then extracted from the water to produce steam that can be used on its own or, if hot enough, to generate electricity. ...
Just how common are sinkholes?
Meadville Tribune - Meadville,PA,USA
The recent appearance of a sinkhole in the backyard of a residence in Beacon brought to light the potential problems that long-abandoned underground mines ...
Ranger dug into mining history
Montclarion - Montclair,CA,USA
John Waters, manager of the underground mining museum at Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve in Antioch. Waters is retiring after 30 years on the job
NSTAR Energizes Underground Transmission Line
ElectricNet (press release) - Horsham,PA,USA Boston, MA - NSTAR has officially flipped the switch on its massive underground transmission project, easing congestion in the regional power grid and ...
Demolition Unearths Surprises
Associated Construction Publications - Norcross,GA,USA
"There were underground storage tanks, diesel range organics, foundry sands, linseed oil, and powered lead. It seemed like every time we stuck a bucket in ...
April 2007
Students exploring tunnels arrested
Bryan College Station Eagle - Bryan-College Station,TX,USA
The men - three juniors and a freshman - were caught leaving the underground tunnel system just after midnight Saturday, an officer wrote in an affidavit.
TAPPING UNDERGROUND ENERGY Complex pump system provides both ...
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
The well-hidden secret of the house is inside, or rather 200 feet under it. Unlike people who heat their houses with natural gas or electricity ,Corson ...
The bins that disappear underground
This is London - London,England,UK
A Plastics company believes it may have come up with a solution to the problem of unhealthy bins - put them underground. ...
Underground tunnel to link Alaska, Russia
Kazinform - Astana,Kazakhstan
MOSCOW. April 25. (AP) -- For more than a century, entrepreneurs and engineers have dreamed of building a tunnel connecting the eastern and western ...
Underground power lines: Worth the cost?
United Press International - USA
In areas where the lines have already been installed underground, reliability is much higher and after storms and hurricanes repair costs were much less. ...
Housing project taps wood-waste energy
Business Edge - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
ft. site via underground pipes, eliminating the need for in-suite hot-water tanks and heating equipment, such as a furnace. "It's going to reduce greenhouse ...
Benjamin Franklin Medal awarded for Sudbury Neutrino Observatory ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... underground science laboratory, expanding the existing SNO research laboratory 2 km underground in INCO's Creighton mine near Sudbury, Ontario. ...
Mine Shelter Plans Submitted
WBOY-TV - Clarksburg,WV,USA
Failure to comply with the underground shelter requirement could result in fines and possibly mine closure. But not everyone believes West Virginia should ...
Who'll pay to put power lines underground? Everyone, under FPL ...
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
Under the plan, all of FPL's 4.4 million customers would pay to help some communities put their lines underground. And low-income communities may not be ...
Kentucky coal mine widows prove powerful as lobbyists
Brandon Sun - Brandon,Manitoba,Canada
It requires that extra air packs be stored underground and miners be provided more frequent and extensive training in using them
Heathrow Express drives Wi-Fi underground
Tech - London,UK
This is the first time that WiMAX technology has been used underground for high-speed communications anywhere in the world. WiMAX provides a single streamed ...
CAN members go underground
NorthernLife.ca - Sudbury,ON,Canada
A dozen citizens donned miners’ gear – the full complement - and embarked on the underground tour seated in jeeps provided for the occasion. ...
Was There a Ghost? No, Just a Tunnel at the Latest Subway ...
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
A host of dignitaries went underground on Thursday for a groundbreaking ceremony for the Second Avenue subway in a never-used tunnel built for the ...
’Darfurs underground lake discoverer to visit Sudan
Sudan Tribune - Sudan
April 19, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — The discoverer of the underground lake in North Darfur, Professor Faroq Al-Baz, invited to visit Sudan in the coming days, ...
®…Water Technology talks with David Rude Jr.
Water Technology Online - Latham,NY,USA
Salt for deicing is typically the least pure in terms of sodium chloride and is typically a mined rock salt or lower-purity solar salt. ...
CITY'S BEST BUILDING IS HIDDEN FROM SIGHT
Express & Echo - Exeter,England,UK
Dr John Salvatore, a historic design officer, has put forward Exeter's underground Roman Bathhouse to win the accolade. "As far as I'm concerned, ...
Sewage plant to be hidden under park
China Daily - China
SHENZHEN: Construction started this week on what is expected to be the country's largest underground sewage treatment plant.
The Secret Life of DC's Underground
DCist.com - Washington,DC,USA
Last night NBC News investigated dangerous working conditions for the 10 men, known as "tunnel rats" who spend their days in the underground system.
Underground Cable Causes Fire
Hartford Courant - Hartford,CT,USA
Connecticut Light & Power spokesman Mitch Gross said an underground cable burned out and is being replaced. He said no customers were affected. ...
Searching for Natural Gas Underground in CNY
NewsChannel 9 WSYR - Syracuse,NY,USA
Preble (WSYR-TV) - What's being held underground is the subject of a big exploration project, happening now in Central New York. ...
Tunnel crack is no easy repair
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Engineers in the past week have huddled over blueprints in an underground complex that also can serve as a safe haven for visiting presidents in the event
Lindsay man tunnels through history
Lindsay Daily Post - Lindsay,Canada
Parallel to the main tunnel were several smaller ones about 600 feet in length. "You could walk from the factory, to the main tunnel, to the underground
Tunnel vision
Welland Tribune - Canada
As the project progresses, the only signs that the work is occurring underground will be the access holes dug every 200 meters to provide ventilation,
PHNS Migrates to Underground Facility
Web Host Industry Review - USA
PHNS says the new data center for PHNS' hospital customers is located 85 feet underground in a solid limestone cave in the SpringNet Underground facility ...
Emergency underground radios not as safe as believed
Computeractive - London,UK
The Airwave service supplied by O2 was installed into the underground this year to ensure that a repeat of July 7 2005, where firemen, ambulance crew and ...
15 months after nearly dying in West Virginia mine, sole survivor ...
International Herald Tribune - France
2, 2006, explosion and prolonged entrapment at the underground coal mine near Buckhannon. He inhaled carbon monoxide for more than 41 hours, ...
Retrofit program is well grounded in reality
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
A geoexchange system circulates a glycol solution underground through a grid of tubing. It extracts heat from the ground in the winter and stores it there
Electrifying villages with sunlight
Andhra Cafe - Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh,India
With their newly acquired expertise, they installed a five-kilowatt solar power plant in the Rural Technology Park. They also set up solar panels,
India, US to promote clean power tech
Financial Express - Bombay,India
Grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are expected to be producing more than eight times as much power as they did in 2002. ...
40-year-old buried parking garage is a success story
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - Atlanta,GA,USA
"It went extremely well until the new Underground opened and put in a food court," Lewis said of the project that opened in 1989.
Geothermal could supply 10% of our energy by 2050
Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia
THE Federal Government believes that geothermal energy could meet up to 10 per cent of Australia's electricity consumption by 2050. .
March 2007
Study Confirms Biodiesel Safe for Underground Tanks
Wisconsin Ag Connection - Marshfield,WI,USA
A new study by the Steel Tank Institute confirms that biodiesel and biodiesel blends are safe for use in underground steel storage tanks.
Major earthquake strikes sparsely populated area in western China
The Canadian Press - BEIJING
Meanwhile, a magnitude-five earthquake jolted an area of southwestern China's Yunnan province close to the border with Myanmar, the official Xinhua News ...
Earthquake strikes northern Chile
BBC News - UK
A 6.1-magnitude quake has hit northern Chile close to the border with Bolivia, the US Geological Survey reports. The tremor, whose epicentre was 145km (90
Moderate quake rocks border area of southwest China, Myanmar
Xinhua - China
KUNMING, March 21 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted the border region between southwestern China and Myanmar Friday
Strong earthquake, aftershocks hit near Tibetan border
Earthtimes - London,UK
Washington - A magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook the area near the border between China's Xinjiang province and the Tibet Autonomous Region early Friday and ...
Moderate quake hits Chile-Argentina border
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Washington - A moderate earthquake hit a remote border region in the mountains between Chile and Argentina but there were no immediate reports of casualties ...
Oil Tank? More Like a Subterranean Monster
New York Times - United States
In the latter are those hidden systems, the pipes in the walls, the wiring, all that lies concealed between the sheathing and the Sheetrock.
Utilities, consumers face challenges presented by renewable energy
Modesto Bee - Modesto,CA,USA
The district is a few months away from hooking into a system at Fiscalini Cheese Co. that will burn methane derived from cow manure. ...
Southampton moves toward requiring underground cables
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... the town board Friday adopted a resolution to consider a bill that would require all utilities to install new cables underground. ...
108 coal miners die in Russia after blast at Siberia mine
The Militant - New York,NY,USA
... killed in a methane gas explosion at the Ulyanovskaya mine in Siberia, Russia, March 19. About 200 workers were underground at the time of the blast. ...
Proposal would put utility lines underground
ThisWeekNews - Columbus Area,OH,USA
He's also hoping for a different outcome from the last time he proposed placing utilities underground as part of an improvement project. Back on Feb. ...
More underground walks
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
Many cities around the world offer underground or skyway systems that insulate visitors from the harsh elements: heat, cold, pollution, honking cars.
Workers lower the boom
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA “It's not perfect,” Tom Mebane, an independent blasting supervisor under contract to the county, said of the explosion. “It only takes a piece like that to ...
Cut electrical line causes outage
San Gabriel Valley Tribune - West Covina,CA,USA
Southern California Edison spokesman Steven Conroy said people reported hearing an explosion around 10:30 am and about 1000 customers lost their power ...
Image: Pumping wind power underground
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
This diagram illustrates how the Iowa Stored Energy Park plans to use compressed air to store power generated by wind turbines. Electricity from the wind ...
Wells closer to nuclear blast site
Grand Junction Sentinel - Grand Junction,CO,USA Project Rulison was an 8426-foot-deep underground explosion of a 43-kiloton nuclear bomb in 1969 meant to free gas reserves. After the blast, the Energy
200 gallons of home-heating oil spills into lake
Newark Star Ledger - Newark,NJ,USA
A corroded, underground, home-heating oil tank is suspected as the source of a 200-gallon spill into Lake Parsippany today. ...
Underground playgrounds
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
Some of the caverns travel underground for miles. If you're the type who is uncomfortable being stuck in an elevator, exploring show caves and caverns may ...
Miners killed in coal mine explosion buried in Russia. Many need ...
Pravda - Moscow,Russia
A total of 108 miners and coal workers were killed in the blast, which occurred 885 feet underground; 93 other miners made it to the surface. ...
Underground lines not feasible
Pincher Creek Echo - Pincher Creek,Alberta,Canada
If the option is there, most people would rather see a transmission line go underground rather than stretch across above ground from Pincher Creek to
Innovative updates for storm cellars
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
When not housing refugees from severe weather, the 10-foot-wide, hand-dug cellar, with its weighty wooden doors and steps leading underground, ...
We dig CeBIT's resplendent underground bunkers
Inquirer - Harrow,Middlesex,UK
The technical name for it is Underground Container for Active Telecom Equipment, but bunker fits in much better with the mountain fortress motif geeks seem ...
Technology & Sunlight
EcoWorld.com - Fair Oaks,CA,USA
Alternative technologies in general support the design of each home or building being adapted to collect and store solar, wind, or even geothermal energy. ...
A blast's aftermath
York Daily Record - York,PA,USA
The explosion was linked to a crack in an underground natural gas line. Ramsay has been busy dealing with lawyers, insurance companies, finding a new home ...
Hundreds evacuated after underground blaze causes CO poisoning in NY
JEMS.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
In Queens, smoke from another underground electrical fire caused 12 people to be evacuated from their homes near 41st Avenue and Kissena Boulevard at 3:50 ...
Russia mine blast kills 61, more still underground
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
Almost 40 miners remained underground several hours after the explosion at the Ulyanovskaya mine, in Siberia's Kemerovo region. Media quoted rescue workers ...
Orbs of Power! Solar Cells Go Spherical!
Green Options blog - Berkeley,CA,USA
... including a great interview with one of the inventors. While the world may becoming more flat, it's nice to see solar technology embracing a new shape.
W.Va. approves 5 emergency shelters for underground mines
Penn Live - Harrisburg,PA,USA
West Virginia became the first — and only — state to require shelters in underground coal mines last year. All are required to provide airtight shelters ...
State expects to approve first coal mine shelters
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
2, 2006, explosion, but 11 others were trapped underground and died of carbon monoxide poisoning. A 13th miner was rescued after more than 40 hours ...
Aesthetic Street Lights: 19th Century Design, 21st Century Solar Power
Green Options blog - Berkeley,CA,USA
The new light incorporates solar technology and LED lighting in a fixture that is reminiscent of 19th century gas lamps. On either side of the lamp post are ...
Business Leaders Still Hoping for Underground Tunnel
WTOP - Washington,DC,USA
"Until construction begins we're going to continue to fight for a tunnel," says Scott Monett, president of Tyson's Tunnel.org. ..
The Western underground
Western Courier (subscription) - Macomb,IL,USA... pipes run through the large underground tunnels that are connected to the heating plant located north of the art gallery. The main tunnel runs from the
Underground nitrogen system keeps China moving
Gasworld.com (subscription) - Cornwall,UK
Chinese engineers have used an innovative underground nitrogen system to build China's recently opened Beijing-Lhasa railway line. ...
TRUE: NIU has underground tunnels
Northern Star Online - DeKalb,IL,USA
Everyday students are walking above an underground tunnel system that runs across campus; however, the tunnels are not intended for people to use.
San Vicente Pipeline Update
Scripps Ranch Civic Association - San Diego,CA,USA
The pipeline is being built in a tunnel at a depth ranging from 50 to 600 feet underground and will not pass directly under any homes. ...
Group pushing to replace viaduct with tunnel
KOMO - Seattle,WA,USA
The group named 'Waterfront for All' is campaigning to move traffic through an underground hybrid tunnel and surface streets, even if the option costs
February 2007
~‘’Manhole covers remain a major hazard in the region
Examiner.com - USA
... streets South West on the National Mall after an underground explosion blew manhole covers off and caused traffic congestion in Washington on Wednesday. ...
Manhole explosion in Englewood ties up traffic
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
An underground explosion on a busy artery in Englewood sent asphalt chunks flying into the air and shattered shop windows. No injuries were reported in the ...
Pothole plague is 'at its worst'
ic SurreyOnline.co.uk - Surrey,England,UK
MOTORISTS say they are coming to grief in a series of deep potholes plaguing the roads of Chipstead. Brian Edes,76, of Outwood Lane,claims that eight cars ...
Why not put all power lines underground?
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
Electric lines in many neighborhoods are underground, keeping them protected from buildups of ice and snow that downed many wires over the weekend,
Hanford pilot project uses electricity to map underground leaks
The Columbian - Vancouver,WA,USA
Radioactive and chemical wastes from Cold War weapons plutonium processing were stored in 149 underground steel tanks at Hanford. ...
SCC wants data on underground option
Centreville Times - Centreville,VA,USA
However, the commission also said it needs more information -including on an underground line -- before allowing Dominion Virginia Power to proceed with ...
Utility workers injured in explosion
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA
... a piece of equipment in an underground vault on Newport Coast Drive north of Coast Highway, Edison officials said. The explosion about 4:06 this morning ...
’Israels Secret Sand Stealers
The Media Line - New York,NY,USA
The sands also play an important role in filtering pollutants and preventing them from reaching underground water sources. ...
Heavy power demand pushing underground equipment to its limits
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
The increasing demand for electricity statewide is pushing thousands of miles of aging underground equipment to its limits, particularly in hard-to-reach ..
One person dies in explosion in downtown Waterbury
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
An underground transformer explosion killed one electrical contractor and injured two others Wednesday, Mayor Michael J. Jarjura said. ...
Terraprobe finds what's lurking below
Journal of Commerce - Burnaby,BC,Canada
... GPR was used to locate the tunnel. “It really just shows up as an underground cavity,” he says of the scan diagram that pinpointed it. ...
More WTC steel discovered underground; experts say to expect more
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
NEW YORK -- Experts who investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center say there is likely much more steel from the buildings buried underground than ...
Officer Injured In Manhole Explosion
Ohio News Now - OH,USA
The explosion temporarily knocked out power to about 1200 Duke Energy customers. Company officials said the explosion was traced to an underground circuit
Banning City Council, residents want transmission lines underground
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
One speaker suggested an alternative to putting lines underground would be to move them south of the development and in the same right-of-way as an existing ...
Piping the problem underground
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Now, prompted by global-warming concerns, scientists are investigating what happens to the gas after it is pumped underground -- and Weyburn is one of the ...
Spacepac Industries introduces underground rainwater tank
Ferret - Australia
To meet one’s rainwater storage requirements while maximising efficient use of space, Spacepac Industries is introducing a new underground rainwater tank. ...
Coal mines must provide 4 days of emergency air under new law
Princeton Daily Clarion - Princeton,IN,USA
(AP) - Underground coal mines must provide up to four days of breathable air to keep miners alive in emergencies such as an explosion or a tunnel collapse, ...
Snow update: Cable explosion
Oxford Mail - Oxford,England,UK
The extreme weather conditions were to blame for an underground cable explosion that sent smoke billowing into an Oxford city centre street and cut power to ...
~Underground blast jolts Chinatown
Examiner.com - USA
SAN FRANCISCO - An explosion inside an underground electrical vault rocked Chinatown on Wednesday afternoon, rupturing a natural gas line that Pacific Gas ..
Storing tiny bubbles of CO2 underground could prevent pollution ...
Imperial College London - London,UK
Storing tiny bubbles of carbon dioxide underground could substantially reduce the emission of harmful greenhouse gases says an international team of ...
NY to sue Exxon Mobil over slow cleanup of huge underground oil ...
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
The subterranean slick, hidden beneath more than 50 acres of homes and businesses, is believed to have been floating on Brooklyn's water table for at least ...
Raccoon Caused Explosion
Monroe County Advocate Democrat - Sweetwater,TN,USA
... blew up a regulator and even charred lines underground. The regulator explosion is most likely what people saw in the sky Friday night. ..
Namibia: Telecom Crippled By Copper Wire Thefts
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Telecom personnel, assisted by the Grootfontein Police, were able to recover some 675kg of the copper wire hidden under bushes ready to be transported for ...
Jetting sewage for a year is unreasonable solution
Journal Times Online - Racine,WI,USA
Perhaps some enterprising engineering firm knows of a way to isolate the one-mile section of underground tunnel that would leave the rest of the system ...
Drilling begins in county-to-county water test OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA
The underground tunnel could be used in addition to the existing conduits. In addition, the Orange County Transportation Authority and Riverside County ...
Tunnels reveal University lore
Duke Chronicle - Durham,NC,USA
"I just wanted to fulfill a graduation requirement," said freshman "Student X," a veteran tunnel traveler who wished to remain anonymous. ...
32 coal miners die in Columbian explosion
Mineweb - Johannesburg,South Africa
One body remained underground, which crews hoped to recover on Monday. Rosales blamed the explosion on a build up of methane gas inside one of the mine ...
Conference reveals that solar-powered streetlights are the wave of ...
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA
It created the lamp with the help of outdoor lighting manufacturer Hadco of Littlestown, Pa., and solar technology company SolarOne Solutions of Framingham, ...
Company to market new solar roof technology
Malaysia Star - Petaling Jaya,Malaysia
The solar technology could provide a complete and cost-effective process for heating, cooling, humidity as well as daylight control in buildings
February explosions at Bishop and Boissevain linger in memories
Bluefield Daily Telegraph - Bluefield,WV,USA It happened in what was called the Pine Ridge section of the sprawling coal operation and was described as the worst explosion in the previous five years of
Underground lake gives hope
NEWS.com.au - Australia
A LITTLE known underground lake flowing through part of Sydney's CBD is at the centre of new efforts to ease the water crisis
January 2007
Copper Wire Thefts Plague San Joaquin County
KCRA.com - Sacramento,CA,USA
STOCKTON, Calif. -- San Joaquin County authorities are investigating a series of recent copper wire thefts. Investigators said 15 thefts have been reported ...
End near for German underground coalmines
Expatica - Netherlands
Hamburg (dpa) - The end is near for Germany's eight remaining underground coalmines after pro-labour Social Democrats in Germany's ruling coalition agreed, ...
Govts scrap garbage pipelines / Underground collection system ...
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
The enormous amount of money invested by municipal governments to build underground garbage collecting systems in new town areas has effectively been wasted ...
Lawmakers Oppose Planned Con Ed Underground Power Line
NY1 - NY,USA
Elected officials say the planned route for the nine and a half mile underground power line extending from Yonkers to Inwood passes apartment buildings, ...
Time To Build Highways Underground?
His sketches of underground highways lined by trees to filter out noxious chemicals, also showed such a concept could minimize noise and maximize ... They suggest that the city build the road and the planned railroad track, underground.
A light bulb came on, and it was energy efficient
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
"Energy-saving products started so many years ago in European countries, and usually North America is a little bit slower to react. .
Shore leave: Wellfleet shellfisherman pulls oysters from sea to ...
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
"They go into a root cellar where they can live a long time." Until "the first big tide of March," to be specific. Oysters consider the cool and humid ...
Federal team still looking for cause of blast
Danvers Herald - Beverly,MA,USA
... in Canada to Massachusetts and eventually down South that is buried 6 feet underground and leads into the Waters River, near the scene of the explosion. ...
Geothermal Stocks: Heating Up
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
Nevada Geothermal Power, Inc. [NGLPF.OB]: This company explores for and develops geothermal projects in the United States to provide electricity. ...
’Potholes plague regions streets
Saanich News - Saanich,British Columbia,Canada
By Tara Carman. Now that the snow is gone, municipal crews are struggling to catch up with one of its more jarring legacies: potholes. ...
Afghan coal mine burning for 20 years
Middle East Times - Cairo,Egypt
Still, he downplayed talk of an explosion. "An explosion is unlikely, because the fire is underground and there's insufficient oxygen to cause the mine to ...
Underground Explosion Causes Fireball in Frederick
WTOP - Washington,DC,USA
FREDERICK, Md. - An underground explosion in downtown Frederick Saturday afternoon sent a fireball into the street and sidewalk grates flying into the air,
Why we were left in the dark
Whidbey News Times - Whidbey,WA,USA
This year’s anomalous barrage of winter storms has left Whidbey Island residents praying to the underground power line gods.
Yonkers residents complain about Con Edison's plans for ...
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA
... Bronx last night to register their opposition to Consolidated Edison's plans to install a new underground transmission line through their local streets.
General Cable Announces Major Underground High-Voltage Award
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
The high-voltage underground portion of the project consists of approximately 69 miles of a new 345kV synthetic insulated cable system including 225 ...
Local furnace maker goes underground for solar energy
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
Given this situation, why then not simply extract the stored solar energy from the earth for heating during the winter when the underground temperature is ...
'Heat mining' as key US energy source
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA
"EGS technology has already been proven to work in the few areas where underground heat has been successfully extracted. ...
Hard Craft in the 19th century
di-ve.com - Malta
Cornwall's real tin-mining heritage lies hidden underground in hundreds of miles of shafts and tunnels painfully excavated by hand. Many diggings extend far ...
Second 50-Year Geothermal Lease For Raser
CarbonFree News - Cambridge,UK
Geothermal energy, which can be converted to electricity using the heat from the Earth’s interior, qualifies as a renewable source of energy that does not ...
Geothermal energy gathering steam
Marketplace - Los Angeles,CA,USA
That steam drives turbines on the surface, generating electricity. And unlike other renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar, geothermal ...