GM to open Michigan battery pack plant
Today, General Motors will take a significant step in furthering the country’s EV industry. It will start operations at the nation’s first battery pack plant run by a U.S. automaker. The plant in Brownstown Township, MI will assemble the battery packs for the Chevy Volt.
GM chose January 7 to open up shop because it’s exactly three years from the initial announcement of the Volt. Energy
Student flies like a bird, powered only by himself
A Canadian university student has done what Leonardo da Vincihad only dreamt of: Piloted a human-powered “wing-flapping” plane! Called an ornithopter, and the inspiration for modern day helicopters, the machine was first sketched by da Vinci way back in 1485 and never actually built.
Todd Reichert, an engineering student at the University of Toronto, made history by sustaining flight in his ornithopter — named Snowbird — for 19.3 seconds and covering 475.72
1-800-recycling makes recycling a snap
(Photo: Courtesy of Electronic Recyclers
International)
Fresno, California-based Electronic Recyclers International, Inc. (ERI) is the largest recycler in the U.S. of the growing tide of e-waste (electronic waste). Notably, the company does all its processing on American soil, and it works with a wide range of partners to take in material from consumers, businesses, governments and other sources.
Now, ERI is launching 1800recycling.com (and the associated toll-free phone number) as a
