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Energy Initatives

YOUTH OF THE WORLD TEAM UP ON HYDROGEN INNOVATIONS

Fuel Cell Store (www.fuelcellstore.com), a leading international online retailer of fuel cell products and organizer of the 2007 International Youth Fuel Cell Competition (IYFCC), announced the winners of the 2007 IYFCC. The competition held October 15-17, 2007 in conjunction with the 2007 Fuel Cell Seminar & Exposition in San Antonio, Texas, featured seven teams that represented Germany, India, Japan, and the United ...

Art of Selling

Recently, I was assisting with a rep’s technical quotation; he had spent a considerable amount of time learning and evaluating the customer’s manufacturing needs through plant visits and interviews with their engineers. Unexpectedly, we were notified that purchasing was initiating a two hour reverse auction (an on-line bidding frenzy where the last and lowest offer gets the award) to make the final vendor selection.

When was the ...

Saf-T-Corner

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A METAL SHOP CAN BE A DANGEROUS PLACE EVEN UNDER THE BEST OF CIRCUMSTANCES

There are always safety considerations to be aware of when moving into a new facility. SafTcart's new manufacturing facility, which we moved into in January of 2006, was previously a mobile home manufacturing plant and had been empty for more than five years. Needless to say, we had a lot of renovating to do prior to moving day. ...

Basic Cryogenics

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Density is a measure of mass per unit of volume. A dense object, such as a brick of lead, weighs much more than an equal-sized brick of a less dense substance, like styrofoam. To determine the density, you simply divide an object’s weight by its volume. This formula is expressed as ρ= m / V, where ρ is the object’s density; ...