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US Department of Energy Awarded $900,000 to Petrolern LLC as the Winner of the SMART Visualization Platform Prize Challenge
ATLANTA - September 7, 2022 - (Newswire.com)
Petrolern, a clean energy technology company, was announced by DOE's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management as the final winner of its SMART Visualization Platform Prize Challenge.
The prize of $900,000 was awarded to Petrolern for developing the GeoDeck Visualization Platform, a first-of-its-kind tool that uses science-based machine learning and data analytics to visualize changes in subsurface features quickly and accurately. The purpose of the competition was to create a visualization tool allowing non-experts and experts alike to interact directly with subsurface data in real time to enhance decision-making for safer and more environmentally friendly subsurface operations, including CO2 or hydrogen storage, geothermal energy, and oil and gas production.
GeoDeck is an innovative, web-based software which will transform how scientists, engineers, regulators, and the public interact with the subsurface by providing real-time visualizations of subterranean fluid flows, fractures, and other features. GeoDeck creates a fast and seamless user experience through hardware acceleration and GPU utilization imbedded in modern browser environments. Moreover, since subsurface datasets are often too large to be remotely handled by browsers, GeoDeck intelligently and dynamically reduces the data overhead within the loading process.
"With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the carbon storage industry is poised for substantial growth in the next few years. We are excited to see how an easy-to-use platform like GeoDeck can be utilized to better communicate what we have learned about safely implementing carbon storage to all stakeholders — regulators, operators, and community members," said Grant Bromhal, Technical Director of NETL's SMART initiative.
"We are proud of this prestigious award and very grateful to the DOE SMART Initiative team for creating this opportunity for innovative companies to address important industry challenges," said Dr. Hamed Soroush, Petrolern's CEO. "There is a need for identification of subsurface risks associated with subsurface operations in real time to avoid catastrophic hazards. GeoDeck is designed to make subsurface visualization quick, intuitive, and accessible to a wide range of users while not sacrificing the required details for accurate decision-making. It runs on most commercial web browsers allowing for rapid deployment. Our team of engineers and geoscientists are working hard to finalize the product for release in 2023. This award is a valuable recognition of our team's dedicated efforts to support the energy transition."
GeoDeck Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTiBawuPaJY
More information about the SMART Visualization Platform Prize Challenge: https://netl.doe.gov/challenges/SMARTVisualizationPlatform
About Petrolern:
Petrolern is a technology company developing cutting-edge low-carbon solutions to improve economics and risk mitigation for subsurface operations. Petrolern delivers innovative solutions for carbon storage, geothermal energy, and reduced carbon oil and gas operations. Our green energy initiative begins with making the oil and gas industry greener by providing energy-transition solutions. Petrolern's core competencies include advanced geomechanics, fluid mechanics, subsurface engineering, applied artificial intelligence, visualization, edge computing, and software development. For more information, contact us at [email protected].
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KMC Controls Celebrates Employee’s 52 Year Career
KMC Controls®, an industry leader in building automation, is at once delighted and saddened to announce the retirement of Chris Kreuter, an innovator whose career spanned more than 50 years with the company.
Chris' career started 52 years ago when his father, Ken Kreuter, founded Kreuter Manufacturing - today called KMC Controls.
In the late-1960s Ken realized an opportunity to form his own company. "My dad wanted to design a line of controls of our own," explained Chris, "and that's what we started doing. We built molds and dies to make our own parts and our own controls."
At the company's inception, Chris worked in partnership with his father, two of his brothers, and future brother-in-law. "I was making parts on a lathe and also on a punch press when I was a teenager," recalled Chris, three of whose brothers continue to work at KMC. Together, along with other family members lending a hand when and where needed, they fashioned parts and equipment to Ken's designs in a three-car garage. "We used to work 12, 14 hours a day if we had to."
In the mid-1970s, the young company relocated from Winnipeg, Canada to Thief River Falls, Minnesota. By the 1980s, manufacturing split off and moved to a site in New Paris, Indiana. By the close of the decade, the company had consolidated its engineering and manufacturing operations to its expanded facility in New Paris.
As the business grew, so did the scope of Chris's roles at the company. "I started doing some of the tool design in the '80s," he said, "and I was doing some of the product design in the '90s."
A small sampling of HVAC hardware he helped develop include wall-mounted sensors, the proprietary line of KMDigital controllers, the Conquest series of BACnet controllers, and the Company's new Indoor Air Quality line of controllers and measuring devices, not to mention a system for coupling an actuator to a valve or damper, for which he holds a patent.
In his more than five decades in the business, Chris has witnessed firsthand sweeping changes in technology and how it is applied to facility controls. "We went from pneumatics [controls that use compressed air as the signaling medium] to computer electronics on all aspects of a building," he said. "That was the biggest change I've seen."
In that same time span, KMC Controls has managed to grow while remaining true to its origins as a family-owned business committed to innovation and to the success of its customers.
Today, the original machine shop has given way to a state-of-the-art tool and die facility under the same roof as the engineering department and factory floor. Having all those capabilities in house remains one reason the company can take a concept from drawing to working prototype in a fraction of the time it takes other manufacturers in the controls industry.
Looking ahead, Chris said he looks forward to having more time for his hobbies. "I'll probably do a lot more hunting and fishing," he said. A pilot who has logged more than 4,000 hours in the air, he is also an avid vintage motorcycle collector.
Looking back, said Chris said he enjoys the friendships he's made at KMC. "Good folks here," he said. And he plans to check in on them at KMC from time to time. After all, it's another opportunity take one of his 1930s- and 1940s-era Harley Davidson cruisers out for a ride.
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The Harris Poll Discusses ‘Quiet Quitting’ Becoming Businesses’ Greatest Fear and Management Challenge in New Podcast Episode
The Quiet Quitting movement is both "business leaders' biggest fear" and a challenge that they alone can solve, according to Libby Rodney, chief strategy officer at The Harris Poll Thought Leadership Practice. Rodney shared her thoughts on the trend in an August episode of the new podcast "America This Week," co-hosted by Rodney and John Gerzema, CEO of The Harris Poll.
During their conversation, Rodney and Gerzema explore the origins of the Quiet Quitting movement, which leaped from TikTok to international headlines in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. They explore who's disengaging, and why, and delve into the rise of free agent employees who want more money from corporations at a time when those corporations are more likely to instigate hiring freezes and layoffs.
Despite its name, Quiet Quitting doesn't actually involve quitting, per se. "You're not outright quitting your job, but you're quitting the idea of going above and beyond," said TikTok user Zaiad Khan. As described by BBC News, Quiet Quitting means "doing only what your job demands and nothing more. Quitting doing anything extra. You still show up for work, but stay strictly within the boundaries of your job requirements. So no more helping out with additional tasks or checking emails outside work hours."
A new survey that Harris Poll conducted for Bloomberg News examines the factors that contribute to Quiet Quitting. The poll revealed that in general, the younger the worker, the more disillusioned they are with their jobs and the more likely they are to quit if employers implement return-to-office (RTO) policies and reduce hybrid or work-from-home (WFH) environments.
Among the findings:
Employers Hold the Reins: More than three-quarters (76%) of Gen Z employees believe employers have more leverage in the job market than employees, compared to 56% of all employees.
Young People Are Free Agents: Among working adults, 42% of Gen Z and 37% of Millennials have recently quit or switched jobs in the past two years; 48% of Gen Z and 49% of Millennials say they are likely to quit their job in the next year.
Fearing the Worst: Among working adults, 57% of Gen Z and 42% of Millennials are worried that they are going to lose their job soon.
Fight vs. Flight: Almost two-thirds (66%) of Millennials say they have stayed in their jobs because of economic fluctuations (e.g., rising inflation, decreasing stock market) compared to barely half (51%) of Gen Z.
Bracing for RTO: Among remote/hybrid working adults, 57% of Millennials say they would quit if they were forced to work five days a week in the office.
Ready to Jump: Seven in 10 (71%) of Gen Z and more than two-thirds (68%) of Millennials say they are likely to try securing other job offers in order to get raises at their current jobs.
Those signs of career unhappiness are behind the Quiet Quitting movement and are why employers are concerned about productivity.
"One thing to recognize is that this is most business leaders' biggest fear," Rodney said during the podcast. "This is exactly what they're worried about and why they're telling people to return to the office.
"The second [thing], and the most important one, is the context of this. Before the pandemic, the employee engagement rates were really low. There was a massive burnout in workplace culture, and even the World Health Organization deemed it a critical thing that corporate workplaces had to solve. The pandemic just put fuel on that, and we all had to run and sprint through this time, and maybe now we're in more of a marathon. It's up to companies to get people excited to be working."
Rodney and Gerzema dig much deeper into the topic, offering more insight as well as statistics during their discussion of Quiet Quitting, which can be heard at
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/america-this-week-from-the-harris-poll/id1626151653
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https://theharrispoll.newswiremap.com
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Building on 50+ years of experience pulsing societal opinion, we design research that is credible, creative, and culturally relevant. Our practice drives thought leadership and unearths trends for today's biggest brands. We are focused on helping our clients get ahead of what's next.
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TES Expands US Operations by Adding a Fourth Facility
LAS VEGAS - September 6, 2022 - (Newswire.com)
Continuing with the growth already seen in the Asia-Pacific and Europe, the Las Vegas facility will expand TES's overall processing capacity and deliver a full suite of IT Asset Disposition services to support the technology giants on the West Coast.
The 40,000-square foot facility is anticipated to open in January 2023. It will offer onsite data destruction, data center decommissioning, and the redeployment or resale of parts and assets, including testing, grading, repairing refurbishment, and recycling.
This latest facility complements an existing infrastructure already recognised as the largest globally, bringing TES's investment to almost $10 million in ITAD infrastructure across its North American facilities over the previous five years.
TES's infrastructure is unique. Comprising over 40 facilities located across more than 20 countries, the ownership of these facilities offers clients unique sustainability and consistency through centralized functions, including security, work processes, reporting, value recovery, and compliance.
This latest facility is strategically located close to Las Vegas's major logistics arteries, offering clients lower logistics costs and reduced carbon emissions resulting from excess transportation.
Eric Ingebretsen, TES's Chief Commercial Officer, commented: "As we grow, we must ensure that we continue to closely meet the needs of our customers, not just by offering superior IT lifecycle solutions but also by ensuring that these solutions are combined with the best sustainability-based outcomes for those assets."
Gary Steele, TES's Chief Executive Officer, commented: "This investment backs that commitment by providing best-in-class full lifecycle solutions where our clients are located, backed by a global support network."
According to a new study by Future Market Insights on the IT Asset Disposition market, the ITAD market is anticipated to document a compound annual growth rate of 7.42% during 2022-2032. Fueling this growth is an increased need for data and information security, as well as environmental factors.
TES's services and infrastructure growth align with the data and information security needs of businesses by meeting complex compliance needs while removing the associated barriers to organizations leveraging a strategic ITAD program, such as concerns over data security.
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About TES
Founded in 2005, TES is a global leader in sustainable technology services and bespoke solutions that help clients manage the commission, deployment, and retirement of technology devices and components. As one of the largest IT lifecycle service providers in the world, TES understands the common challenges of managing IT equipment throughout its lifecycle. Customized, cost-effective solutions address these challenges and ensure compliance with all local and international data security, environmental, and industry regulations.
TES's mission is to make a decade of difference by securely, safely, and sustainably transforming and repurposing one billion kilograms of assets by 2030. TES has an unmatched global footprint of 42 facilities across 21 countries and offers unrivaled consistency in service. In addition, the company provides consistent commercials, reduced logistics costs, and local environmental compliance experts, as well as support in local time zones and languages and a deep understanding of transboundary movement throughout the world.
To learn more about TES, visit www.tes-amm.com or email Eric Ingebretsen, our Chief Commercial Officer, at [email protected].
About SK ecoplant
The business model of SK ecoplant is an eco-friendly ecosystem platform that links its technologies with humans, the environment, and finance. SK is building sustainable lifestyles with our creative solutions and advanced technologies, offering solutions to current problems and sowing the seeds for a better future.
SK ecoplant is building a financial story that manifests our commitment to a new future. As proven by our acquisition of a leading company in the environmental industry, we are taking steps to achieve our goal of becoming "Asia's leading environmental business by 2023," with clear, concrete mid- and long-term strategies for each business sector.
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New Trail Replenish IPA – a New Beer on a Mission to Plant Trees
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New Trail Replenish IPA is on a mission to Replenish native tree populations
New Trail Brewing Co. of Williamsport, PA is proud to announce the all new Year-round Replenish West Coast IPA.
Replenish IPA is on a mission to Replenish native tree populations. $1 of every case ever sold will go directly to planting new trees that will clean the air & water for future generations of people & wildlife. Raise a can of Replenish with us & help raise funds for our trees!
New Trail has always set out to brew great beer to enjoy in the great outdoors. Everything we do out there from fishing to hiking to sight-seeing depends on healthy forests and clean water. New Trail wants to be a part of ensuring those opportunities continue to be available into the future.
New Trail is sending $1 of every Replenish IPA case and $5 of every Replenish IPA keg ever sold to the expert non-profits who are out there every day doing the work. New Trail's longtime nonprofit partner, The Pennsylvania Parks & Forests Foundation, has targeted the needs for different native species in different areas around the state. They are out there planting trees in conjunction with state parks & forests staff & volunteers across PA.
Donations from Replenish IPA are not capped. New Trail will continue to send funds as long as this new year-round IPA is produced. Replenish IPA cans have a QR Code on the side pointing to newtrailbrewing.com/replenish where everyone can follow along with donation progress.
Replenish is a west coast IPA. This is New Trail's first year-round push into brewing the iconic style that has lifted craft beer for so long. It has the familiar notes of sticky pine & deep citrus, and its crystal clear. Replenish IPA is bright, crisp & balanced making it an excellent partner to any trek through the pines.
New Trail will be throwing the Replenish Launch Party September 17th at the Tasting Room in Williamsport. Replenish will be on tap, pine tree saplings will be available free of charge for those who wish to personally plant along with the project, PA Parks & Forests will be in attendance, and more.
Keep an eye out for Replenish parties at bars and restaurants across PA. New Trail will plant a tree for every pint drank at those Replenish takeovers. More info will be available on Facebook and Instagram @newtrailbrewing when those are announced.
Replenish cans are shipping to retailers across PA in the last week of September. Available in 16oz 4-packs and soon as part of The Hoppy Variety 12oz 12-packs.
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