The new Berching-Altmannsdorf solar park will feed solar power into the grid of the Berching community wind farm the Regensburg-based developer and operator of green energy plants has started construction of a new solar project together with the project developer Iqony Solar Energy Solutions (SENS) On an area of 15 hectares in Berching-Altmannsdorf in the district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate the project partners' craftsmen are installing a total of around 33,000 solar modules Together they have an output of 20 megawatts This is not the first solar project that the two companies have built together in the region Windpower and SENS commissioned three new plants in Deining and Seubersdorf This means that the Berching-Altmannsdorf solar park alone is almost as large as the other three projects the project partners are using bifacial modules to increase the yield The inverters of the new solar park will feed the solar power into the existing grid of the neighbouring Berching community wind farm This will create a solar-wind hybrid power plant See also: SENS completes two solar parks with 80 megawatts in Andalusia The grid connection will be better utilised thanks to the combination the wind power and photovoltaic technologies complement each other very well It also significantly reduces the amount of work required for cable and road construction citizens also have the opportunity to invest in the large solar project and benefit financially from the plant's yields As the municipality already had experience with the construction of green energy plants the cooperation with the project planners was very good "We are delighted to have such committed partners for the implementation of the energy transition in the municipalities in the district of Neumarkt," emphasises Johannes Ehbauer this expansion of renewable power plant capacities throughout the district would not have been possible." 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A podcast for investors on the opportunities and risks of the solar market The pv Europe editorial team offers their own analysis and discusses current topics with experts Westhampton Beach's girls lacrosse team earned its first Suffolk County title with a 6-5 win over Comsewogue May 26 Senior midfielder Olivia Rongo shoots and scores Freshman goalkeeper Maya Farnan makes a save Junior midfielder and defender Reilly Mahon carries the ball into Comsewogue's zone Freshman attack Reese King winds up to take a shot Senior midfielder Olivia Rongo scored three goals in Westhampton Beach's win Freshman defender Lily Graves moves down the sideline with Comsewogue opponents on her hip Eighth-grade attack Ava Derby cuts to the cage Freshman goalkeeper Maya Farnan made eight saves including several crucial stops in sudden-death overtime Sophomore defender Kenzie Schindler races downfield after forcing a turnover Westhampton Beach's girls lacrosse tam is headed to its first Long Island championship game Senior attack Lily Berchin scored the game-winning goal for Westhampton Beach For this Westhampton Beach girls lacrosse team earning a double overtime win over Comsewogue also meant taking the first Suffolk County title in school history And it was senior attack Lily Berchin who sealed the deal late in the second three-minute extra session while Westhampton was down a player After freshman Brie Provenzano sent Berchin’s pass back to her the senior forced an angle to the cage and fired a diving shot into the lower left corner with 10 seconds on the clock to cement a 6-5 Class B championship victory over the No Berchin said she didn’t know she’d hit her mark until her teammates swarmed her “Brie passed it back to me and I just put my head down went for it.” The game-winning shot sends Westhampton Beach (12-6) to play the winner of Nassau’s matchup between No 2 Long Beach in the Long Island Class B title game at Stony Brook University on June 5 at 2 p.m if it wasn’t for Westhampton Beach’s thundering comeback and some crucial saves late by freshman goalkeeper Maya Farnan capped by Olivia Rongo’s hat trick goal from around back and made her shot while falling backward with 4:49 left in regulation “We were setting up a play where I feed from ‘X,’ and before we got a chance to run it I knew then that we were in the best position possible Key to Westhampton Beach’s success was also winning the draws when it mattered most Rongo’s first grab of the second sent the ball to junior Reilly Mahon who quickly delivered it to classmate Samantha Shaumloffel before she bounced it in to close the gap to 5-3 senior Madison Mosher intercepted a pass from a Comsewogue (12-5) defender near the sideline and rocketed the ball over to eighth-grader Ava Derby who quickly released on the break to make it a one-goal game but this shows that we have a lot of heart,” head coach Mary Bergmann said “We knew we had to dig deep to get the job done “Our heads were up and down,” Berchin added “But once our foot was on the gas we went for it.” The freshman made back-to-back free position stops with 28 seconds left in the first session picking a rebound that rolled into the crease on the second shot she netted the ball up high with 1:02 to go in the second That possession eventually led to Berchin’s score It has to stay in front,’ and I did that,” Farnan said “It would have been devastating for this season to be over Bergmann said she and her Hurricanes are nothing but confident when their protector is between the pipes “She steps up big when we need her,” the coach said We know if it gets in the back of the net it’s only because it’s an amazing play and an amazing shot from a really great player.” She was even more gratified seeing her team pull away with the win after all the talk from doubters this season Westhampton Beach was on the losing side of three straight one-goal games this year the first being to Comsewogue in double overtime back on April 19 “We proved a lot of people wrong,” Bergmann said “A lot of people didn’t give us credit this year — didn’t think we could get to this point A lot of people thought we were ranked too high in the beginning of the season This is probably one of the best teams that I’ve ever coached You've read 4 of your 7 free articles this month Please log in or create an account to continue reading This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page 2015Kristin Thorne has the details.MORICHES (WABC) -- The motto here is they're not just growing plants It's called Smile Farms in Moriches on Long Island It's staffed entirely by adults with developmental disabilities "I like to work with customers and I like to be friendly," said Alex Berchin you may know him as the CEO of 1-800-FLOWERS which is based on Long Island His younger brother Kevin has developmental disabilities I plan my day and I do greenhouse work," said Kevin McCann "When you think about the fact that 80% of the people with development disabilities are unemployed in this country "I'd like to knock that 80% number down a whole lot." come from Independent Group Home Living on Long Island They see these plants as a success in their life," said Walter Stockton "How does it feel to have a paycheck at the end of the week?" Eyewitness News asked "You have to buy furniture and pay bills," another worker said Their next plan is to open up another one of these on the North Fork and then across the country really anywhere there's a strong source of people to rally around the cause," said Claire Stapleton "Now we're getting calls from people all throughout the country mostly from relationships 'Hey can you help us do that?" Jim said introduced a novel rotating flat sheet membrane bioreactor (MBR) to the wastewater treatment market in 2002 the system has been installed in 20 municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants worldwide The company's Vacuum Rotation Membrane (VRM®) technology offers lower energy demand through sequential cleaning The rotating flat sheet membranes operate with extended chemical cleaning intervals due to the shear forces introduced by the rotational movement These shear forces together with the high intensity air scour remove any solids build-up on the membranes which helps reduce membrane fouling potential Chemical cleaning once or twice a year has shown to be sufficient for all operating VRM plants Operational performance has demonstrated the system's ability to meet the world's most stringent regulations including California's Title 22 water recycling criteria Energy consumption for membrane air scouring is a significant operating cost for any membrane bioreactor facility Huber's rotational design allows for a significant reduction of the amount of scouring air needed to prevent membrane fouling the scouring air is introduced at only half the water depth which reduces the air pressure and thus the blower's power consumption This design has proven to be reliable and has led to considerable savings in operating and maintenance costs One of the first MBR plants using the VRM technology was a small plant at the Schwägalp valley railway station in Switzerland It was designed for 780 residents and an average dry weather flow of 26,500 gallons per day The treatment plant clarifies the wastewater of an alpine hotel The rotating membrane unit (VRM 20) was installed in early 2002 During the summer season the plant has to handle up to 34,500 gallons of wastewater per day Flows during the winter months can be as low as 1,300 gallons per day Another challenge is the snow melt in the spring which leads to very low wastewater treatment temperatures Despite the enormous variations in flow and temperatures Effluent is of a consistent high quality and membrane permeability is up to 12 gfd/psi The plant operates with a membrane flux of 7.6 gfd making sure that the membranes do not foul during the low temperature period The biological treatment stage achieves a COD reduction of nearly 97% and a total elimination of ammonium nitrogen Maintenance for the MBR plant is minimal and is conducted by the operating staff of the railway company Manual operator intervention is only necessary for excess sludge removal The plant has been in operation for more than six years and only twice have the membranes required chemical cleaning To date there has been no replacement required of any membrane modules due to failure or wear The new MBR plant for the small Spanish community of Arenas de Iguña located near the coastal town of Santander the community had no sewage treatment plant at all even though drinking water for the region is taken from the river just a short way downstream from where the town's wastewater is discharged As problems with water contamination increased it was decided in early 2005 to build a wastewater treatment plant with a membrane bioreactor Huber received the order to supply the equipment for mechanical pretreatment the membrane bioreactor and sludge thickening Arenas de Iguña is the first MBR plant to use Huber's VRM 30 unit The larger unit and higher packing density reduces the footprint of the membrane tanks and leads to further reduction in air scour flow and energy costs as well as lower operating and chemical cleaning costs The complete MBR plant was built with only four membrane units is the largest rendering plant in Switzerland Wastewater generated in its production process shows a high and varying load of organic nitrogen compounds the wastewater has been treated biologically in a membrane filtration plant prior to being discharged into the river Alte Aare One incentive to build an onsite MBR facility at the plant was the capacity shortage in the local municipal wastewater treatment plant The company's different wastewater flows are collected and remain as a combined flow for one week in a mixing and regulation tank with an agitation unit Undissolved material is removed by dissolved air flotation (DAF) prior to biological wastewater treatment in the bioreactor After separation of the activated sludge by the membrane filtration plant the effluent is discharged into the local river Some of the permeate is reused as service water for cleaning purposes within the plant The biological treatment system has an average daily capacity of 130,000 gallons The system is designed with two lines each consisting of a biological treatment stage with intermittent denitrification and a membrane filtration unit (VRM 20) The MBR plant was commissioned in November 2006 Initially an issue with the DAF pretreatment system required a non-scheduled membrane cleaning however from that point forward one annual cleaning has been sufficient built and put into operation within a short time period The 640,000 gallons per day MBR plant for a tourist resort in Los Cabos only took 8 months from preliminary design to final start-up of the membranes The effluent produced by the membrane bioreactor is reused for landscape and golf course irrigation A rotating drum screen with 3 mm (1/8”) perforated plates at the head of the treatment plant protects the membranes The screen is installed in a stainless steel tank and combined with a grit and grease removal unit also made of stainless steel (Huber Rotamat® Complete Plant Ro5) The MBR plant only needs two membrane units (VRM 30) saving time on installation and maintenance The units are installed in separate membrane tanks after the aeration tank Currently only one membrane unit is installed for an average flow of 320,000 gpd and a peak flow of 450,000 gpd The second membrane unit will be installed when the capacity of the plant increases in the future Sandra Schuler is an MBR Process Engineer for Hubert Technology She received her Bachelor Degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen and holds a Masters of Science Degree in Water Resources Engineering and Management from the University of Stuttgart Guidelines in Preparation of Articles Editorial Board List of All Issues Disclaimer and Permissions Inquiries and Submissions Subscription Working Papers Monograph Series Staff Papers Economic Outlook Series List of All Archived Publications Database Updates Photos Infographics The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) will hold a public webinar on June 15 This virtual event will feature the PIDS study “Implications of Lifting the Open-Pit Mining Ban in the Philippines” by PIDS consultant Engr The study investigated the implications of lifting the open-pit mining method which was done on the premise that revitalizing the mining industry can contribute to the country’s post-pandemic economic growth It reviewed the rationale behind opposing views on open-pit mining and proposed strategies for sustainability and optimized benefits for the industry A copy of the study may be downloaded from the link below: Implications of Lifting the Open-Pit Mining Ban in the Philippines https://www.pids.gov.ph/publication/discussion-papers/implications-of-lifting-the-open-pit-mining-ban-in-the-philippines    To register, go to https://bit.ly/pidswebinarjune15 You may also tune in to the PIDS and SERP-P Facebook pages for the livestream Presentation of Engr Philippine Institute for Development Studies  Presentation of Engr Chief, Mine Environmental Audit Section, Mines and Geosciences Bureau Presentation of Dr Marian delos Angeles, Board Member Emeritus, Resources Presentation of Engr The final episode of Masters of the Air, Apple TV’s historical drama about the bomber pilots of the 100th Squadron during World War II bringing with it the usual bittersweetness of any story coming to an end This finale was very much in line with the ones from Masters of the Air’s de facto prequels namely Band of Brothers in 2001 and The Pacific in 2010 The final episodes of all three shows covered the final months of the war—on the European or Pacific fronts—and the eventual return home of the soldiers that had survived the fighting let’s recap what happened to the 100th Squadron pilots in “Part Nine” of Masters of the Air At the start of the episode, the show’s arguable leads, Majors Gale “Buck” Cleven and John “Bucky” Egan (played by Austin Butler and Callum Turner respectively) are made to march out of the prison camp where they’re being held by the German troops along with a good chunk of other characters The front is getting closer and the Nazis want to keep the prisoners away from possible liberation at the hands of the Red Army advancing from the East difficult marches through the snowy German territory and various prison camps—as well as some very heartfelt moments between our main duo— the prisoners arrive in the town of Berching Buck and Bucky finally decide to make a run for it and try the escape they have been mulling over ever since they found themselves in the same prison camp with Cleven managing to reunite with US Army soldiers after surviving an attack in the woods by a group of kids of the Nazi national militia Volkssturm he’s flown back to the United Kingdom and to the base at Thorpe Abbotts arrives at the massive prisoner camp of Stalag VII—and there takes part in the liberation of the camp by the US Army climbing up the flagpole to tear down the Nazi flag and hoist up the American stars and stripes The episode actually begins with Nate Mann’s Major Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal’s plane getting shot down during a bombing mission over Berlin in the early months of 1945 who identify him as American and bring him along with them until they can put him on a plane that is going to take him back to the United Kingdom—albeit via a very long series of stops in between While marching with the Red Army through Poland Rosenthal comes face to face with the horrors of the Holocaust as the Army column stops near Fort VII a concentration camp set up by the Nazis near the Polish city of Poznań Both Rosenthal and Cleven make it back to Thorpe Abbotts Henry Crosby and the rest of the Squadron are gearing up to fly a series of mercy missions over the Netherlands to deliver food to the population starving in what has come to be known as the Hongerwinter flying for the first time in one of the planes that he has patched up endlessly during the war the pilots make it back to base to discover that Egan is also back to base bringing the “undisputed leaders of the Squadron,” as Cleven and Egan were described in the show’s first episode comes and brings with it the official end of the war The final scenes of Masters of the Air see military personnel dismantling the base at Thorpe Abbotts packing gear and documents up to return to the United States The pilots do the same, a long line of planes taking off one after the other in a perfect mirror of how they arrived two years before, with the local British civilians waving them goodbye. Buck and Bucky remember their fellow soldiers who didn’t make it home while most of the Squadron looks forward to a return to civilian life since he has a newborn son waiting for him at home with his wife Jean Have a tip we should know? [email protected]