The shift to using more renewable energy sources is brought forth by the world’s collective effort to minimize greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. But while they’re cleaner and safer to nature and us, the power that they produce can be intermittent. To address this challenge, industry experts are turning to sustainable energy storage in […]
Keeping Your Trees Healthy With Proper Trimming Techniques
Trees offer a wealth of short and long-term benefits. From a sustainability standpoint, they are natural air purifiers absorbing the carbon dioxide you and I expel and fill our environment with life sustaining oxygen. They don’t just produce oxygen; they utilize our CO2 for their own life force and minimize greenhouse gases in the process. […]
Calibration of Precision Instruments to NIST Standards
Precision measurement tools like an alidade and theodolites are used in many industries — from surveying to navigation. While they provide accurate measurements that help users deliver quality charting and distance measurements, their accuracy degrades over time, mainly due to natural wear and tear. However, this can also be caused by external shocks (it can […]
Two Way Radios Move from Analog to Digital with a Gateway
For companies to be efficiently functional in today’s digital world, tapping modern communication tools is inevitable. Communication, after all, is fundamental to virtually all types of organizations. Supervisors communicate to team members to relay instructions; team members communicate with each other to accomplish tasks. And if you’re organization is relying on two-way radios to communicate, […]
Farmhouse Kitchen Design Ideas You Can Try Today
There’s a certain kind of warmth, coziness, and approachable appeal that you can find in farmhouse kitchens. A farmhouse kitchen design is typically characterized by using natural materials like local hardwood and the spaciousness of countertops and sinks (which are meant to accommodate generous family meals). Farmhouse style kitchens also feature vintage kitchen accessories and […]
Testing Laboratories Use Special Small Scale Vessels and Tanks
Chemical and pharmaceutical products are helpful in people’s daily lives. But before they hit the shelves or are used as an ingredient for another product, there’s a detailed process that transpires in a manufacturing facility. From custom reactor vessels to stainless steel tanks, a chemical manufacturing plant that produces such products uses a complex variety […]
Precision Instruments for Measurement: What You Need To Know
Improve your measurement accuracy with more efficient instrumentation. This article delves into the different types of precision instruments from telescope illuminators to inclinometers. Inclinometers. Also known as clinometers, are instruments used to measure the angles of a slope. An inclinometer manufacturer would also designs tools to measure the angle of the elevation or depression of […]
Radio Systems That Operate Over Secure IP
Despite the emergence of modern ways to communicate, many organizations still rely on radio systems. But thanks to the advancement of radio over IP technology, gone are the days when communication via radio devices would be hindered by distance and other barriers just to get the other party to talk to the one on the […]
Kitchen Cabinets & ADA Compliant Kitchens
Passed in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a landmark piece of legislation designed to protect people with disabilities (PWDs) from discrimination. This comprehensive law also covers how the kitchen — the very heart of a home — should have barrier-free layouts among other accommodations so that even PWDs can freely and safely […]
The CO2 Extraction Process: What You Need To Know
When you think of carbon dioxide, you probably define it as the gas that we, humans, exhale. Environmentalists know it as a primary greenhouse gas that is harmful to the atmosphere. But did you know that CO2 is widely used in many different industries such as food and beverage, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals? With the aid […]