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Thursday, June 25, 2009

AROUND N.M.

Journal Staff and Wire
      Hybrid Turbine Firm Gets Startup Grant
A Santa Fe company that builds a turbine integrating solar and wind energy to produce electricity on location has been awarded a $10,000 Roadrunner grant to support startup operations, the Albuquerque-based Technology Ventures Corp. said this week.
       Bluenergy Solarwind Inc. manufactures the Solarwind turbine, a first-of-its-kind hybrid for commercial, government and residential on-site power generation.
       “We have great confidence in the leadership and management of Bluenergy Solarwind and believe the company will fill a unique niche within the renewable energy space,” TVC president and CEO Sherman McCorkle said of the award.
       Bluenergy Solarwind president Joel Goldbatt said the company would use the TVC grant to purchase components and engineering services for its turbine models.

       Lab's Computer Remains Fastest
LOS ALAMOS — Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer remains the fastest in the world. It's the third time in a row that the northern New Mexico laboratory's computer has led the Top 500 list, issued twice a year.
       The Roadrunner turned in a performance of 1.105 petaflops per second. A petaflop is a quadrillion floating-point operations per second.

       State Cleaning Up Superfund Site
SANTA FE — The state Environment Department has started cleaning up the Cimarron Mining Corp. Superfund site in southern New Mexico.
       The project is aimed at preventing low levels of cyanide from seeping into groundwater at the 10-acre site in Carrizozo. The project, estimated to cost more than $141,000, will be completed Friday.
       Workers are filling depressions at the site to stop water from collecting and filtering into the shallow aquifer.
       Cimarron Mining used a solution of cyanide salt and metal stripper to recover metal from ore transported to the site between 1979 and 1982.
       The mill was previously operated by Sierra Blanca Mining and Milling Co. for the extraction of gold with cyanide. Both processes generated liquid waste containing cyanide and heavy metals.

       Disinfection Firm Takes On Macau Job
MIOX Corp,, an Albuquerque-based water disinfection company, has been selected by City of Dreams, an entertainment and gaming complex in Macau, China, to provide disinfection equipment for the resort's spas and swimming pools.
       In partnership with theie exclusive distributor, MIOX Asia Ltd, Hong Kong, MIOX Corporation said in a news release it has installed eight mixed-oxidant units in the aquatic facilities of three City of Dreams hotels.
       Three MIOX SAL-40 units and one MIOX-251 unit were installed at five vitality pools, a hot pool, and swimming pools at the Crown Hotel. In addition, four more MIOX units were installed at the Hard Rock Hotel and the Hyatt, the company said.

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