CEO

Carlos Albero Rojas

Carlos is the CEO of Ecoportal and an engineer with strong expertise in technical and industrial topics. He previously worked at international companies such as Siemens and speaks Spanish, German, English, and Italian.

47 articles for News Flow
Wind Power A blade lifter gripping a turbine blade nearly vertical on a trailer in a narrow Scottish street

A hydraulic blade lifter raised 21 turbine blades at a steep angle to squeeze them through the narrow streets of the Scottish market town of Hawick, and the deliveries still took a whole winter to finish

SEP 22 · 5 MIN
Solar Power Solar panels Piolenc vineyard shading Grenache vines in southern France, 3 660 square

Grenache vines at a 3,660 square foot pilot in southern France ripened a week later under tilting panels, and a tasting panel found the shaded wines consistently fruitier than the open rows beside them

SEP 21 · 5 MIN
News Excavated entrance of a sealed prehistoric cave near Fureidis with flint tools on a cloth tray, road crew above

A road crew above Fureidis hit a cave sealed for 400,000 years and holding about 100 stone tools, so the new road was built on a bridge over it instead of through it

SEP 21 · 5 MIN
Mobility Harbor pilot climbing a rope pilot ladder up a cargo ship hull, pilots make 3

Pilots make 3 million ladder climbs a year onto moving hulls worldwide, and a newly mandatory global standard will force every one of those ladders out of service within 36 months of manufacture

SEP 20 · 6 MIN
Machinery Preserved walking dragline Oddball boom and bucket at Swillington near Leeds

With a 1,200 ton body and only nine minutes of power left, Britain’s last large walking dragline walked backward 160 feet into permanent preservation

SEP 20 · 6 MIN
News Volunteers typed 3.7 million weather readings

Volunteers typed 3.7 million weather readings out of navy logbook pages from the Pacific war, but the warm ocean those pages describe is probably an artifact of how the temperatures were taken

SEP 16 · 4 MIN
Machinery Rusted Ohio dragline bucket at Miner's Memorial Park in Morgan County meadow, lifted 325 tons

A walking dragline in southeastern Ohio picked up 325 tons of earth in a single bite for 22 years and moved twice what the Panama Canal took out, and the only part of it left standing is the bucket

SEP 15 · 4 MIN
Solar Power Floating solar panels on six islands at the Les Ilots Blandin quarry lake, Haute-Marne France

Panels laid across 6 flooded gravel pits in northeastern France cover 314 acres and supply about 37 thousand people, but the anchoring alone took 21 weeks and 2 barges before a float went in

SEP 14 · 5 MIN
Wind Power Retired wind blade columns supporting a full-scale highway overhead sign structure in Houston, along 40 foot

A sign gantry spanning 40 feet over a Houston roadway was cut from 1 retired turbine blade and rode out a hurricane with gusts over 100 miles an hour, where the material bill came in far under steel

SEP 14 · 5 MIN
Construction Three steel arches on a barge being floated down the Hudson River at dawn, steel arch spans

Steel arch spans weighing 5 million pounds each rode the Hudson River for 30 hours apiece, and crews then jacked all three of them 60 feet straight up over the Hackensack

SEP 13 · 5 MIN
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