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
Mobility Cliff railway car and its water tank on a steep track

A cliff railway in north Devon has been hauling people 500 feet up a hillside on water and gravity alone for 136 years, but on a busy day the crew move both cars without spending a drop

SEP 11 · 5 MIN
Construction Cutterhead of a boring machine reached through a pressure chamber

Divers lived under pressure inside a chamber bolted to a boring machine 302 feet beneath the sea off Ningbo and changed 104 worn cutters in 21 days, where the rock ahead of them runs harder than most concrete ever gets

SEP 11 · 5 MIN
News Weathered fence post on the Palo Duro Canyon rim overlooking the gorge below, 3 048 acres

A Texas ranching family put 5 square miles of canyon rim under a conservation easement, while the view it keeps clear is the one behind an outdoor stage that has run the same play for almost 60 years

SEP 11 · 5 MIN
Construction Tugboats towing a Fehmarnbelt immersed tunnel concrete element across the Baltic Sea

Each of the 89 concrete boxes being cast beside a Danish harbor is 712 feet long and gets towed to sea by tugboats, while the box itself very nearly floats and is sunk on purpose with water pumped into it

SEP 10 · 4 MIN
Machinery A 50,000-ton forging press ram descending onto a glowing aluminum billet in a Cleveland forge shop

One press in Cleveland shuts on a glowing block of aluminum with 50 thousand tons behind it and squeezes out a fighter bulkhead in a single stroke, and 7 stories of the machine sit below the shop floor

SEP 10 · 4 MIN
Wind Power Five curved turbine blades repurposed as playground tunnels and towers in Rotterdam

Four play towers in a Rotterdam park are the cut root ends of 5 retired rotor blades, while the carbon saved against a conventional playground of the same size comes to roughly 90 percent

SEP 10 · 4 MIN
Construction Collapsed luffing jib crane jib resting on scaffolding at a Kensington construction site, single connection pin

A tower crane on a west London housing site lost its luffing jib at 10 in the morning and dropped it onto the scaffolding below, and about a hundred people were already off the site when it landed

SEP 10 · 5 MIN
Machinery 6,000-ton Art Deco terminal riding rubber tire dollies across Newark runway, 5 000 ton

A 5,000 ton Art Deco terminal in New Jersey was cut into three pieces and rolled three quarters of a mile across a working airfield, and the dollies had to hold every lift point in step from the first foot to the last

SEP 10 · 5 MIN
News Laptop showing automated asteroid detection software on a desk beside a telescope eyepiece, 13 year old

A grade 7 student in Ontario wrote software that reads telescope images and flags the moving dots by itself, where 94 in every 100 people who sign up for that hunt give it up before they finish

SEP 10 · 5 MIN
Wind Power A monopile foundation being lowered into the North Sea from a heavy-lift vessel off Jutland, single vessel set

One crane vessel set all 72 foundation tubes for Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm in five months, and the covers capping their open tops were designed to be taken off and used again

SEP 9 · 5 MIN
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