Ormat has been designing and building renewable energy systems

“Finding the resource is the first challenge. Then you need someone like us to build the facility,” says Ormat’s chief executive Doron Blachar. “Ormat is doing the entire project, from making the plant’s elements, shipping them to Dominica, mainly from Israel, and then constructing the power plant.” Ormat has been designing and building renewable energy … Read more

Letting off steam: How Dominica’s volcanoes will boost its green energy

With rainforests, waterfalls, volcanoes and hot springs, the Caribbean island of Dominica’s dramatic landscape is a haven for adventure-seeking ecotourists. It attracted 83,966 visitors last year, a 13% rise from 2023, and led by new direct flights from the US, and the opening of more hotels. Nicknamed the “Nature Island”, and now recovered from the extensive damage … Read more

Food and music as culture

American food industrialised in the 20th Century, and so did biscuits. An unnamed Black cook for Pullman Company trains used a premade flour mix to produce biscuits on the fly; his work inspired Bisquick, the first commercial biscuit mix. In 1931, Lively Willoughby patented canned refrigerated biscuit dough. Biscuit diversity flourished, too, such as cathead biscuits and … Read more