L.A. port is hatching a revitalization
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 01:21
in Physics & Chemistry
PortTechLA, a business incubator run by a group that includes the port and city, will nurture start-ups that make products that reduce pollution and shippers' dependence on fossil fuels. Alex Weil's football-sized invention ranks high on the improbability scale: a filter that cleans an engine's oil so long that after three years of testing on 17 Idaho tour buses, financed by the Energy Department, the filters were still going strong.