DETROIT - While other automakers at the North American International Auto show proudly displayed their latest hybrid gasoline-electric powered vehicles, or concept plug-in electric cars and trucks, California-based manufacturer Tesla Motors showed off its electric-powered Rodster that can accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour in around 3 seconds and travel more than 250
SOUTHFIELD - Grown-ups please take note: More than 800 students from throughout Michigan have come up with ingenious ways to re-use, recycle and preserve water in the year 2100 and beyond. For instance, in the year 2176 homes in the ?New Southfield? will be WE-DOMES (Water Efficient Dwellings Optimizing Maximum Energy Self-Sufficiently) and in Navajoville,
KALAMAZOO - Strong winds will be welcome at Kalamazoo Valley Community College from now on, but not on Jan. 27-28, thank you. Those are the tentative dates for crews to use a large crane to lift a trio of 25-foot blades to the top of a 40-yard tower on the Texas Township Campus, install them,
LANSING - Governor Jennifer Granholm this week signed bills into law that are aimed at improving the environment by controlling phosphorus pollution in the Great Lakes. PA 426 (SB 362 ) and PA 427 (SB 152 ) would mainly apply to household cleaners, limiting the level of phosphorus to .5 percent by July 1, 2010
GRAND RAPIDS - As much as 20 percent of your heating bills can be from poorly insulated foundations. So Great Lakes Superior Walls, which uses foam and other insulating properties, can save homeowners a lot of money each year on their energy bills. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
GRAND RAPIDS - If you want to save hundreds of dollars each year on your heating and cooling costs, perhaps upwards of one thousand dollars, you ought to have a home energy inspection done, says home energy auditor Gary Hammerlund of www.homeenergyinspections.com. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
LANSING - Consumers Energy will be able to charge more for its natural gas service and Detroit Edison more for electricity, but both increases were substantially below what the utilities requested under orders issued Tuesday by the Public Service Commission. Edison was allowed an $83.6 million increase in its rates, but that was below both
DETROIT - Cash-starved General Motors has put plans on hold for a new factory to build the Chevy Volt hybrid engine in Flint. The move is part of GM's efforts to reduce expenses as it appeals to the White House for federal aid of at least $8 billion to stay in business for the next
ADRIAN - GreenShift Corporation on Wednesday announced that it has executed agreements to receive a $38 million investment to produce 20 million gallons per year of biodiesel from corn oil extracted from ethanol plants. Under the terms of the agreements, GreenShift will receive an investment of $38 million in a new GreenShift joint venture subsidiary
HOLLAND - The Sierra Club announced Monday that it had sued the Holland Board of Public Works over plans to expand its James De Young power plant. The group is arguing that the plan does not call for sufficient pollution controls on the expansion and does not address prior federal Clean Air Act violations. But