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Wave Power Still Not on the U.S. Horizon

Wave energy power hold promise as a new, renewable energy source. Nonetheless, moving beyond proof-of-concept in varied prototypes to full-scale commercial introduction is stilling running into roadblocks. The Aguçadora Wave Park, a commercial wave farm off the coast of Portugal, scheduled to be brought online in 2007, is but one...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, David Phillips, Finavera, Humboldt County

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Wave Power Still Not on the U.S. Horizon

Wave energy power hold promise as a new, renewable energy source. Nonetheless, moving beyond proof-of-concept in varied prototypes to full-scale commercial introduction is stilling running into roadblocks. The Aguçadora Wave Park, a commercial wave farm off the coast of Portugal, scheduled to be brought online in 2007, is but one...

Tags: Electricity, Farm, Energy, Telecom & Utilities, David Phillips

Blog posts 2008-04-08

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Taurus Thunderbolt: the levergun alternative

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I've often written the first firearm I ever shot was a top-break .22 pistol on my uncle's farm. However, as I have been thinking about it lately I have come to realize that's probably not true. Like many young boys growing up in the '30s, '40s,...

Articles 2008-08-01

Palmer Property Development Transforms Sonoma Vineyard Into Dream Home

One of the latest real estate trends isfractional ownership, an increasingly popular way for people to have thebest vacation or second home properties at a fraction of the cost. In theNorthern California wine country, there is a new kind of fractionalproperty for those who have always wanted to be...

Articles 2008-07-17

Sanderson Farms Postpones Construction of $127 Million Poultry Complex in North Carolina, an Industrial Info News Alert

Researched by Industrial Info Resources(Sugar Land, Texas) -- Sanderson Farms Incorporated (NASDAQ:SAFM) (Laurel,Mississippi) has postponed its plans to build a feed mill, poultryprocessing plant and hatchery in Kinston, North Carolina. In April,Sanderson proposed the complex with the capacity to process 1.25 millionbirds per week, anticipating construction kickoff this summer and...

Articles 2008-07-17

Dairy farm spurs FLDS feud

A family feud of sorts is developing over a southern Utah dairy farm with ties to the Fundamentalist LDS Church. A lawsuit was filed in 5th District Court in Cedar City last week against Harker & Sons LC, by 16 men seeking to assert their rights to...

Articles 2008-07-17

AgraGate Disburses $4.2 Million to Carbon Credits Customers

Mid-Year Checks Average $2,375 WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- July is harvest time for a new crop - carbon credits - and farmers who have met the requirements for earning these environmental credits are now reaping the benefits. Nearly 1,800 farm operators received payments averaging $2,375...

Articles 2008-07-16

Pure Mendocino® Organic Celebration To Benefit Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County

UKIAH, Calif. -- The bounty of Mendocino County's organic farms, vineyards and coastal waters will be featured at the 4th Annual Pure Mendocino Celebration August 22-24, 2008. Proceeds of the three-day event will benefit the nationally recognized Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County CRCMC. "These events are all about healthy...

Articles 2008-07-16

Orwell gets a prison sentence

Theatre ANIMAL FARM Oxford Castle OXFORD George Orwell's political satire Animal Farm was adapted as a theatre piece by the British theatre director and playwright Ian Wooldridge. The Creation Theatre Company is the latest establishment to take on the adaptation, with a twist:...

Articles 2008-07-16

The Great Escape

We were hosts to the British Cheese Awards on Friday. And so it was that 910 different varieties of cheese arrived at the farm on Thursday. It doesn't sound that bewildering, but a good delicatessen probably only carries a couple of dozen varieties. Mayhem, it was. A cavalcade of cars...

Articles 2008-07-16

Congress rejects Medicare bill veto

WASHINGTON -- Congress on Tuesday rejected President Bush's veto of legislation protecting doctors from a 10.6 percent cut in their reimbursement rates when treating Medicare patients. The override vote in the House was a lopsided 383-41, easily meeting the two-thirds threshold needed to nullify the president's veto....

Articles 2008-07-16

Schneider Power Inks Tentative Project Equity Financing With Energy Farming International

Schneider Power Inc. announced today that it hasentered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding ("MOU") for anestimated C$22 million ($21.8 million) in project equity financing withEnergy Farming Ontario LLC ("EFI") a subsidiary of German wind projectdeveloper Energy Farming International AG to construct and commission 36.5MW of Ontario wind farms. Under...

Articles 2008-07-16

EU presidency eyes farm subsidy deal in November

BRUSSELS AFP — French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier said Tuesday that he hoped to broker a deal on reforming the European Union's vast and expensive farm support scheme in November. "My goal ... is to finalise an accord in the month of November," said Barnier, whose country holds...

Articles 2008-07-15

Dutch Bros. Coffee Fuels 'Relay for Life' with Honorary Day, July 23

Proceeds will Benefit Local Relay For Life Team GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Dutch Bros. Coffee, the spirited private coffee company founded by two Southern Oregon dairy farming brothers, will donate all proceeds from sales on Wednesday, July 23 to the Relay For Life team in each local market....

Articles 2008-07-15

Tennessee's Top Luxury Hotel Takes Five-Star Approach to Funding Preservation of State's Scenic and Historic Land

Partnership Between The Hermitage Hotel and The Land Trust for Tennessee Will Protect About 500 Acres a Year NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The finest hotel in Tennessee has inaugurated an innovative program to save what is finest about Tennessee -- the state's open space, farms,...

Articles 2008-07-15

WindConnect® Joins in Flat Ridge Wind Farm Groundbreaking

Kansas wind farm will produce 100 MW of renewable energy MADISON, Wis., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Westar Energy Inc. and BP Alternative Energy have begun construction of the Flat Ridge Wind Farm site in Barber County, Kansas. The project commencement was celebrated with a groundbreaking ceremony on...

Articles 2008-07-15

Blackstone Group Announces Partnership to Build and Manage 400MW Offshore Wind Farm in Germany

LONDON -- The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) today announced it has formed a partnership with Windland Energieerzeugungs GmbH, founded in 1990 by Joachim Falkenhagen, to complete the development and construction of Meerwind, one of the North Sea's largest wind farm projects. The project, which will be located 80 kilometres off...

Articles 2008-07-15

*Horseplay in bull enclosure

Home News IN BRIEF Hantu, an Arabian horse, runs with a new calf, Billy, in the bullock enclosure at a farm in Newton Abbot, South Devon, after failing to settle in a pen with other horses...

Articles 2008-07-15

Wind Energy America Inc. Rated 'Buy,' by BrokerBank Securities

MINNEAPOLIS -- Wind Energy America Inc. (OTCBB:WNEA) has been rated a Buy by BrokerBank Securities, Philip Wright, CFA. The full report is available via download at https://brokerbanksecurities.com/ Anyone interested in receiving the report via email or updates regarding WNEA research should e-mail ppwright@brokerbanksecurities.com with "WNEA" in...

Articles 2008-07-15

Cyberbullying grows bigger and meaner

Ricky Alatorre doesn't know which classmate surreptitiously hoisted a cellphone camera and snapped his picture or exactly when it happened. All Ricky, 16, knows is the fuzzy yet distinguishable portrait of him in English class showed up on MySpace, on a page that claimed to be his. And...

Articles 2008-07-15