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Food science: increasing crop yields

...s the amount of rainfall, the occurrence of frost, wind erosion, etc., can be detrimental to the success of a harvest. The stress in plants induced by these effects may be mitigated or at least partially counterbalanced by the informed use of irrigation, fertilizers, and so forth. To take steps to offset ...

Legislature should look to Wisconsin's natural energy advantages

...try or the world, but there may be limits on where wind turbines can be placed in Wisconsin. Existing wind pathways have generally been identified and the state's utilities are already working with others to...

Wisconsin can offer what a federal energy research lab needs

...c sugars, soybeans, solar collectors, corn stover, wind farms, grease, waste from paper mills, and much more. State businesses, architects, and builders are national leaders in planning and constructing green buildings that save energy and money. Wisconsin policymakers and utility company executives hav...

Connecture's Maynard finds IT business opportunity in adversity

...tiful, but Maynard and a core group hung around to wind down local operations. The company wanted to retain his services under an extended employment agreement, but he was uncomfortable with the loose commitment. At the same time, he saw opportunity. In a bold move, he declined the employment offer and n...

Johnson Controls adds renewable energy unit

...othermal for the Utah Department of Corrections , wind turbines for the Erie (Illinois) Community Unit School District, solar energy for the Denver Federal Center , and biomass boilers for the Indiana Department of Corrections . The Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls is best known for its building effic...

Doyle proposes $2M for venture capital center

...ies such as ethanol and clean technologies such as wind and solar power, plus biotechnology businesses involved in stem cell research. The Doyle Administration has worked to advance both industries, calling for an end to federal funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research and dedicating $40 milli...

State agencies propose venture capital center

...ies such as ethanol and clean technologies such as wind and solar power, plus biotechnology businesses involved in stem cell research. "It only makes sense that those companies have access to capital and that they also have an exit strategy, either a strategic buy out or another round of financing, or an...

The misguided talent war

... HR executives were getting used to having a brisk wind behind them in the race to find and retain talent, the demographic and economic winds reverse - blowing back against them and at gale force no less. As scores of articles in the press and reports issued by various associations, think tanks, and cons...

An upside down view of the future

...ch appears to be one of the worlds biggest natural wind tunnels. Im told it is absolutely howling here much of the time winds sometimes so fierce that it difficult to walk against them. These winds blow like a southern hemisphere Mistral. They also make an apt metaphor for the type of climate in which b...

BarCamp talk turns to Internet dating

...hen she is a professional and you are not going to wind up in a genuine love relationship. Don't mention the fact that you are lonely and depressed, even if you are. If you are truly lonely and depressed you should not attempt Internet dating. People who are truly lonely and depressed represent a huge ps...

Wausau start up secures $560K for GPS maps

...o knew Forss from church, stepped in. Voss caught wind of the plan, agreed to contribute his extensive sales and marketing background, and in January 2005 the team launched Trailmaps. Cheryl Gain, a technology development specialist with the Bureau of Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin Department of Com...

State should keep open mind on nuclear power

...and practices, the projects could involve solar or wind power, fuel cells, or greater reliance on renewabl...roposing the construction of an ethanol plant or a wind turbine farm. None of this is to suggest Wisconsin shouldn't invest in biofuels. The state would be...

Wisconsin can lead the way to energy independence

... fuels. From ethanol production to solar panels to wind and hydro power, Wisconsin is ready to lead the way. When it comes to our nation's energy future, let's build an economy that depends less on the Mideast and more on the Midwest. Jim Doyle, a Democrat, is the governor of Wisconsin. The opinions e...

Some great insights into the current Mergers & Acquisitions Market

...n ensuring that you don't go down a path where you wind up finding out later that this was a bad match. While this sounds so basic, it isn't. All in all, the panels provided some practical insights for finding successes and failures that armed everyone with some valuable concepts to integrate into their ...

WiSys to distribute $1 million in research funds

...re Wise" program, a renewable initiative that uses wind and biomass energy from a dairy farm and landfill in northeastern Wisconsin. Going international Last month, researchers from UW-Platteville began exploring technological advances from a German electrode developer that could reduce the cost of ...

Economic collaboration in Denver sets tall goal for Wisconsin

...any may start its site search in one community and wind up in another and there dont appear to be any hard feelings among the losers because the entire region wins. As Clark described the mission of the Metro Denver EDC, it is leadership by service versus leadership by proclamation. Its goal is to crea...

Greg Gianfortes Bootstrapping Principles

... from the urgency of initiating this processso you wind up delaying the day when you screw up your courage... of near- and long-term success. 8. Bootstrappers wind up owning much, if not all, of what they create. This is a huge consideration. When bootstrappers su...

Now the real work begins

... There are other examples of technologies that got wind in their sails last week, wind that will take clever navigators to transition them from the choppy waters of an early venture to th...

Reading Tommy Thompson's diary: Imagining unspoken thoughts about 2008

...octors aren't writing illegible prescriptions that wind up killing people, and they shrugged their shoulders. When people suggested I might make a good second-term Homeland Defense secretary, given I had already run an agency that set up a national health emergency response system, they put me on ice. ...

In the wake of Katrina, more questions than answers about global climate change

...rms are getting larger and reaching higher maximum wind speeds than storms in the past. There seems to be a clear correlation, Emanuel said, between stronger storms and a temperature increase of 0.5 degrees Celsius on the surface of the sea during the same period. Not so fast, said a leading hurricane fo...

Tornadoes put technology to work

...ation. That combination is sensitive to changes in wind speed, and a sudden change - known as a wind shear - can work the air into a rotation, creating a "rotating thunderstorm cell" known as a mesocyc...

Madison tech college gets grant to bolster renewable energy education

...e transportation, photovoltaic, solar home design, wind power, and biomass. MATC will also create a series of cutting edge, web-based, interactive "learning objects" that give students virtual access to renewable energy technologies....

A high-tech Trek at the Tour de France

...ewest 55 GSM fiber. Computer modeling supplements wind tunnels The best materials, though, don't mean mu...uite costly to make trips down to a real low-speed wind tunnel," Sagan explained, noting the best such facilities are all the way in California and Texas. "...

UW students compete to make hydrogen cars, other renewable projects

...ate fully on renewable sources of energy, adding a wind generator, a hydrogen fuel cell and solar panels l...gen fuel developed by Virent Energy Systems . The wind generator and solar panel can be set up when the car is parked, giving it the capability to recharge...

Modine Manufacturing makes hydrogen generator with ChevronTexaco

...nomically from renewable sources, such as solar or wind power." Silva said they would like to do a field trial of the technology in a fueling station by the second quarter of 2006. Proponents of the technology are hopeful that hydrogen extraction will continue to become more and more efficient, eventual...

Innovation prize-winner would help firefighters get out alive

...urn around and get lost ... a lot of the time they wind up walking around with their hand on the wall until they find a door," Nault said. "We're giving them a frame of reference, a map of the fire." The Tong Prototype Award for best working model went to Sean McHone, creator of a remote-controlled fishi...

Governor wants $2 million for biofuels in budget

...rn for ethanol, Doyle said in a statement. We have wind and sun and biofuels. And we have ingenuity. According to gubernatorial spokesperson Melanie Fonder, the establishment of the Biofuels Initiative is one of several key pieces building on Doyles Grow Wisconsin plan. It continues the work of the Task ...

Start-ups grow up

...While a 35% drop in venture investing may take the wind out of the sails of early-stage financing seekers, the picture might not be as gloomy as the numbers suggest. For one thing, the Merc article speculated that many start-ups delay announcing their funding in order to stay in "stealth mode" longer. Th...

UW space scientists use Keck telescope to study wild weather of Uranus

...r example, are being used to trace and help define wind patterns and predict the motions of the large storm systems that sweep across the pale blue planet. The large, longer-lived cloud features of Uranus may be underpinned by giant hurricane-like vortices, as weve seen on Neptune, Sromovsky said, but it...

Thats my trademark

...s While these keyword-triggered advertising cases wind their way through the justice system, advertisers may be well-advised to take a conservative approach and avoid the purchase of keywords that are the trademarks of others (especially marks of competitors), unless those trademarks have some relevancy ...

Lord of the Rings visual effects creator talks about entrepreneurial experiences

...ody, testing all aspects including hair and cloak wind shifts and allowed them to map each actors movement and create individual motion shots for various scenes. Blue-screen technology was also utilized freely, making Orlando Bloom climbing up sandbags and mattresses look like an enormous Oliphant and t...

Wisconsin ignores Energy Priority Statutes call for conservation and efficiency

...as and coal power plants and 420 Megawatts (MW) of wind power are on the drawing board while only 55 MW is on the books for energy efficiency, and even that is only thanks to the conditional PSC approval of WE Energies Power the Future initiative for southeastern Wisconsin. Recent studies done by private ...

Alliant to add 100 megawatts of wind power by 2005, raise gas prices

...ny confirmed Thursday it will add 100 megawatts of wind generation in Wisconsin by 2005. WP&L will accept proposals from bidders for 10 to 100 MW wind generation in one or more locations in Wisconsin, which would stay in place for at least 15 years. ...

WE Energies Is Not Letting Wind Power Blow Away

...greement with two developers that will build three wind farms increasing the total amount of wind power produced in Wisconsin by 400%. Under the agreement, the two developers, Navitas Energy, based...

Four steps toward securing more reliable electric power for Wisconsin

...he hydrogen economy. Cogeneration plants, improved wind turbines, geothermal power for heating and cooling, solar photovoltaic and biomass are among other promising technologies. Also part of the mix is distributed generation. Distributed electric power refers to small electric generating units close to ...