To support the necessary growth and expansion of offshore wind in order to meet the EU’s 20% renewables target, several barriers need to be overcome. Low feed-in tariffs for offshore, limited and costly grid connections and complex authorisation procedures are seen as key obstacles by the offshore industry, delegates of the European Offshore Wind Energy [...]

The CFM A15 and CFM A17 vacuums from Nilfisk-Advance America operate entirely without electricity. The CFM A15 and CFM A17 connect to any compressed-air system and use air pressure driven through a venturi to create suction powerful enough to handle even large debris in applications such as metalworking, construction and manufacturing.
The CFM A15 is compact [...]

OMAHA, Neb. — Hundreds of millions of tons of coal are hauled from northeast Wyoming each year as fast as the nation’s two largest railroads can carry it away.
But Union Pacific and BNSF haven’t been quick enough to satisfy utilities in the last few years, and America’s appetite for coal is expected only to grow.
That’s [...]

Tech-friendly features include help figuring everything out
No more waiting all day for the cable guy Need help getting on the Web, troubleshooting TV reception or installing a telephone?
In one of Charlotte’s newest subdivisions, residents need only call the neighborhood “technology concierge.”
Homeowners in Cedar Mill, under construction in west Mecklenburg near the Gaston line, will have [...]

“The American Image,” which recently closed at the Bevier Gallery at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is an exhibit of the history of American poster design. The exhibit encapsulates the last 100 years of graphic design in America in the featured posters by a range of designers and artists.
The posters depict a variety of subjects [...]

Control board. Tax hike. Brain drain. It can be hard sometimes not to focus on the negative things happening in Western New York.
With so much going awry in the dawn of the 21st century, it’s easy to forget how vital a cog in the nation Buffalo was 100 years ago. A locally produced special airing [...]

‘Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, a German-born pioneer of modern architecture, was famous for his aphorism ‘God is in the details’,” says Asaf Sadeh as he gently pushes an iced cappuccino out of his elbow space. “He was right, and this is the philosophy I and my partner, Guy Zur, live by in our own [...]

On Monday, February 20 this year, President Olusegun Obasanjo received a delegation of Chinese investors at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa.
In the course of his response to the speech made by the Chinese visitors, the president made a pledge which made big banner headlines in all the nation’s newspapers the following day. He pledged that [...]

A 12-year-old Benton girl’s design has been chosen as the logo to represent Benton Utilities.
Hollie Wright, daughter of Glen and Heather Wright, was named winner in a logo contest that drew more than 40 entries, Linda McAdoo, the city’s purchasing agent, said.
Hollie is a seventh-grader at Benton Middle School. Her design features the words Benton [...]