HOLLAND - An energy era ended April 13 in Holland when 76-year-old James De Young Power Plant stopped burning coal and converted to natural gas. Leftover coal still at JDY will be sold to other organizations as part of the preparation for removal of the coal yard and ash ponds in 2017. “JDY is a
SOUTHFIELD - Our latest Diva Tech Talk interview is with Valerie Rogers, MPH, Director of State Government Affairs for HIMSS, a global organization focused on better health through information technology. As a cause-based non-profit, HIMSS North America provides thought leadership, community building, professional development, public policy, and events; and represents 61,000 individual members, 640 corporate
FERNDALE - Oh, do we have some fun and cool stuff on tap for you tonight for episode 139 of ITINTHED in our weekly live podcast broadcast coming from the Podcast Detroit studio. We’re being joined by a guy that builds fully functional computers out of legos, as well as a new dating app that’s
DETROIT - Ben Carpenter paid a return visit to the Internet Advisor to talk about technology and farming. Ben has been a frequent commentator over the years both online and on the phone talking about the technology that he uses to farm over a 1,000 acres of corn, soy and wheat near the Ohio border in southern
DETROIT - Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ is a Detroiter who was named director of the Vatican Observatory in 2015. Consolmagno is a planetary scientist who has studied meteorites and asteroids as an astronomer with the Vatican Observatory since 1993. He had been serving as president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, coordinator of public relations and curator of
LANSING - The effort is not over yet for creating a new energy policy for Michigan as some 10 plants are expected to shut down over the next two weeks, Sen. Mike Nofs said Monday. "It's not dead," Nofs (R-Battle Creek), chair of the Senate Energy and Technology Committee, told Gongwer News Service. After considerable
WASHINGTON DC - The Defense Department christened the Sea Hunter, a 132-foot robot ghost ship designed to seek out and track diesel-powered submarines across the ocean. The start of the test phase for the program on Thursday signals a new dawn for autonomous systems at sea, which, Pentagon officials say, will perform an ever-wider variety
KALAMAZOO - Stryker Corp. has completed its acquisition of defibrillator maker Physio-Control International Inc. and two other major deals. The $1.28 billion cash deal was announced in mid-February and completed Tuesday. Physio-Control makes monitors/defibrillators, automated external defibrillators and CPR-assist devices. The Redmond. Wash.-based emergency medical response company also provides data management and support services. It
WASHINGTON DC - Climate change is a major threat to human health, with extreme heat likely to kill 27,000 Americans annually by 2100, according to a report released by the White House. The report, by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, outlines numerous ways global warming could devastate public health in the U.S. this century.
ANN ARBOR - The deadline to enter the $125,000 2016 Center For Manufacturing Sciences Technology Competition, designed to introduce new technologies to the Department of Defense maintenance facilities to help sustain material readiness at reduced cost, April 19. The competition is a collaboration between the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences and the Office of the
