DETROIT — The second annual Michigan Sustainability Conference will be held Thursday, Sept. 14 at the Crowne Plaza Detroit, 2 Washington Boulevard. The event, organized by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, is designed to promote meaningful engagement with business professionals surrounding the topic of sustainability. Keynote speakers will include Joel Howrani Heeres, director of
ANN ARBOR - A study of lead service lines in Flint's damaged drinking water system reveals a Swiss cheese pattern in the pipes' interior crust, with holes where the lead used to be. The findings—led by researchers at the University of Michigan—support the generally accepted understanding that lead leached into the system because that water
HOUGHTON - Michigan Tech’s Summer Youth Program is hosting two groups of PAAMEE students from the Detroit area for week-long, hands-on summer camps on clean energy. One group was at Tech last week; the other is on campus this week. The PAAMEE program, funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), runs 1.5 years for each group.
ANN ARBOR—A new research tool to safeguard drinking water is now keeping a watchful eye on Lake Erie. This week, a robotic lake-bottom laboratory began tracking the levels of dangerous toxins produced by cyanobacteria that bloom each summer in the lake's western basin. The goal is to provide advance warning to municipal drinking water managers
ANN ARBOR - The science fiction of invisibility cloaking devices may become science fact after University of Michigan researchers announced this week they have developed a new technique that peppers metallic nanoparticles into semiconductors. The advance also could boost the efficiency of LED lighting by about 50 percent. It's the first technique that can inexpensively
ANN ARBOR—The sun-powered vehicle that the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Solar Car Team will race in a global contest this fall is the smallest and most aerodynamic that any U-M team has ever built. The long, skinny, single-fairing car is named Novum—Latin for “new thing.” For a week in October, a 17-member race crew will
ANN ARBOR - Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water, University of Michigan researchers and their business partners predict that western Lake Erie will again experience a significant harmful algal bloom this summer, approaching the record bloom of 2015. The Lake Erie forecast was released Thursday by the National Oceanic
JACKSON - Small, independently owned power plants across Michigan are locked in a battle with Jackson-based Consumers Energy over what may very well decide their fate. In a rate case before the Michigan Public Service Commission that’s expected to be settled in mid July, state regulators are setting a new course for how these independently owned facilities
LANSING – Utility customers with rooftop solar systems, known as solar distributed generation (DG), are providing economic support to Michigan’s electric grid and should not be overcharged to support it. That is among the findings of an analysis by the Institute for Energy Innovation, “Solar Energy in Michigan: The Economic Impact of Distributed Generation (DG)
ANN ARBOR - A majority of Americans across the political spectrum believe states are responsible for addressing climate change in the absence of federal policy, according to a new survey by University of Michigan researchers. The National Surveys on Energy and Environment track public opinion on climate change and energy policy. This update gives a
