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ANTA MONICA — California's campaigns introduce candidates not only to the state's voters but to its immensity. In Bakersfield, Meg Whitman, 52, the former CEO of eBay who is campaigning for the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nomination, learned about carrots. In 1968, the Grimm brothers were selling vegetables at a roadside stand in Anaheim. They moved to Bakersfield and today Grimmway Farms and one rival provide 80 percent of the nation's carrots, partly because the brothers figured out how to make the vegetables pleasingly uniform in shape. Who knew? Whitman didn't, and the story, which she tells enthusiastically and at length, delights her because it confirms her conviction that California "was built by intellectual... [read full story]
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory believe they’ve identified a simpler way to generate biofuels – a one-step process to convert cellulose found in plant material and other biomass...
Developing a smarter grid means deploying technology that works together and policy that enables profit, while justifying the return on investment in a tough economy. Experts from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest...
To use hydrogen as a clean energy source, some engineers want to pack hydrogen into a larger molecule, rather than compressing the gas into a tank. A gas flows easily out of a tank, but getting hydrogen out of a molecule...
EVERETT, WA--(Marketwire - News) received notice from the Nasdaq Stock Market on September 15, 2009, stating that the minimum bid price of the Corporation's common stock was below $1.00 per share for thirty consecutive business...
