Updated story: Police release names of five killed in head-on crash on US-23 Three Okemos teenagers and two Ohio residents were among the five people killed in a head-on crash on US-23 north of Ann Arbor Sunday afternoon that also seriously injured four others, including three children, according to Green ...
Michigan venture capitalist Jeff Bocan, one of few people to see Accio Energy's potentially revolutionary wind energy device, is enthusiastic about the Ann Arbor-based startup's technology. Accio Energy is developing a new stationary wind energy device that generates electricity without moving parts.
Ann Arbor-based Accio Energy recently won a $250,000 federal contract to continue developing its potentially revolutionary wind energy device, which would generate electricity without the moving parts associated with a traditional wind turbine. Accio General Manager Jeff Basch said the firm received the contract with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research ...
In Michigan, hope quietly brews in the midst of economic disaster. It’s a counterintuitive statement in light of Friday’s release of a University of Michigan economic forecast predicting that Michigan’s unemployment rate would top 15 percent through 2011. Michigan’s economic collapse sometimes feels hopeless. We've all experienced it.
Michigan has some natural advantages that could help it become a significant player in the renewable energy sector, but challenges remain with the financing and public policy necessary to make it happen, according to a panel of entrepreneurs and industry experts at the University of Michigan Friday morning. Speaking at ...