The solar slough
Believe it or not, there is enough sunshine on the Southern Oregon Coast to justify installing a solar panel or two. That is according to Kevin Berg, program and events coordinator with Solar Oregon, a Portland-based nonprofit that espouses the benef...
 5.2K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 219.0 South Korea rocket misses target orbit
GOHEUNG, South Korea (AP) South Korea launched its first rocket today, just months after rival North Korea s launch drew international anger, but space officials said the satellite it carried failed to enter its intended orbit. A Science Ministry s...
3.1K - Aug. 25, 2009; scored 151.0 Wave energy seems like a winner
A place as green as Oregon should become a leader in alternative energy. If that alternative energy can be harnessed in the waves that lap at our public shoreline, that's even better. We welcome the efforts of Ocean Power Technologies to develop the ...
1.3K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 151.0 Green technology still costly, but prices should go down over time
One by one workers placed white polystyrate blocks on top of each other, building what resembles a Lego house on Lindy Lane off Ocean Boulevard in Coos Bay. The 2,400-square-foot structure is actually going to be a commercial-sized garage. U.S. Homeb...
4.6K - Mar. 21, 2009; scored 169.0 Wave energy company hopes for federal money
COOS BAY The jobs are coming so Ocean Power Technologies insists. OPT spokesman Len Bergstein said Monday the company wants to get stimulus funds from the federal government. We have a strong interest in presenting a project that would be jobs-re...
2.5K - Feb. 3, 2009; scored 254.0 Feds OK wave energy at Newport
COOS BAY The announcement came as a surprise to everyone. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission s Thursday order issuing a preliminary permit for a 200- to 400-buoy wave energy project off of Newport shocked Ocean Power Technologies leaders as w...
4.3K - Feb. 3, 2009; scored 193.0 Distress beacon changes start Sunday
BOSTON (AP) Like callers dialing 911 and getting no answer, boaters could end up stranded or worse if they haven t upgraded their emergency distress beacons by this weekend. But the improved technology will speed rescues and spare agencies from...
4.4K - Jan. 31, 2009; scored 127.0 Let's not sacrifice traditional fishing jobs
Development debates often hinge on jobs vs. the environment, or jobs vs. quality of life. The wave energy issue seems to hinge instead on jobs vs. jobs. Specifically, new manufacturing jobs vs. old fishing jobs. The situation calls to mind the prover...
2.6K - Jan. 29, 2009; scored 151.0 Agency comments ask for cutbacks in wave energy plan
Ocean Power Technologies is feeling pressure as local groups, the state and even the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission urge the company to shrink its 200-buoy Coos Bay plan. Oregon Wave Energy Partners I, as Ocean Power Technologies, filed its not...
3.4K - Jan. 26, 2009; scored 243.0 American Bridge lands buoy deal
REEDSPORT Two major companies, one in Clackamas, one in Reedsport, have made an agreement that could buoy the local work force. Oregon Iron Works and American Bridge Manufacturing s Reedsport office have agreed to work together to build wave energy...
4.1K - Jan. 26, 2009; scored 167.0 Text of President Obama's inaugural address
Text of President Barack Obama s inaugural address on Tuesday, as prepared for delivery and released by the Presidential Inaugural Committee. OBAMA: My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you hav...
13.5K - Jan. 20, 2009; scored 193.0 Firm tests wave power in Hawaii
KANEOHE BAY MARINE CORPS BASE, Hawaii The road to the lookout is rarely used. Grass grows in cracks in the pavement. Just to get there requires crossing a golf course, enduring odd stares from golfers. But behind the golf course, over the hill and ...
6.8K - Nov. 29, 2008; scored 1000.0 Wave energy has to benefit more than the developers
Ocean Power Technologies has promised that there won t be buoys in our front yard unless the community supports them. Comments along that line last week from Herb Nock, the company s vice president of business development, might have been welcome new...
2.9K - Nov. 13, 2008; scored 605.0 | 
