Energy

If the full 18% rate increase is approved, a typical residential customer with a monthly usage of 701 kilowatt-hours would see an increase of about $15 a month.

News broke last week that there is a plan in the works to have residential customers of Minnesota Power shoulder a larger energy bill to "help taconite plants and paper mills survive an onslaught of global competition".

Research done by scientists at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol has for the first time shown the possibility of producing electricity from human urine.

Why do we have Daylight Saving Time?  How does technology play a role in DST?  What two states don't use Daylight Saving Time?  Find out why, and at what cost to us. And yes, it is Daylight Saving Time.  Not Daylight Savings Time.