Shankar sees it, if you can pay your bills or find the love of your life online, you should at least be able to use the Internet to turn on your air conditioner. The system monitors energy use every five seconds and allows users to go online or on their cell phones to monitor and adjust their key energy hog systems from air conditioners to pool pumps to refrigerators. Shankar, the president of American Grid inc., was in Palm Desert earlier this week conducting the initial home surveys for...

The chairman of a Canada-based committee working to attract new slaughter capacity in the province of Saskatchewan said upping hog slaughter capacity is crucial in quelling local hog producers concerns over U. packing plants, averse to paying additional costs associated with multiple labels, will reject their animals, Canadian Meat Business magazine reported. And the long-term solution, he said, will be increased Canadian slaughter capacity, though that wouldn't happen before September...

Homeland Security, which wants to build the 520,000-square-foot laboratory, is beginning detailed environmental impact assessments on those five sites. The project will include a high-security biosafety level 4 laboratory, where scientists will work in spacesuits to protect themselves from potentially deadly pathogens. The agency says those studies will take about a year and that the decision on where to build the lab will be made in late 2008. Scientists will be charged with understanding...

With more than two billion airline passengers travelling each year, there is a high risk of a major epidemic of diseases such as SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), AIDS or Ebola fever. Since 1967, at least 39 new diseases have been identified and in the last five years WHO has identified more than 1,100 epidemics including bird flu, cholera and polio. By doing so, they are incubating diseases while coming into contact with other passengers on an aeroplane and with hundreds of others...

Tyson Foods reduces beef processing level By Bloomberg, AP and Staff Reports 9/8/2007 Tyson Foods inc., the nation's largest meat processor, said Friday it will cut back beef production this weekend and early next week because of "unfavorable market conditions. Tyson Foods reduces beef processing level By Bloomberg, AP and Staff Reports 9/8/2007 Tyson Foods inc., the nation's largest meat processor, said Friday it will cut back beef production this weekend and early next week because of...