Tapping Mauna Kea bi2731073 ARE UPPER-ELEVATION WELLS COST-EFFICIENT? BY ERIN MILLER WEST HAWAII TODAY emiller@westhawaiitoday.com In the early 1980s, Jerry Kremkow took a big gamble -- risking everything he had on belief that he would find good water far below Mauna Kea ranch land. Kremkow won that bet, drilling down 4,795 feet before striking water. The well, and a backup also drilled on the property, now serve the ..

Two Mauna Kea telescopes face funding cuts bi2731073 As governments look for ways to reduce spending, two observatories on Mauna Kea face possible budget cuts from two countries that may withdraw financial support altogether

Mauna Kea Technologies Third Quarter Sales: +62% bi2731073 Mauna Kea Technologies (NYSE Euronext: MKEA) (Paris:MKEA), leader the endomicroscopy market, announced today sales results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2011

Scientists find monster black holes, biggest yet Mauna Kea telescopes bi2731073 Scientists have found the biggest black holes known to exist ? each one 10 billion times the size of our sun. A team led by an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley discovered the two gigantic black holes clusters of galaxies 300 million light years away

More holiday happenings, fixings around W. Hawaii bi2731073 For those who prefer to be served rather than stuck the kitchen, several local s are offering various fixings and other special events to make the upcoming holidays special. Here's just a sampling. Many of these places require reservations. Prices do not include tax and gratuity. Outrigger Keauhou Beach (324-2512) c A holiday season prime rib seafood buffet, from 5:30 to 9 p.m ..

Sabre Hospitality "Smart" takes top honors bi2731073 Southlake, Texas, Dec. 6, 2011-- Sabre Hospitality Solutions, the industry's leading global hospitality technology company, was awarded "Best Hotel & Lodging Website" along 21 additional awards for outstanding achievement web development as part of year's Website Marketing Association's WebAward competition. The team has been further recognized 18 web awards from the W3 Awards ..

Hawaii's Hilo gets day the sun bi2731073 "Hilo - what is" probably isn't a tourism slogan that would get a thumbs-up from the Big Island city's Chamber of Commerce

Supercooled cosmic camera probing the mysteries of star formation bi2731073 The heart of the SCUBA-2 astronomy camera, unveiled Tuesday at the top of Mauna Kea summit Hawaii, cooled to just one-tenth of one degree above absolute zero

Core of new deep space camera ?the coldest cubic metre the universe? bi2731073 The heart of the SCUBA-2 astronomy camera unveiled Tuesday at the top of Mauna Kea summit Hawaii cooled to just one-tenth of one degree above absolute zero. Scientists from the University of British Columbia designed and constructed the electronics that take data from a camera that can discern objects deep space by detecting long wavelengths of light that are invisible to humans and ..

SCUBA-2 helps astronomers explore depths of space bi2731073 BY ERIN MILLER | WEST HAWAII TODAY emiller@westhawaiitoday.com A new camera a decade the making creating clearer images faster for astronomers using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea. The camera, SCUBA-2, brings cutting edge technology to the telescope, astronomer Holly Thomas said

World's largest submillimeter camera set to probe outer space bi2731073 Although might sound like an oxymoron, the newly unveiled SCUBA-2 camera housed at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the world?s largest submillimeter camera. Submillimeter refers not to the physical size of the new camera itself, but to the submillimeter waveband between the far-infrared and microwave wavebands that the telescope observes. Being far more ..

India could contribute $150M to Hawaii telescope bi2731073 A giant telescope planned for the summit of Mauna Kea likely get a $150 million infusion cash and high-tech equipment..

The Darkness bi2731073 Black holes are largest ever measured BY ERIN MILLER | WEST HAWAII TODAY Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea have found what they say are the two largest black holes ever measured Earth's "cosmological neighborhood." The discovery shows scientists where black holes have been hiding, so to speak, more recent history, according to a Gemini announcement about the finding ..

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