Note 10 - Business Segment Information (Detail) (USD $)	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2012	Jun. 30, 2011
Number of Operating Segments	2
Entity Wide Revenue, Major Customer, Number	5	3
Entity-Wide Revenue, Major Customer, Percentage	10.00%	10.00%
Power And Energy Group [Member]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Gross, Period Increase (Decrease) (in Dollars)	(611,000)	316,000

Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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