Tag: Electricity
Are public objections to wind farms overblown?
Jeremy Firestone, University of Delaware; Ben Hoen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Joseph Rand, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
While most surveys suggest that the public...
Nikola Tesla: The extraordinary life of a modern Prometheus
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
Match the following figures – Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Nobel and Nikola Tesla – with these biographical facts:
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Subsidizing coal and nuclear power could drive customers off the grid
Joshua M. Pearce, Michigan Technological University
Within the next month, energy watchers expect the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to act on an order from Energy...
Why solar ‘microgrids’ are not a cure-all for Puerto Rico’s power...
Peter Fox-Penner, Boston University
In addition to its many other devastating human consequences, Hurricane Maria left the island of Puerto Rico with its power grid...
Trump’s policies will harm coal-dependent communities instead of helping them
Mark Partridge, The Ohio State University and Michael Betz, The Ohio State University
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is moving to repeal the Clean Power Plan...
Why Rick Perry’s proposed subsidies for coal fail Economics 101
Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley and Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley
In a controversial proposal, Energy Secretary Rick Perry has asked federal regulators...
The old, dirty, creaky US electric grid would cost $5 trillion...
The electric grid is an amazing integrated system of machines spanning an entire continent. The National Academy of Engineering has called it one of...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
