Fast backward to February 24, 2009, the date [of President] Obama’s first State of the Union Speech. The order of battle was “energy, health care, and education.” That’s right, climate…
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Monthly Issue | March 28, 2012
Unfortunately, our already tenuous energy security is being threatened and diminished by policies emanating from Washington. That need not be the case, and conservatives can meet the challenges we face…
Just two weeks after FirstEnergy Corp. said it would close more than 2 GW of six older coal-fired power plants Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland by September, the Akron, Ohio–based company…
A proposed rule issued in late February by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not change the greenhouse gas (GHG) permitting thresholds for the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and…
A new report released in early March by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) found that loss of reactive power was the most likely outcome from a severe solar…
Ever since Prometheus stole fire from Zeus and gave it to the mortals on Earth, man has had a love-hate relationship with combustion. Fire can be used for light, heat,…
Slagging is the formation of molten, partially fused or re-solidified deposits on furnace walls and other surfaces exposed to radiant heat. Over a period of time, a base deposit of…
Last month, I wrote that President Obama has begun referring to his administration’s green jobs record, although I didn’t expect him to hammer that topic very hard, given his administration’s…
Thermal efficiency improvement for economic gain has been an important power engineering endeavor for more than 250 years. The Newcomen steam engine appeared in 1750 and attained 0.5% efficiency. James…