By Steven F. Greenwald and Jeffrey P. Gray David Crane, the CEO of NRG Energy, was recently quoted in a widely disseminated publication as saying: “It is a moral imperative…
Power
Monthly Issue | July 15, 2008
The recent upsurge in baby boomer retirements is giving electric utility industry leaders high blood pressure. The number of power industry workers who were born between 1946 and 1964 and…
I have a confession to make. When I heard that Big Brown had been selected as the PRB Coal Users' Group (PRBCUG) 2008 Plant of the Year, my first thoughts were of…
A conventional coal plant’s CO2 emissions can be reduced either after combustion (see Part I of this article in POWER, June 2008) or before. In the latter case, typified by…
It is rare indeed to witness, at an otherwise staid industry forum, the public rebuke of the country’s most prominent supplier to the electric power industry. But at the Keynote…
“Once it’s enacted, the impact of climate change legislation on the electric power industry will be ten times bigger than that of the Clean Air Act,” said Dan Adamson, an…
A week before the Preakness and two weeks after the Kentucky Derby, it was an atomic horse race in Baltimore. Reactor vendors trotted out their technologies at the ELECTRIC POWER…
The 2008 Powder River Basin Coal Users’ Group (PRBCUG) set new records for attendance again this year with more than 400 registered members for the three-and-a-half-day event, 268 of whom…
No doubt some power plant engineers feel that tackling environmental problems is a lot like dealing with the Hydra, the ancient mythological serpent monster with multiple heads. When an attacker…
The human nervous system is one of the most complex systems in the human body. Though the nerves and brain are small in comparison with the mass of bones and…