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Legal & Regulatory
Talking Smart Grid Talk
What is the smart grid all about? A new book—a dictionary—attempts to define and demystify the jargon and bafflegab surrounding the buzzing smart grid. It’s a somewhat flawed but worthwhile first attempt at unraveling the often bizarre and sometimes baloney-filled smart grid nomenclature.
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Legal & Regulatory
Pushmepullyou: Disputes and Discussions on Grid Politics
While industry interests were trying to get on board the smart grid gravy train last fall in Washington, D.C., in rural West Virginia folks were dealing with the force of a political locomotive pushing a high-voltage interstate grid, with property owners opposed and labor in favor.
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HR
Today, Time Management Knows No Boundaries
It’s no longer a 9-to-5 world. Management gurus Peter Stark and Jane Flaherty offer advice on how to manage time in today’s multi-tasking environment.
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Legal & Regulatory
The Natural Gas Glut and the Doctrine According to Hefner
Natural gas is back, says gas guru Bobby Hefner, and in a big way. New technologies, new discoveries, low prices, and new optimism characterize a natural gas industry that just three years ago was bemoaning its future and looking to foreign LNG imports as the industry’s salvation. Today, the gloom is gone, and the gas folks are clicking their gaseous heels in glee.
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Legal & Regulatory
NRC Withholds “Waste Confidence” Finding, Citing Yucca Decision
In a series of ironies, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has voted to reject an early finding that the U.S. can adequately manage nuclear reactor spent fuel, in the wake of the Obama administration’s decision to pull the radioactive plug on Nevada’s Yucca Mountain. The vote by the majority Republicans on the commission effectively puts a temporary ban on new nuclear reactor construction in the U.S.
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Commentary
The Beat the Copenhagen Clock Game
U.S. Democrats in the White House and Congress are in an unseemly race to get something, anything, enacted into law before the December climate gab fest in Copenhagen. But it’s a fools’ game and unlikely to succeed.
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Commentary
Is Learning to Regulate Like Learning to Cook?
What’s to learn about regulation from Julia Child and Michael Pollan, gurus of the food world? Plenty, says Scott Hempling of the National Regulatory Research Institute.
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Commentary
Belt Out Your Best and Overcome Your Doubts
Don’t let your fears of inadequacy limit your ability to succeed in your life and career.
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News
Map of Nuclear Power Plants in North America
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Environmental
New Pressurized CCS System Could Cut Energy Penalty
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) looking into new power generation cycles have designed an innovative oxyfuel system that uses a pressurized coal combustor to capture and concentrate carbon dioxide emissions for direct injection into deep geological formations.