Posts from August 2009
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August 27, 2009
For many who have been in the energy practice since the PURPA days it seems like history is repeating itself. The Public Utilities Policy Act of 1978 had as its laudable goal the encouragement of renewable energy and…
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August 24, 2009
This month I rediscovered the interrobang (‽), first introduced in 1962. Intended to be used when a sentence is both a question and an excited exclamation, it never caught on. Writers and editors have been satisfied with ?…
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August 17, 2009
The Department of Energy is ready to fund a new wind turbine test site with a $45 million grant, and Michigan is in the hunt. Officially called “Recovery Act: Large Wind Turbine Drivetrain Testing Facility” the competition is…
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August 11, 2009
Notwithstanding the recent dramatic moves toward electric and electric hybrid automobiles, for the foreseeable future there will continue to be a high demand for liquid transportation fuels for automobiles, planes, boats, and trains. Moreover, notwithstanding the efforts going…
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August 9, 2009
There is a disconnect in the public discourse on electric generation in Michigan. It revolves around the confusion caused by such terms as “capacity”, “availability”, “energy”, “reliability”, “intermittent”, “firm”, “spot market”, “backup”, “baseload”, “efficiency” and other energy jargon. …
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August 7, 2009
For a long time, the energy industry has recognized the value of Michigan’s underground storage capacity, which constitutes ten percent of the nation’s natural gas storage capacity. Now, with rumblings about cap and trade and the need for…
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