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In the early 1990s, I was part of a team of about 30 engineers working in Washington, D.C., on its power loop—a 500-kilovolt transmission line looping around our nation’s capital through Virginia and Maryland. We...
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Paris shines in the popular imagination as the City of Light. But its allure also flickers deep underground. There are the sewers made immortal by Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and by Éléonore, an 8-foot Nile crocodile caught living there in...
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the U.S. Congress were looking for ways to fight the Great Depression, they drafted the Rural Electrification Act. Passed in 1936, the bill brought electricity to rural America and helped spark an economic recovery....
Aerial view of the Diablo Dam in Washington. It’s one of the three facilities located on the Skagit River listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Courtesy of HDRWe love epic engineering sagas. TV shows like Modern Marvels, Impossible...
When energy prices rise, many assume it is a boom time for global operators. They certainly make the most of a high-demand market, but they aren’t getting it their own way. Pressure by governments and the public alike to reduce...