Coal-fired Power Plants And the Metaphors We Use To Describe Them
Maybe I’m the only member of an aging population who grimaces when young people today show that they don’t really understand the metaphors that had meaning in the 20th Century. Here are two:
An “elephant in the room” and an “800-pound gorilla.” The former means an obvious but awkward truth that the people present would rather ignore than address. The latter simply means a powerful force; it’s the subject of the riddle: “Where does an 800-pound gorilla sleep?” Punch line: “Anywhere it wants.”
Here’s an important article about super-polluting coal-fired power plants that was sent to me with the (incorrect) subject line: “This power plant is the elephant in the room.”
I just got back from a great day at the University of California at Santa Barbara, host of the 14th annual 
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When winter comes around, most households and offices need to use more energy to stay warm.
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The future smart city has many opportunities for innovative power solutions, whereby energy fields that are all around us could be used to collect this energy and harness its power. These include light, heat and sound. This infographic takes a look at future applications that could be facilitated by energy harvesting as the technology develops. 
When I first saw the little relatively isolated 110 house neighborhood where I currently live I thought it would be interesting to set up a microgrid so the neighborhood could be independent of the grid when required. I am sure most of the neighbors here would not go for it and neither would the local utility. However it is nice when I see an article where a 
Today is the five year anniversary of the first experiments performed at the 
