Electrical grid

still have a bright light when it gets dark or when the power grid goes down. Its technical features reinforce…

The electric company requires a lot of fuel and heavy industrial devices to generate electrical energy. They would require suppliers for coal, natural gas, boilers, and piping to deliver steam to turn generators that create electricity. Transmission wires are required to deliver their product to end users, and transformers are required to…

flammability, and ability to be effortlessly corroded in moist air (Lithium: historical information, 1). Although lithium is only proven successful for one medical condition, it is likely effective for many others in the same way (Lithium, 1). The electrical use of lithium already controls most of our devices and tools, and could, possibly, someday control our everyday devices such as our cars and homes, replacing our rather quickly depleting resources, thus creating a new need for a large…

New Belgium many competitive advantages. The beer company is privately owned and takes care of its employees. The company also enjoys a very close knit, almost family like, customer base. New Belgium uses this to drive sales as their own customers word of mouth is what continues to help it grow. These are great competitive advantages to have. However, there is another that is truly remarkable to see in a company. The most important and the cornerstone of New Belgium is its social responsibility.…

that constantly has emissions. Not to mention the process of gathering the fossil fuels such as coal is disastrous to the environment. According to Caldeira “Recent analyses suggest that wind and solar power, connected by a continental scale electric grid and using natural-gas power plants to provide backup, could reduce…

Going into this year’s internship at PCL I was expecting to have a good and fun internship with having interned the year before. When I found out I was going to be working at Alameda Station Village got me a little more excited, having driven by that job multiple times before and wondered how it was going. Instead of just being able to find out how the job was going I got the privilege of working and helping improve and finish the job. Working with Rahn Coonts, Casey Callanan, Steve Covach, and…

The Fukushima Dai’ichi Nuclear Power was one of 54 nuclear power plants operating throughout Japan in March of 2011. The plant contained 6 separate reactors designed by General Electric and maintained by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. Fukushima Dai’ichi lies about 140 miles northeast of Tokyo, Japan directly on the Pacific Ocean. At 1446 hrs (local JST) on Friday March 11, 2011, a Magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck 43 miles east of Sendai, Japan, (or about 65 miles northeast of Fukushima…

About Ercot Ercot means Electric Reliability Council of Texas. It manages power flow in Texas for about twenty four million customers making it the major carrier of the electric load of the state. It plays a major role in scheduling power load on the grid for about 550 generating units and the transmission lines over 43000 miles. It is a nonprofit organization governed by board of directors with a group of members forming a committee .it is subjected to oversight by Public Utility Commission…

wire is defined as a single, flexible strand or rod of metal which is typically cylindrically-shaped. The core applications of wire, both single- or multi-stranded wire, are to withstand or carry mechanical loads in construction sector, whereas in electrical and electronic field are used to transmit electricity and telecommunications signals. For examples, from view of construction, wires are either braided or fixated together to form a bundle of strands, namely multi-stranded wire or…

Do you think you could live in a world without your phone or computer? What about a world without electrical power at all? Well if an Electromagnetic Pulse, also known as an EMP were to occur, it would change the technology world forever. Such threats are often dismissed as unlikely or a relic from the Cold War. They are not. Solar storms are not infrequent, making it only a matter of time until one impacts our critical infrastructure. And unlike natural phenomena, there is no reliable…