Word: grid
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Yeah, that answer surprised us too. The lecture hall was packed almost to capacity with a handful of undergraduates and an overwhelming number of crossword enthusiasts from the Boston area, easily identified by graying hair, thick glasses, and/or crossword paraphernalia. One woman wore a crossword grid scarf. Another carried a crossword grid tote bag. Flyby began to feel a little boxed in by all the black-and-white squares...
...sweep of the Waxman-Markey bill, known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act, is massive. It includes provisions to require that a quarter of U.S. power production be based on renewable energy by the year 2025; investments to facilitate mounting those new energy sources onto the grid; incentives for green buildings, appliances and vehicles; and an ambitious schedule to reduce greenhouse gases 20% below 2005 levels by the year 2020. The goals are even more ambitious than those in Obama's plan, which calls for only a 14% reduction in the same period - and that may well...
...general clunkiness caused by paperwork alone could save an estimated $300 billion each year, according to the national coordinator for health information technology under former President George W. Bush. The consensus, of course, is that we must go paperless: link hospitals, doctors' offices and clinics via an interactive digital grid that allows patient histories, test results and other data to be called up at a keystroke and transmitted anywhere. Hospitals have been slowly converting to electronic health records (EHR) for several years, but with health-care reform, at last, high on Washington's to-do list, President Barack Obama...
...Katherine Potter, a spokeswoman for Ausra, the company proposing the solar thermal plant, insists that large-scale solar is needed, and soon. "There is certainly a good place for distributed generation, but to ensure the reliability of the grid, you do need large-scale power generation," she says, explaining that solar thermal is the most efficient renewable energy source available in terms of the amount of land used...
...There is a much greater consciousness about it now. [Energy tycoon] Boone Pickens says he is doing wind power not because of global warming but because of our reliance on foreign energy, but it's still part of that broad mosaic. Al Gore wants to take our electric power grid completely off carbon. There is going to be a new climate change treaty by the end of the year, and hopefully we'll be a signatory to it. It's back on the radar screen politically, and a lot of people are paying attention to it. You look...