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...grid to New England, U.S. wires are capable of transmitting only 1,500 MW. "There's a tremendous need for the U.S. to spend more money on its part of the power grid if we want this market to work," says Thierry Candal, vice president for production at Hydro Quebec...
When the lights went out in California last month, cash registers rang up north. In one critical 24-hour period on Jan. 18, British Columbia Hydro supplied more than one-third of the power desperate Californians needed to stave off a statewide blackout. The rescue didn't come cheap: the utility may have earned $3 million from the deal. "It's been a windfall," admits B.C. Hydro spokesman Wayne Cousins...
...past seven months, B.C. Hydro has earned more than $700 million by selling power to energy-starved U.S. buyers--more than twice the $290 million earned from U.S. sales in the previous fiscal year. But this bounty hasn't come worry free. The intricate Canada-U.S. grid that links energy producers and consumers--and that makes it so profitable for B.C. Hydro to transmit power south--is in growing disarray. The consequences could be even higher prices and more uncertain supplies for Canadians as well as Americans. "We need a stable energy system on the continent," says Ray Hart...
...images the Surveyor orbiter has beamed home in the nearly three years it has been circling Mars are full of this kind of expected hydro-scarring. But a handful of the pictures took scientists by surprise. In general, the older a Martian formation is, the more likely it is to have been distorted over the eons--smoothed by the planet's periodic windstorms or gouged by the occasional incoming meteor. A few of the newly discovered water channels, however, look as fresh as the day they were formed, leading astonished researchers to conclude that that day may have been remarkably...
...needs that kind of boring stuff in the new economy? Since then, he has been reconfiguring the company through a flurry of mergers and asset sales, shifting the product flow from water pipes to fat data pipes. After this deal goes through, he will probably spin off the remaining hydro assets to concentrate on whether or not he should green-light Erin Brockovich Deux or make Enrique Iglesias available in MPtrois format...