Tag: electricity
Behind the hum of electrical power
Think about the most complicated machine you’ve dealt with in the past year. Was it a beeping monitor tethered to a high-tech device in an…
Hot Diggity Dam
As the long season of darkness sweeps over the country, it’s a natural time to think about lighting – and how dependent we are on…
Stepping Up to a Bright Idea
At first I wasn’t sure I was reading the CNN report correctly. The story hinged on special pavement that uses the impact of human feet…
Stepping Back From Dam Power
Just over a century ago, when William Howard Taft was president and I was a young woman, an entrepreneur named Thomas Aldwell started building a…
Let the Buyer Beware
Those of us who have been around the block a few times will remember the last time gasoline hit $4 per gallon a new industry…