May 28, 2008
Written by: Stephen Gold
Hurricane season in the Atlantic starts this coming Sunday -- a span of year that often proves as busy for electric utilities (and electrical equipment) as it does for weathermen. Government forecasters are predicting a more active-than-usual hurricane season, with...
May 21, 2008
Written by: Stephen Gold
"Depending on people to make a hard choice every day -- don't turn on the lights so much -- is a less-promising solution than getting people to make a hard choice once, [for example, paying more for a high-efficiency bulb]...
May 14, 2008
Written by: Stephen Gold
At some point in his career Isaac Newton must have worked in politics. Surely that's how he derived his Third Law of Motion, "To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." In Washington it works this way: As soon as...
May 7, 2008
Written by: Stephen Gold
Last week in honor of "National Electrical Safety Month" I posted an article on arc-fault circuit interrupters (AFCIs) and the political challenges these electrical safety devices are facing from homebuilders in midwestern states. The good news is that AFCIs are just one...
May 7, 2008
Written by: Stephen Gold
Time magazine's "World's Most Influential People" edition is out on the newsstands now. While I recognize that these lists are incredibly arbitrary, built thoroughly on the foundation of whatever biases the publisher has, like everyone else I'm compelled to read them....
May 2, 2008
Written by: Clark Silcox
Three years ago, the Bush Administration introduced a new intellectual property rights initiative called Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy (STOP) and named a Coordinator for the program reporting the Secretary of Commerce. Both the private and public sector generally agree that the...
