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Power Grid

A Feasible Step Toward Resilience

Nancy Biberman | Posted 05.01.2013 | New York
Nancy Biberman

Decentralized power generation is a pragmatic solution to a variety of problems that plague property owners and residents throughout New York, and other cities.

WATCH: The Power Grid Explained

Posted 02.08.2013 | Green

A recent DNews video asks, "Do you know how your power gets to you?" In the wake of this year's Super Bowl blackout, host Trace Dominguez explains the...

Gerry Smith

John Kerry: Foreign Hackers Are '21st Century Nuclear Weapons'

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 01.24.2013 | Technology

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on Thursday likened the threat posed by foreign hackers to “modern-day, 21st century nuclear weapons" and pledged to use d...

China's Strategic Next Step: Buying Critical US Taxpayer Funded Technology

Mark Pfeifle | Posted 03.19.2013 | Politics
Mark Pfeifle

Unless the Obama administration intervenes, the U.S. may soon have to depend on one of China's wealthiest and most politically-connected Communist party leaders for access to taxpayer-funded technology that will power the next generation of satellites and military vehicles.

Sandy: An Eye-Opener for the Power Grid

Daniel McGahn | Posted 01.26.2013 | Technology
Daniel McGahn

The absolute paralysis that our economy and our country experiences during these prolonged and widespread outages exposes an extreme vulnerability.

Lowering Taxes For The Wealthy: A Failed Experiment

New York Times | Posted 11.22.2012 | Politics

In upper-middle-class suburbs on the East Coast, the newest must-have isn’t a $7,500 Sub-Zero refrigerator. It’s a standby generator that automati...

Matt Sledge

Hurricane Sandy Deals Infrastructure A Blow, Highlights Need For Investment

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 10.31.2012 | Business

NEW YORK -- A day after Hurricane Sandy swept across the nation's most densely populated communities along the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, utilities, ...

Gerry Smith

Congress' Cyber Security #FAIL

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 10.02.2012 | Technology

Despite warnings that hackers could shut down critical infrastructure with the click of a mouse, the Senate voted down landmark legislation on Thursda...

Campaign Energy Debate Missing the Biggest Opportunity

John Farrell | Posted 06.04.2012 | Green
John Farrell

Within the next decade, 100 million Americans in the nation's largest cities will be able to get cheaper electricity from their own rooftop -- without subsidies -- than from their electric utility, according to a new report.

WATCH: Huge Solar Storm Could Affect Astronauts, Satellites

AP/The Huffington Post | By SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 03.24.2012 | Science

WASHINGTON -- The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving er...

Microgrids Grow Energy Independence

Robert Schwab | Posted 02.28.2012 | Denver
Robert Schwab

Being energy independent by becoming your own distributor of electricity is an idea spreading among college campus administrators and the military.

Tom Zeller Jr.

Jeremy Rifkin Predicts An Energy Revolution

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 11.28.2011 | Green

On Monday, we posed a few questions to Jeremy Rifkin, the American economist and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, whose new book, "The ...

Conversations You Won't Overhear

Terry Tamminen | Posted 11.14.2011 | Green
Terry Tamminen

As summer gives way to our back-to-work lives, busy execs will likely compare notes at Chamber of Commerce luncheons about the economy and job creation. We can all imagine those conversations, but here are a few you won't be likely to overhear.

Southwest Power Outage A Reminder Of Power Grid Vulnerabilities

AP | MICHAEL R. BLOOD and ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 11.09.2011 | Los Angeles

SAN DIEGO — A blackout that swept across parts of the Southwest and Mexico apparently began with a single utility worker and a minor repair job....

Blistering Heat Wave Stressing Nation's Power Grid

AP | By JONATHAN FAHEY | Posted 09.19.2011 | Green

NEW YORK -- A lengthy, blistering heat wave that is blanketing the eastern half of the United States is putting significant stress on the nation's pow...

Gerry Smith

Fixing The Internet May Mean Building A New One

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 09.14.2011 | Technology

As hackers expose widespread cybersecurity lapses and heighten fears about defending critical infrastructure from attack, one proposed solution has st...

LISTEN: More Solar Storms Coming?

Posted 08.31.2011 | Denver

It’s getting increasingly stormy on the sun and that’s likely to cause problems on earth. A center in Boulder tracks solar activity 24/7 and sound...

Northwest Power Surplus May Halt Wind Energy

AP | By TIM FOUGHT | Posted 07.14.2011 | Green

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The manager of most of the electricity in the Pacific Northwest is running such a surplus of power from hydroelectric dams that it p...

The Secret Sauce of Economic Growth

Michael Moynihan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Michael Moynihan

Right now the biggest clusters of clean energy activity are not in the United States. They are in Germany, Japan and China. But it is not too late for us to get a healthy share of the pie.

How Crowdsourcing Can Help Clean Energy

Beth Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Beth Comstock

Ideas spring from the gaps between the technology of today and the needs of tomorrow. In the global energy economy, we face a chasm between nascent id...

The Solar 'Katrina' Storm That Could Take Our Power Grid Out For Years

Lawrence E. Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Lawrence E. Joseph

John Kappenman is determined to save civilization from the mother of all blackouts. If he fails, we may well suffer on a scale that makes even World Wars seem trivial in comparison.

Styleite's Power Grid Ranks Top Designers, Models, Fashion Writers And More

Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

Styleite.com launched earlier this morning and with it the Power Grid, a feature that's made its partner site Mediaite.com popular. Styleite has ranke...

Passing Into the Energy Cloud

Lawrence E. Joseph | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Lawrence E. Joseph

Our space neighborhood is changing, and not for the better. We need to take precautions to defend our home planet, our way of life, starting right now.

2012, Seriously

Lawrence E. Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Lawrence E. Joseph

As author of "Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization's End" (Broadway/Random House, 2007) I am frequently asked what I thought of "2012," the Columbia Pictures film directed by Roland Emmerich.

The Need for Enemies

Lawrence E. Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Lawrence E. Joseph

What is it about our need for enemies? Has the American consciousness been shaped, even warped, by decades of fighting off the Nazis, the Communists, and now, Muslim extremists?