Some of their suggestions include new building codes, moving power lines below ground, wetland restoration, flood barriers, sea gates and the possible relocation of some coastal communities.
Hays said "if they had retrofitted Charity Hospital, there would have been no need to pay for moving power lines.
He said that Enron's descriptions of questionable trading strategies contained only one modest disclosure: a method Enron traders used that reportedly created the illusion of congestion on power lines by moving power back and forth across state lines.
The transmission network, the part of the grid that moves power across state lines and has been implicated before in outages like the blackout of 2003, appears not to have been seriously tested by the storm because of its higher design standards.
Matt Reynolds, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke, who collaborates with Dr. Patel, says it has long been known that people function as antennas as they move near power lines — for example, those within the walls of a home.
Efficient high voltage lines will move power from remote, resource-rich areas to places where power is consumed.
Move away from power lines, buildings, cars and other hazards.
This includes investing in new power plants in safe areas (why was a Con Edison plant near a hurricane zone?), figuring out how to move as many power lines as we can underground, and developing a gasoline back-up strategy (New York City reserves?) so we do not have a crippling shortage in future emergencies.
"I can't truly see how commercially viable that idea is, because you would have to literally have somebody walking along to keep it in the line of sight, watching it at all times," he said, adding that Domino's would need to avoid "random hazards [such as] power lines, moving vehicles, children in the backyard playing".
One construction worker was killed and two were injured yesterday after a crane cable they were moving struck a power line in Queens, the police said.
Flames were moving rapidly uphill and near power lines.
