Re "Powering a Hot City" (editorial, July 9): The only realistic short-term solution to assure a reliable power supply for New York City for the next several summers is a crash program to retrofit existing buildings so that they will be more energy efficient.
There are a series of back-up generators which gradually re-power the system.
Fabric, theoretically, could re-power an enervated cellphone every time you are in a lighted room.
The all-party narrative of re-powering the UK with local gas is profoundly disempowering for those who have to deal with it up close.
It has taken elected officials, though, to put a fire under the feet of KeySpan's chairman and chief executive, Robert B. Catell, to re-power the ancient KeySpan power plants.
With new Environmental Protection Agency rules scheduled to take effect limiting power plants' emissions of conventional pollutants like nitrogen oxides, mercury and particulates, he said, many older coal plants are candidates for re-powering.
Floating windfarms could play a key role in re-powering Japan, whose love affair with nuclear power ended after the Fukushima disaster, and whose seabed plunges steeply offshore, leaving little space for fixed turbines.
Some old wind farms have recently been re-powered to achieve dramatically improved output from higher hub heights, more efficient structural design, improved layout and other turbine refinements.
Once a breaker trips, the operator manually investigates the source of the fault prior to attempting to re-power any interrupted loads.
With the pressure on to improve processes, Petar Ostojic discusses how pump manufacturers can help mining companies re-power their reclaim water systems with custom engineering solutions, improving pump capacity and reducing energy consumption.
But this strategic challenge is the lynchpin of a bold new strategy needed to re-power America.
