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Green Economic Development  &  Higher Education</div> <div> To promote neighborhood, community and open-access radio stations</div> <div> Free Nation wide WiFi - WiMax Wireless service</div> <div> To demystify the art of broadcast electronics</div> <div> GREEN ATOMS FOR PEACE</div> <div> SOLAR, NATURAL GAS, NUCLEAR, WIND, HYDROGEN???</div> <div> <IMG SRC="5445f8c0.jpg" border=0 width="95" height="140" ALT="solarnow" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> ALL OF IT TOGETHER = SMART GRID</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.cngnow.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cngnow.com/"><IMG SRC="77ad63a0.png" border=0 width="726" height="314" ALT="CNG NOW CLICK HERE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <div> <B>Natural Gas Vehicle Legislation On The Move?</B></div> <div> On July 8, 2009, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Sens. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, held a news conference with T. Boone Pickens, chairman of BP Capital Management, to introduce the "New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions (NAT GAS) Act."</div> <div> Driven by America’s need to reduce its dependence on foreign oil and reduce urban pollution, the bill’s objective is to accelerate the production and use of more natural gas-fueled vehicles.</div> <div> Some basic provisions of the bill include:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Extending NGV tax credits to “bi-fuel” natural gas vehicles (50% of the vehicle’s incremental cost), as well as dedicated NGVs (80% of the vehicle’s incremental cost) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Increasing the consumer tax credit to $12,500 for purchasing light-duty NGVs </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Increasing the refueling property tax credit to $100,000 per station </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Allowing state and local government entities to issue tax-exempt bonds to finance NGV projects </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Granting a new tax credit to auto manufacturers for producing dedicated and bi-fuel NGVs domestically </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Providing research and development grants for light- and heavy-duty NGVs and engine development </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Requiring a percentage of new vehicles in service by the federal government fleet to be capable of running on dedicated alternative fuels</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Take Action</B></div> <div> Visit <A HREF="http://www.cngnow.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cngnow.com/">www.CNGNOW.com</A> to urge your senator to support this economic and environmental bill.</div> <bR> <div> - -  <IMG SRC="548c8010.png" border=0 width="200" height="1" ALT="line brake" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   - -   <IMG SRC="548c8010.png" border=0 width="200" height="1" ALT="line brake" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   - -   <IMG SRC="548c8010.png" border=0 width="200" height="1" ALT="line brake" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   - -</div> <bR> <div> <B>What Is The Smart Grid?</B></div> <div> <A HREF="atoms_for_peace.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Atoms For Peace"><B>EBR-1???</B></A></div> <div> THE WORLD'S FIRST NUCLEAR POWER HOUSE</div> <div> ATOMS FOR PEACE</div> <div> Culled from:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.cnet.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cnet.com/">Cnet</A></div> <div> What the smart grid means to you</div> <div> Building the smart grid means adding computer and communications technology to the existing electricity grid. With an overlay of digital technology, the grid promises to operate more efficiently and reliably.</div> <bR> <div> It can also accommodate more solar and wind power, which are inconsistent sources of energy that can become more reliable with better controls.</div> <bR> <div> Much like computers and routers manage the flow of bits on the Internet, smart-grid technologies use information to optimize the flow of electricity.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.atomiccityusa.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.atomiccityusa.com/"><IMG SRC="7a4620e0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="270" ALT="Arco Idaho click here for full story" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="15" VSPACE="0"></A><B>What would a smart grid be able to do that today's not-so-smart grid can't? </B></div> <div> Right now, if there's a breakdown at your local substation, the utility usually finds out when customers call to complain. </div> <bR> <div> Placing a networked sensor inside a transformer or along wires could locate and report a problem, or prevent it from happening in the first place.</div> <bR> <div> Despite living in the age of information, most of us only get a glimpse of our energy consumption when the utility bills come once a month. In people's homes, the smart grid should mean more detailed information through home energy-monitoring tools.</div> <bR> <div> These can be small displays or Web-based programs that give a real-time view of how much energy you're using, which appliances consume the most, and how your home compares to others.</div> <bR> <div> Just surfacing that information will give people ideas on how to shave energy bills by 5 to 15 percent, utility executives say.</div> <bR> <div> What's needed to start is a smart meter with two-way communications or some other kind of gateway.</div> <bR> <div> Once that conduit is put in place, consumers can get more detailed energy data and start taking advantage of efficiency incentives, such as charging your plug-in electric vehicle in the middle of the night to get off-peak rates. </div> <bR> <div> In theory, networked appliances are smarter and more efficient. GE and start-up display-maker Tendril, for example, will test big appliances--refrigerators, washing machines, and the like--that can get information on fluctuating electricity prices to do its job more efficiently. It could be as simple as making ice or running the dishwasher in the middle of the night.</div> <bR> <div> Or, as part of a home-area network, consumers could program lighting and major appliances on a schedule. </div> <bR> <div> The next step toward efficiency is what's called demand response.</div> <div> The goal here is to dial back energy consumption at peak times.</div> <bR> <div> This is very important to utilities because it's costly and polluting to bring on auxiliary power plants to meet, say, a spike in demand from the air conditioning load on a hot summer day.</div> <bR> <div> Consumers and businesses have financial incentives to participate, such as a discounted rate. "Shedding load" could mean turning the gas heat off of the clothes drier for a few minutes or dimming the lights in a supermarket in the middle of the day. </div> <bR> <div> A smarter grid also makes distributed energy, such as home solar systems, more viable and user-friendly. With a smart meter and monitoring software, a homeowner can see how much solar panels are producing and their carbon footprint is being reduced. A utility, too, is keenly interested in how much distributed energy is available so it can calibrate its own daily power generation. </div> <bR> <div> <B>What are some examples? </B></div> <div> Xcel Energy has dubbed Boulder, Colo., "Smart Grid City" and is installing the equipment on power lines and people's homes.</div> <div> Consumers get access to a free Web-based program that gives them a real-time read-out of use, which helps them lower their usage.</div> <div> It also lets them know when they are buying electricity made from clean sources. </div> <bR> <div> When you go deeper into the smart grid, though, you realize it isn't just about a more detailed utility bill. It can also diversify our energy sources, potentially avoiding the need to build new power plants to meet growing demand. </div> <bR> <div> Consider Duke Energy's smart-grid trial in Charlotte, N.C. A substation--the point that distributes electricity from long-haul transmission lines to a neighborhood--is equipped with 213 solar panels and a large battery. About 100 households have smart meters and in-home energy management tools. </div> <bR> <div> When the sun is shining, the 50-kilowatt solar array makes electricity for the homes in the neighborhood. It also feeds the battery, giving the area a few hours of backup power in the case of an outage and a buffer to draw from during peak times. Consumers can take part in demand-response programs, too, to get a reduction on their electricity bill. </div> <bR> <div> One of the more aggressive utilities in this area, Duke plans to have millions of smart meters installed in homes over the next two years. In addition, it envisions putting sensors along power lines, and networking gear, such as routers, in substations and transformers. In people's homes, individual appliances like water heaters could eventually be networked as well. </div> <bR> <div> The project reflects how the utility industry seems to be following the path of the computing industry, which went from centralized processing with mainframes to a much more distributed and varied architecture. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Who are the companies participating in the smart grid? </B></div> <div> The smart grid is shaping up to be a giant mash-up of the electricity utility, computing, and communications industries. </div> <div> Heavyweight tech companies--Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and Google--all have serious initiatives in this area and loom large among utility executives working on smart-grid programs. </div> <bR> <div> IBM, which sees big dollar signs when it gets involved in large infrastructure projects, is building the technology backbone for many grid modernization programs. That includes installing communications equipment along the grid as well as the software and servers to process the mountains of data that need to be processed. </div> <bR> <div> Cisco, too, is jumping in with both feet with a broad initiative to supply networking equipment for utilities as well as in-home energy management tools. Verizon is looking at this as well, seeing the home network as a point to gather data on home energy use and, potentially, control lighting and appliances for better efficiency. </div> <bR> <div> Microsoft and Google are going after consumers as well while trying to sign on utility partners. </div> <bR> <div> The other key players are the host of start-ups in the area, many of which focus on energy displays. A handful of stronger network-oriented companies are emerging, notably Silver Spring Networks, which offers a wireless card that goes into smart meters. </div> <bR> <div> Finally, there's the electrical infrastructure itself: meters, transformers, transmission equipment, and other hardware that makes the grid tick. In addition to a number of smart meter makers, there are the global infrastructure companies like GE, Siemens, and ABB that are introducing modern control systems to manage the flow of electricity. </div> <bR> <div> OK, so the smart grid is supposed to reduce wasted energy, give consumers better information, and allow the grid to use more solar and wind power.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://news.cnet.com/2702-13576_3-137.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://news.cnet.com/2702-13576_3-137.ht"><IMG SRC="795b88a0.jpg" border=0 width="184" height="138" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <div> <B>What's the hold-up? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Where to start? </B></div> <div> Utilities aren't known as the most fleet-of-foot businesses and the energy industry invests a lower percentage of revenue in technology than most industries. This helps explain why we've been hearing about the grid for 10 years but very few of us actually have it. </div> <bR> <div> But lack of investment is only part of the picture. The whole point of a smarter grid is to use electricity more efficiently, but in many states in the U.S. utilities operate without strong incentives for efficiency, say industry executives. They invest big dollars--think multibillion-dollar power plants--based on their ability to sell more kilowatt-hours, not less.</div> <bR> <div> The more progressive utilities have found ways to justify their investments in the smart grid based on savings from energy reductions, but many utilities aren't nearly as enthusiastic because of how they are regulated. </div> <bR> <div> A key regulatory piece of the smart grid is time-of-day pricing, which is supposed to reflect the fluctuating cost of energy delivery in a day. Some sort of tiered pricing would allow a consumer to take advantage of off-peak rates, but it isn't the norm in many states. </div> <bR> <div> Then there's the lack of standards for a dizzying number of tasks.</div> <div> The National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is responsible for establishing an interoperability framework for smart-grid standards, recently released a road map but everyone agrees there's much work to be done.</div> <div> Culled from:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.cnet.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cnet.com/">Cnet</A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10283295-54.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-102832">CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY >>></A></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> - -  <IMG SRC="548c8010.png" border=0 width="200" height="1" ALT="line brake" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   - -   <IMG SRC="548c8010.png" border=0 width="200" height="1" ALT="line brake" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   - -   <IMG SRC="548c8010.png" border=0 width="200" height="1" ALT="line brake" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   - -</div> <bR> <div> <B>RadioZX's New Home Office</B></div> <div> Idaho National Lab</div> <div> <A HREF="atoms_for_peace.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Atoms For Peace">The Worlds First Nuclear Power House</A> ATOMIC CITY, IDAHO</div> <div> <A HREF="about_us.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us">And The Home Of The Worlds Largest Radio</A></div> <bR> <div> <B>U.S. Government Researches A Muclear Future</B></div> <div> ARCO, Idaho--On July 17, 1955, this tiny town, which might otherwise have forever escaped notoriety of any kind, was put on the map for a very historic reason: It became the first place in the "free world" to be powered by "electrical energy developed from the atom."</div> <bR> <div> The power was generated by an experimental reactor run by the nearby National Reactor Testing Station, and the flipping of the switch seemed to usher in a new era for the United States and the world: the nuclear era. </div> <bR> <div> Over time, the U.S. and other countries grew more and more attracted to the idea of nuclear power as a major alternative to fossil fuel-based power.</div> <div> But by the 1980s and early 1990s, the country had lost its appetite for the fuel source.</div> <bR> <div> It was seen as dangerous, too closely related to nuclear weapons, and too productive of nuclear waste, and gradually, the number of working nuclear power plants got smaller and smaller. In many places, in fact, the mere mention of nuclear power will draw a dirty stare.</div> <bR> <div> But in Arco, there is still a civic pride associated with the events of 1955, and today, there is a growing national enthusiasm for the idea that back then, in the heart of the Cold War, seemed so novel: turning to nuclear power as a major source of energy.</div> <bR> <div> Culled from:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.cnet.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cnet.com/">Cnet</A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10282741-52.html?tag=smallCarouselArea.0" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-102827">CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY >>></A></div> <div> OR</div> <div> SEE 2009 PHOTOS BY RADIOZX of <A HREF="atoms_for_peace.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Atoms For Peace">Idaho National Lab's "The Worlds First Nuclear Power Plant ATOMIC CITY" >>></A></div> <div> OR</div> <div> About Us RadioZX's Home Office <A HREF="about_us.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us">Atomic City USA >>></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>