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The purpose of this website is to introduce operators, the media and the public to the BDoY Competition, to explain the various processes through which drivers reach the National Final, and to describe events during the weekend in Blackpool.
The UK Bus Driver of the Year for 2015 is William Bradford, from Stagecoach London.
The National Final of the UK Bus Driver of the Year Competition took place in Blackpool on Sunday (6 September) and among 117 entries from operators large and small the overall winner was William Bradford from Stagecoach London, who was taking part in BDoY for the first time. William, 22 and from Bromley Garage, received £1,000 from the Road Operators' Safety Council, who generously added £600 to this sum to mark sixty years of ROSCO in 2015. He also received £500 from Unite the Union and was awarded the John Boxall Medallion as national champion (John founded Bus Driver of the Year in Coventry in 1967). Two further £500 awards go to William as highest-placed finalist from the Stagecoach Group and from a company operating for Transport for London. As best competitor from a bus garage in England, he received a further £50 accompanied by the Giles Fearnley Trophy.
Runner-up was Tomasz Jagiello from McGill's Buses. He received £750 with the Compak Ramps trophy and £250 from the Rail Maritime & Transport Workers' Union. Tomasz was additionally highest-placed finalist from an independent operator, winning £500 and the Wrightbus Trophy, and best competitor from a depot in Scotland, winning the Joe Mackie Shield and a £50 award. He also scored the lowest number of penalty points in the Highway Code Test, winning £100 and the Wrightbus Shield.
In third place was Leon Wells from Ipswich Buses - who was UK Bus Driver of the Year in 2008 - winning the Volvo Bus & Coach Cup plus £500 and the Best Impressions Trophy with £250 and a further £500 for being highest-placed finalist from an ALBUM member company.
Luke Towey from First South Yorkshire, winning £500 and the FirstGroup Trophy as best-placed finalist from a First company, the "Route One" Trophy and £250 plus the Voyager Alliance Cup and a further £250 finished in overall fourth place.
David Cameron-Young of the Oxford Bus Company was fifth, picking-up the Vix Technology Trophy and £150 plus the McKenna Shield with £100 and a further £500 with the Go-Ahead Trophy as best-placed finalist from that group.
Our congratulations go not only to the 5 competitors mentioned here, but to all the other 112 remaining National Finalists who have all done both themselves and their companies proud.
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"Pulau Ubin, Singapore" Top 5 Page for this destination Pulau Ubin by SWFC_Fan
Pulau Ubin Travel Guide: 231 reviews and 575 photos
The small island of Pulau Ubin, with a population of around 100 inhabitants, lies off the north coast of Singapore.
Pulau Ubin lies in the Johor Strait between Singapore and Malaysia.
How to get there?
To get to Pulau Ubin from Singapore, you will need to take a bumboat from Changi Point ferry terminal. The bumboats leave frequently throughout the day, leaving once there are 12 passengers waiting. In practice, you could be waiting from 5 minutes to 30 minutes for the required number of passengers to turn up - I waited about 20 minutes.
The crossing takes only 10 minutes and costs just S$2 (0.75 GBP) each way. Simply pay the driver once on board.
To get from the centre of Singapore to Changi Point ferry terminal (at Changi Village), I opted to take a taxi. The journey took about 25 minutes and cost S$14.80. Alternatively, it is possible to catch bus #2 to Changi Village, but I'm not sure where in Singapore you would need to catch it. It is not possible (as at December 2005) to get all the way to Changi Village by the MRT.
Upon arriving at the jetty on Pulau Ubin, I made straight for the information kiosk (right next to the jetty), to pick up an invaluable free map of the island.
I then headed first in a westerly direction, along Jalan Jetulang, as far as Merbah Hut. This involved passing through the main village of the island with its handful of simple restaurants and bicycle hire shops. I opted to do without a bicycle and discover the island on foot instead (the vast majority of visitors opted to hire a bicycle for the day for just a few Singaporean Dollars).
I noticed a large spider in a web between the trees at the side of the road. This was the first large spider I'd seen on my trip, so I got a closer look and tried to get a good shot of it with the camera. I then noticed an even bigger spider a few yards away, and then another, and another, and another.....I soon realised that there were hundreds and thousands of huge spiders in the vast number of cobwebs between the trees. I made a very conscious decision at this point that I would stick to the main road and not venture off down any dirt tracks!
At Merbah Hut, I turned back and retraced my steps back along the palm tree lined road before taking the turn off along Jalan Batu Ubin. The map suggested that if I followed Jalan Noordin, I would arrive a few kilometres later at Noordin Beach on the north coast of the island. This I did, and arrived at the hugely disappointing beach some time later.
The map indicated another beach, Mamam Beach, further along the coast. So, I followed the various roads (Jalan Ubin, Jalan Sam Heng and Jalan Mamam) and some time (and effort!) later I arrived at the equally disappointing Mamam Beach. The beach was litter strewn, the water was murky and polluted and there were hundreds of large hornets buzzing around.
I headed back inland as far as Murai Hut and turned off along Jalan Durian, a road that contains a number of traditional houses. Some of these wooden huts look as though they've been long deserted, but for the fact that washing hangs out front. Untended gardens and rotting facades are characteristic of many homes on the island. After passing one home, with a cat wandering along the road outside, I heard a rustling sound in the undergrowth. I nervously moved closer to see what it was, and saw a giant monitor lizard strutting slowly through the plants.
Somewhere along my journey, I stopped at a house that had a sign out front advertising "Cold drinks for sale" and paid S$1 for a much-needed can of ice tea from an ice bucket.
Somewhere else, I passed a snake slithering along the top of a fence. It was the only snake that I saw during the day, despite the guidebook saying that I might be "lucky" and encounter an Oriental Whip Snake (yeah, that would have been lucky!). A large spider fell from a tree and landed (dead) on the road in front of me somewhere near Mamam Beach.
After enough close encounters with wildlife species that I don't particularly like (with the exception of lizards, which I do), I made my way back through the interior of the island to the relative civilisation of the main village and caught a bumboat back to "the Real World" of Singapore!
All in all, a very enjoyable day. At times, I felt like I was in the middle of a rainforest. The scenery was spectacular (large coconut palms, vast amounts of greenery and exotic animals), the exercise was good and the atmosphere was peaceful - I was occasionally overtaken by cyclists, but apart from them there were no other people of vehicles to be seen (or heard). A huge contrast to densely populated Singapore!
A few observations from my day on Pulau Ubin:
You could quite easily cycle along the main roads of the island and be oblivious to the insects and reptiles that are living just a few yards away. At times, I wished that I'd done this! I was blissfully ignorant of all that was around me until I spotted a large spider. And then I couldn't stop seeing them! They were everywhere! There are plenty of snakes, too. By sticking to the main roads, I only saw one - but if I'd ventured off the main road and into the forests I'm sure it wouldn't have been long before I'd seen more! Lizards are pretty common too - including giant monitor lizards which look a bit like crocodiles (especially when you're on your own, in the middle of nowhere and you're allowing your imagination to run wild!). There are apparently wild boars on the island, although I didn't see any, and a rich diversity of birdlife.
Traditional way of life
Pulau Ubin is a far cry fom modern Singapore despite its geographical proximity. It represents a snapshot of what Singapore used to be before it developed and modernised. There are no modern buildings on Pulau Ubin (just shacks made from wood and corrugated iron), water is obtained from wells and power is provided by diesel generators. The local population, which has dwindled to just a hundred or so inhabitants, makes a living from fishing and agriculture and, more recently, from tourism (bicycle hire, restaurants). An excellent retreat from fast paced Singapore - popular with locals and tourists alike.
With few motor vehicles on the island, the most popular way to get around is by bicycle. The vast majority of tourists hire a bicycle from one of the several hire shops in the village and set about exploring the island on two wheels. I can vouch that walking around the island is very tiring and it would be very difficult to see the whole of the island on foot in a single day. Therefore, at a cost of just S$3 per day, bicycle hire represents excellent value for money and a great form of exercise.
- Pros:Quiet, relaxing, no traffic, few people, untamed nature
- Cons:Big spiders and snakes!
- In a nutshell:A relaxing retreat from fast paced Singapore!
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What an impressive and comprehensive description of this small island. I was there 3 years ago for cycling. Happy NY to u.
Frequent flyer points to your frequent visits to my pages lately!Nice page here - much like the scarey things in Oz - snakes,huge and horrific looking spiders, monitors. Think id give bushwalking a miss!
Excellent impression here and useful tips! Sounds like an awesome break from the city. I have seen more of the Northern Coastline, so I'm used to the sighting of the garbage. Can image this aspect for tourist bit disappointing!
Call those spiders big. they are all legs. Now camel spiders [as used to come into my house in Sudan] are large and have mandibles, and big hairy legs.
Confession: never heard of Pulau Ubin until VT. Went to Batam and Sentosa recently. Perhaps Ubin next. Spiders, snakes and falling coconuts yikes. But not as bad as blood sucking leeches and falling durians which attract tigers. Cheers, SL
No worries, mate. No Mette effect here (GRIN) Well, one just can't win it all. Full credit to Mauresmo!
Lizards & snakes, those I like - but the spiders sound very much like the kind that would make me run away screaming... ;o)
One of the most fascinating species of spiders found on the island is the Saint Andrew's Cross Spider. It's 8 legs are actually grouped into 4 pairs. :-)
spiders, lizards and snakes - definitively no island for Mrs Globerover, I think I will have to go there on my own if I ever come to Singapore again ...
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Pair of chalk african man & woman busts. These are a matched set. I'm not sure of the age, but most likely 40+ years of age. They are solid cast, with nice weight. They measure about 9 1/4" tall. Nicely sculpted to appear life like. Good condition with the exception of a few chips on the bottom.( These are not noticeable when sitting on the table. Nice example of African art. Email for more photos.
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Old hand carved tribal art pieces made of wood and embellished with beads. Figures measures 12 1/2" tall and are in great condition with the exception of the stick is missing that was in the man's hand. The clothing they are wearing appears to be decorated with natural dyes. No cracks or splits or chips missing. Wood is of a medium weight. No signatures or marks that I can see. No idea how old these actually are, but they are old. E mail me if you would like to see a closeup of the tunic design...
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VINTAGE 1950'S F&F MOLD DIE WORKS Dayton, Ohio Aunt Jemima & Uncle Moses Salt and Pepper Shakers Each one stands 3-1/2" tall. Solid shakers with only one original plastic stopper - no chips or cracks They are missing paint on her head as seen in the photo. A classic black Americana collectible.
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Sheet music from 1936. Is it true what they say about Dixie by Irving Caesar, Sammy Lerner, & Gerald Marks. This is a great black americana collectible also. The cover art is by hhk(??) Looks like Al Jolson. Terriffic condition, a small bend on lower right corner.
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Description: Vintage Cartier square 18K yellow gold case with off-white dial, diamond marker, and sapphire cabochon crown, circa 1990s
- Condition: Excellent
- 18K yellow gold bracelet
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I know that with Italy's proportional/additional member system it is unlikely, but what would happen if the two houses had majorities from different parties/coalitions? Italy is the only country I have heard of where the prime minister needs the confidence of two separate non-figurehead legislative houses. My guess is that a new election would have to be called, and/or some ugly super-coalition government would be formed. Xyzzyva 00:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- That's just what happened in Italy some days ago. In this case the prime minister has two options: either he resigns, or he tries to expand the coalition by making agreements with other political parties. If he resigns, another two options: either new elections are indicted, or he (or another politician from the same coalition) forms another government with new political parties.--Gspinoza 20:46, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Lick my pussy boi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 126.96.36.199 (talk) 11:49, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
the time it took you to read this sentence there have been 20 italian governments installed and ended. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 22.214.171.124 (talk) 08:07, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
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The article states: "There have been frequent government turnovers since 1945, indeed there have been 61 governments in this time."
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- Italy is a Parliament-based system. A government changes when the parliament expires or when the parliament doesn't agree anymore to sustain the government team and actions.
- When this happens a "crisis procedure" starts, the prime minister resign, the President of Republic interview the parliament groups leaders and decide for a new president and mandate.
- Sometime it happens the new president is the same as the old one, but the "team" and "program" are rearranged to reflect the parliament opinions. The new team ask for a formal parliament approval, and -if it happens- the crisis closes.
- When it is not possible to find a new agreement, the President of Republic dismiss the parliament and ask new elections.
- Now, since during the "crisis" no government formally exist, even if the prime minister and the supporting coalition remain the same, we cannot say it is the same government. And we cannot even speak about "cabinet reshuffle" since there is no "cabinet": Citizens vote for the parliament composition, not for the president. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.104.22.168 (talk) 13:32, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
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The colors in the figures of the "Political parties and elections" section are out of sync with the table -- dramatically so. Westringia f. (talk) 13:43, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
There doesn't seem to be much mention of corruption? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 126.96.36.199 (talk) 22:11, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
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As far as I can see, the current governo tecnico under Monti is mentioned only in the lede. In the main article, the Second Republic subsection stops at Berlusconi IV. MistyMorn (talk) 13:28, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
The introductory section of "Government", before the "Head of State" subsection, seems completely redundant and even a little condescending in tone - an explanation of what democracy is in children's terms does not, IMO, belong here. Chuborno (talk) 17:52, 27 August 2013 (UTC)


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Wedding in Pictures: Sharmila-Mansoor Pataudi to Saif Ali Khan-Kareena Kapoor
Saif Ali Khan's parents Sharmila Tagore and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi tied the knot 43 years ago, it was not only a marriage of cricket and cinema, but also one that broke many stereotypes. He was a Nawab from a well-known Muslim family and she was a Hindu who belonged to Rabindranath Tagore's family. He was India's finest cricket captain, while she was the first Indian actress to ever appear in a bikini on screen.
Just like an ideal husband, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi always stood by Sharmila Tagore, be it her wearing a bikini in An Evening In Paris in 1967, when they were courting, or taking up glamourous roles after marriage in 1969.
On the other hand, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor fell for each other during the shooting of Tashan. Reports of affair between Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan first surfaced when the two were shooting for Yash Raj Films' Tashan on locales in Ladakh and Rajasthan.
In 2008, Saif announced that he would marry Kareena soon. In 2010 he said, "I would certainly be getting married in the next three to four years. Right now, we have our individual careers to look out for." Finally, the couple tied the knot on 16th October, 2012.
See wedding pictures of Sharmila Tagore-Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and Saif Ali Khan-Kareena Kapoor.


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Silver Leaf Of Athens705 Whitehead Road Athens, Georgia U.S.A.
Silver Leaf Of Athens ripoff do not pay you for hours worked also ripping of gardians of patients by not taking care of patients and checking them every sheduled check Athens Georgia
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She did not want to lose a nursing license before she got it. She said the people had bedsores and are not being watched at all.
So after turning in her notice. They cut her hours and her pay by two dollars. Companies like that should be shut down. You quit because you care for people and they don't want to help. So they rip the employees off as well. Also several supervisors made racists commints about her fiance. He is not the same color, but that does not change the kind of person he is. So why did they cut out her overtime completly when they found out he was not white.
Also the supervisors there curse unaproperatly to employees and patients. Do the elderly and sick a favor. Make sure you check out the place you put your loved ones. You might get a call one day with bad news.
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so i looked and looked for weeks on this site and than my FD checked came in.. i went and i made a last looked before buying it.. and i was sold... placed a order for one single light (smx4) which is now the sem4 placed it for r/r and it had a 3-5 day shipping date....
about 8 days later i got the lights and opened the box to see 4 smx4 lights in it... i started to look at the lights and i seen that some were also missing flanges, which i really didnt need them. hooked them up one at a time to figure out that one 1/2 of the lights didnt even come on,.. so i walked inside to my laptop (pan. toughbook) and got on my 5/3 account to see that i was charged for 4 instead of one... i was so mad i called led outfitters the next day to complain,
i was very upset about all of this the guy (mike) reinsured me that this would all be taken care of. so i was like oh okay thanks he sent me a the adress and i sent him the lights back....... 4 weeks pass and i call after checking my bank account still it was charged not pending or canceld so i called ledoutfitters to figure out what happen mike said that he never got it and to wait about another week before calling
a week goes by i call, hit the number to cust. service, rings rings, click. i called back same thing. so i decided that i was out of my money on 4 led lights that were $49.99 ea. x 4
months goes by and i called mike answers and states if i become apart of his co. he will give me a $230 credit for anything i want so i was like okay....so i was under the impression that this money could help me out from this other crap..
i told him the lights i wanted he informed me they were in the mail and they should of been their he asked me to verified my name address phone and birthday.... so i did and he said it should be their within the week.
to this day i still havent recieved anything www.ledoutfitters.com is a scam and you should try and stay away from them now i use (((competitors' names redacted))) .
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I was now on Wippy.com's auction page and saw all their good offers. I made a bid on an iPod shuffle for R57.17 and paid for it with my cr card. On 16 April I received an sms from my bank regarding a purchase from Ask-Wippy.com of R469.23.
I then remembered seeing something on my receipt about a 7 day free trial of membership, but was under the impression that I did not sign up for this membership, I only did the one bid, finish. I immediately send them an email about the money taken from my credit card without permission and that I do not want membership.
Up to now I have been to and thro with Wippy regarding this matter. I had to send them screen shots of my bank account to prove that this money was taken from my account.
Today I received a final reply that when I did the bid on the iPod, I was automatically signed up for membership and they cannot refund me, but membership will be cancelled without further montly fees .
Please tell me if there is anything else I can do to stop these people, because I'm sure that I am not the first person to be ripped off like this with misleading ads and luring you into unwanted membership just because you bought one article.
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Joe Romm recently wrote a piece for Climate Progress titled Nuclear Power Is Losing Money At An Astonishing Rate. In that post Romm exaggerates the amount … [Read More...] about Why are nuclear plants losing money at an astonishing rate?
First offshore wind farm in US completed. Details of FOAK costs & schedule
Deepwater Wind has completed attaching blades to the last of five massive, 6 MWe peak capacity wind turbines that make up the 30 MWe Block Island Wind Farm. That is one of the final steps in the process of installing and commissioning the facility.
By the end of 2016, the developer expects that the project will enter commercial operation and begin providing the first electricity from offshore wind turbines to the US electricity grid. It is a development with far reaching implications and several lessons available to be learned.
Consistently Powerful Political Support Is A Key Component
This modest-sized installation has been in the works since 2008. In April of that year, Rhode Island issued a request for proposals. Eight organizations submitted bids. In September, a five person panel appointed by the Gov. Donald Carcieri Administration selected Deepwater Wind LLC, a then-new entity from New Jersey without prior wind installation experience, to be the project developer.
Initially, the public utility commission (PUC) rejected the project's negotiated power purchase agreement (PPA) on the basis of excessive cost. In 2009, the state legislature passed a law supported by the Carcieri Administration tasking the PUC to prioritize project benefits like creating a new industry with local employees and producing clean power that are not strictly economic.
The final PPA starts with an electricity price of $244 per MWh. During the next 20 years, National Grid will purchase the full output of the facility at a price that increases by 3.5% every year. In year 20 of the agreement, the price paid for Block Island Wind Farm power will be $479/MWh.
In September 2010, Deepwater Wind hired Jeff Grybowski, Donald Carcieri's former Chief of Staff as its chief administrative officer and senior Vice President for strategy and external affairs. Mr. Grybowski has since been promoted to to company CEO while developing a strong reputation in the offshore wind industry as a policy guru.
Here is a quote from promotional material published by his alma mater, Brown University, in advance of his giving an invited talk there in the fall of 2015.
Deepwater Wind is now installing the first offshore wind farm in the United States off the coast of Rhode Island, the Block Island Wind Farm. Moving this pioneering project forward has required overcoming unique and complex financial, environmental permitting, contractual, regulatory, and construction hurdles. Jeff Grybowski, Deepwater Wind's CEO, will discuss this success and what it means for the development of clean energy in the United States.
Grybowski has been at the forefront of shaping the federal and state policies supporting offshore wind in the US, including playing key roles in the development of federal rules governing the leasing and permitting of offshore wind projects, federal tax policies supporting renewables, and policies at the state level throughout the northeast for offshore wind, transmission, and renewables.
The project has overcome a number of challenges and schedule modifications; in an October 2012 issue of North American Windpower it was described as a $205 million project with an expected completion date before December 31, 2012.
It will only miss the initial date by slightly less than four years. That's not too bad for a first-of-a-kind project developed during trying times in the energy market.
The current tally for the complete project is $451 million, which includes $225 million for equipment, construction and installation, $118 million for design, legal and permitting, and $108 million for the undersea cable needed to connect the facility to the established mainland grid.
Though the project will qualify for the 30% of project cost investment tax credit (ITC) in lieu of the production tax credit (PTC), the developer has not yet made it clear how much of those costs will qualify for the credit.
The undersea cable is an integral part of the project's operation and economics; though Block Island residents are the customers most often mentioned, the Island's peak power demand during the height of tourist season is only 5 MWe.
Instead of supplying that small amount of power directly to Block Island, Deepwater Wind's agreement is with National Grid. That large utility will mix its production with other wholesale power supplies and pass the PPA costs to all of the customers that it serves. Individual homeowners served by the utility will thus pay about $1.35 per month for the small amount of expensive power.
Avoiding NIMBYism With Substantial Local Benefits
One way that the project developers proactively dispelled local objections to the wind facility was to carefully design and package the system so that it provided substantial benefits for island occupants and visitors. It then worked diligently to ensure that people understood how the project would directly improve their lives.
Because the wind farm is only 3 miles off of the southeast coast of Block Island, the island is a good location for the required electrical substation to combine the output of the five turbines and send it to shore. After decades of discussion and dreaming, the island could be connected to the grid and no longer need to generate its electricity by burning high cost, high pollution diesel fuel in locally operated and maintained generators.
Electricity for both commercial and retail customers on the island has cost as much as $600 per MWh (60 cents per kWh) in recent years, with a fuel adjustment surcharge accounting for up to 75% of the total cost.
The new undersea cable allows Block Island Power Company to become a distribution-only utility. It will purchase its power from the New England grid at a much more affordable price than is possible when burning diesel fuel. The undersea cable is robust and fault tolerant; the backup power concept in the remote case of failure will become portable generators transported to the island by barge.
Another pleasant benefit for island residents and visitors will be vastly improved communications capability via the six strand fiber optic cable that was included in the package.
I spoke with Whitney Kneisley of the Storm Trysail Club, which hosts the annual Block Island Race Week. Ms. Kneisley told me that the club's members — like most sailors — are strong supporters of clean energy projects. They are excited about the Block Island Wind Farm, especially since the five turbine installation does not interfere with the normal routes taken during the round the island race that they sponsor.
State Of The Art Turbines
The project's wind turbines will be Haliade 150's, a new design from GE's recently acquired Alstom division. The nacelles are mounted on towers that are 100 m tall above the water; the height from water surface to the highest swept point is 180 m.
Deepwater Wind announced the contract signing for this cutting edge design in February 2014. The first unit of the new design had completed initial installation in November 2013; the design completed its final type certification in January 2015. (Details from 4Coffshore.com)
Clean Energy Jobs
Some parts of the towers were fabricated by 14 newly hired employees at Specialty Diving Services in a large hanger type building at the Quonset (Rhode Island) Business Park; the turbines and blades were manufactured by Alstom in France; the 20 mile long undersea cable was fabricated in South Korea; and the steel jacket foundations anchoring the towers to the seabed were manufactured in Louisiana by Gulf Island Fabrications, a company with experience building foundations for offshore oil and gas drilling rigs.
Approximately 330 temporary construction and electrical workers were involved in the actual tower, turbine and cable installation.
Once the wind farm is in operation, Deepwater Wind hopes to move on to additional projects, including one that is aiming to serve Long Island, another island with high electricity rates and a power supply system dependent on burning oil.
Note: A version of the above first appeared on Forbes.com under the headline of Is Offshore Wind Finally Ready To Serve U.S. Power Needs?`
Why are nuclear plants losing money at an astonishing rate?
Joe Romm recently wrote a piece for Climate Progress titled Nuclear Power Is Losing Money At An Astonishing Rate.
In that post Romm exaggerates the amount of support that the New York Zero Emissions Credit (ZEC) will provide, absolves the massive build out of industrial scale wind and solar from any responsibility for contributing to the situation, offers an incomplete analysis of the real causes and effects of unsustainably low wholesale market prices and provides a slanted suggestion for implementing a solution.
How big is New York's Zero Emission Credit?
Like many observers that do not like the idea of helping existing nuclear plants survive temporary market conditions, Romm accepts the very high end of the estimated range of costs for the New York ZEC. With a link to a Huff Post piece By an infamously antinuclear author named Karl Grossman, Romm describes the plan as a "$7.6 billion bailout of nuclear."
That description overlooks the fact that the equation for the administratively-determined price of the ZECs includes a term that will automatically reduce the amount paid when the predicted wholesale market price of electricity rises above $39 per MWh. Unsurprisingly, given Grossman's known antinuclear attitude, his article did not mention How wholesale electricity prices above $56 per MWh would result in zero cost ZECs.
Romm should have known better than to trust a single source, especially one with a long-standing agenda of eliminating nuclear energy.
Should we blame renewables?
Romm also takes issue with the notion that unreliable energy system growth is causing market price problems for nuclear energy. He admits that wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and waste-to-energy are still receiving substantial direct payments and market mandates from governments at the local, state and federal level, but he claims that those subsidies are appropriate for emerging technologies that ar still progressing down the cost curve. Besides, he says, those generous subsidies are scheduled to be phased out.
Romm is apparently banking on the fact that many readers don't know that wind and solar subsidies have been in place since the early 1990s and have been "scheduled" to be phased out at least 5 times already.
Instead of blaming his favorite power systems, Romm says that we should blame "cheap natural gas." He avoids acknowledging that the massive buildout of wind and solar enabled by the $25 billion that the Recovery Act has dolled out to renewable energy programs has successfully increased the quantity of wind and solar electricity generated by an amount that has finally begun to be visible in EIA statistical reports.
Since weather-dependent sources displace mostly natural gas fired electricity if they are available, the increase in renewable generation has contributed to the current gas market oversupply and low price situation. If the electricity produced by new wind turbines in Texas, Illinois and Iowa had come from burning natural gas, there would not be a gas glut threatening to overflow available storage reservoirs.
The glut is the reason prices are low; fracking makes gas abundant, but it does not lower the cost of extraction compared to conventional drilling.
Blame market design
Romm turns to Peter Fox-Penner for an explanation of the market challenges facing nuclear power plants. His published quote from that conversation is intriguing and offers an opportunity to find common ground.
While I agree that premature closure of safely operating existing nuclear is a terrible idea from the climate policy standpoint, he overlooks the fact that this consequence is neither "unintended" nor the "fault" of solar and wind. This is the very-much-intended result of the way electric markets were designed, and you can be sure this design was not formulated by wind and solar producers and is in so sense their fault.
I concur. The current market structure was purposely invented by market-manipulating entities like Enron to give an advantage to natural gas traders, build an alliance between natural gas and renewable energy and crowd nuclear energy out of the market in order to enable increasing sales for both gas and renewable power systems.
Price on carbon
Romm once again blames the nuclear industry and independent nuclear advocates for not sufficiently supporting the fatally flawed 2009 climate and energy bill. He says the bill would have put a price on carbon, but it did so through the same "cap and trade" mechanism that has proven incapable of actually addressing carbon emissions in example markets like Europe and California.
The politically determined amount of available credits for incumbent producers has invariably been set so high that those credits usually trade for a value that is too low to influence system purchase decisions. They are often so low that they don't even influence operational choices between burning high emission fuels like brown coal instead of somewhat lower emission fuels like natural gas.
Romm is right that a price on carbon would help nuclear energy from both established plants and new projects compete, but that price needs to be predictable and sufficiently high before it will influence decision making. The rising fee and dividend approach advocated by the Citizens Climate Lobby and James Hansen has a much better chance of successfully reducing CO2 emissions.
Effective solutions
Nuclear energy is not inherently uncompetitive. Fuel costs are low and predictable, equipment is durable and often needs little maintenance or repair, life cycle emissions levels are extremely low, waste is compact and easily managed and paying people fair salaries for productive work is an economic benefit, not a disadvantage.
The established nuclear industry, however, has done a lousy job of controlling its costs and marketing the benefits of its product.
It needs to work more effectively to ensure that regulators do not ratchet requirements, especially when they are imposed for the purpose of producing the right political "optics" with no measurable improvement in public safety. Achieving that condition will require the industry to take a more adversarial approach to regulators. Under the American system of jurisprudence regulators and the regulated are not supposed to be friends and partners.
There is also a need to recognize that innovative, advanced reactor systems that incorporate lessons learned during the past 60 years of commercial nuclear power generation offer the opportunity for long lasting cost reductions. Many of the smaller designs offer the same kind of volume-based learning curves that have so effectively reduced the cost of weather-dependent collector systems like wind turbines and solar panels.
I agree with Romm on the subject of nuclear energy subsidies. They are unaffordable because nuclear is far too productive to remain a small and emerging technology whose subsidies can be lost in the weeds. At this point, that same statement can be made about wind and solar energy. Subsidies for those systems need to actually phase out this time or they will become ever more unaffordable.
They will also become an increasingly important obstacle to the real goal of cleaning up our electricity generating system and enabling it to grow rapidly to provide an ever larger share of our total energy needs.
Battle Hymn of the Atom
If you plan to attend future nuclear energy rallies, it might be worthwhile to practice singing Battle Hymn of the Atom. It's sung to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic Update (posted August 16 at 6:45 PM EST) After incorporating the inputs from comments here, this is the current version. Battle Hymn of […]
Warning: Amory Lovins is influencing national security decision makers
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New York's environment progressed one step forward
The US environment and electrical supply system measurably improved yesterday. That is something worth celebrating. The New York State Department of Public Service (NYSDPS) took a small, but significant step forward yesterday. By a vote of three yeses and one concur, the commissioners decided to implement a clean energy standard that includes zero emission credits […]
Fighting climate change with best available tools
Today, the New York State Department of Public Service (NYSDPS) will consider a motion to establish a large-scale renewable program and a clean energy standard that will result in a price floor for wholesale electricity prices from zero or near zero emission power sources. Nuclear advocates from New York, along with supporters from around the […]
CGNP granted "seat at table" for two CPUC proceedings involving Diablo Canyon
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Some people who are not well versed in human history believe that fossil fuels are inherently evil, costly and harmful to human health. They ignore the side of the accounting ledger that documents the incredibly beneficial effects concentrated fuels have provided to overall human freedom, happiness, self actualization and reduction of dependence on nature. Those […]


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Dean Newman lives in Georgia but he travels across the Savannah River to work in South Carolina where he said gas is less expensive.
Newman was taking advantage of those lower prices on Thursday as he was filling up at Murphy Express on Richland Avenue in Aiken, where regular unleaded gas was $2.99.
Newman's assessment of the cost of fuel was correct as the AAA Carolinas announced this week that South Carolina had the lowest average gas prices in the country for the second year in a row.
The national average for gas prices in 2013 was $3.49, which AAA reports is 11 cents lower than in 2012. South Carolina's average gas price in 2013 was $3.24 in comparison to $3.35 in 2012.
"Increased refinery capacity, more fuel-efficient vehicles and higher production of North American crude oil helped push prices lower in 2013," David E. Parsons, president and CEO of AAA Carolinas, stated in a press release. "We expect these trends to continue into 2014."
Though South Carolina's average fuel costs dropped in 2013, it's still a little more than 60 cents higher than it was in 2011 when it was $2.60.
Earlier this week, some local gas station prices were sitting about 20 cents lower than they were on Thursday. For example, gas stations along East Pine Log Road offered prices as low as $2.88 on Monday but prices jumped to $3.08 in just a few days.
The sudden change in prices could be due to several reasons, according to AAA Spokeswoman Angela Vogel Daley. Competition between gas stations can affect the prices or they are expecting to pay more for their next shipment of fuel, which could also cause the prices to spike, she said.
Vogel said the prices may flatten in the coming weeks since the holiday travel season, which started on Dec. 21, is over and the demand for fuel will likely decrease.
Motorists may see an increase in gas prices in February due to oil refineries conducting annual maintenance in which they reduce capacity during that time.
To locate the lowest gas prices around Aiken County, visit www.aikenstandard.com/local-gas-prices.
Amy Banton is the County reporter for the Aiken Standard. She has been with the publication since May 2010.
She is a native of Rustburg, Va. and a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College.


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Definición de cupel en inglés:
A shallow, porous container in which gold or silver can be refined or assayed by melting with a blast of hot air which oxidizes lead or other base metals.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- On cooling, the prill is carefully extracted from the cupel.
- We produce several capacity crucibles and cupels and only use selected virgin materials for production.
- Absorption is facilitated by manufacture of the cupel from a porous material such as bone ash.
verbo (cupels, cupelling, cupelled; US cupels, cupeling, cupeled)[with object]
Assay or refine (a metal) in a cupel: to extract the silver, the Greeks roasted the ore and then cupelled the molten metal
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- The product is then cupelled to increase the dross to the range of about 50-65% by weight bismuth.
- The lead button is cupelled to oxidize the lead leaving behind a dore bead containing the precious metals.
- Gold and silver bullion that remains in a cupelling furnace after the lead has been oxidized and skimmed off.
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- The lead alloy was then separated into its component metals by cupellation.
- In cupellation the lead button is again heated in a furnace at 960°C to 1000°C, but this time in a bone ash cup or cupel.
- No doubt the high silver content of Mendip lead was an important factor in its early exploitation, but we have no means of assessing either the total output of lead or of the amount of silver extracted from it by cupellation.
Early 17th century (as a noun): from French coupelle, diminutive of coupe 'goblet'.
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