CNN reports that experts on the nation’s electricity system point to a frighteningly steep increase in non-disaster-related outages affecting at least 50,000 consumers. During the past two decades, such blackouts have increased 124 percent — up from 41 blackouts between 1991 and 1995, to 92 between 2001 and 2005, according to research at the University […]
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William Gray and his hurricane forecasting team from Colorado State University said the Atlantic current will produce eight hurricanes this year, four of them major, Reuters reported. This is the second forecast for Gray and his team for the 2010 hurricane season, which begins June 1. Gray, considered a pioneer in hurricane forecasting, predicts the […]
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