Month April 2010

Caltrain facing major cutbacks, future in doubt

Caltrain is a commuter rail line serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley. It is operated by Amtrak, funded by local and regional governmental entities, and runs from Gilroy north to downtown San Francisco. It is heavily used…

Synchrophasors. For a smarter grid

Synchrophasors sit in electricity substations and report on conditions on the lines. The current new breed of synchrophasors reports back 30 times a second rather than every 2-4 seconds as the older ones do. Better yet, it will report back…

The Mormon Worker. Radical politics and Mormonism

The Mormon Worker is an independent newspaper/journal devoted to Mormonism and radical politics. It is published by members of the LDS Church. The paper is modeled after the legendary Catholic Worker which has been in publication for over seventy years.…