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...Their secret? They're better operators than the former owners, publicly owned utilities, and they can use economies of scale to their advantage. Despite the fact that no new plants have been ordered in almost a quarter-century, the nuclear power sector still accounts for 20% of the nation's electricity supply. During the past decade, output has increased 25%, equivalent to building 23 new 1,000-megawatt plants. And the beat will go on: the initial 40-year licenses of a small but growing number of units are being renewed for an additional two decades...
...back in "bidness." The energy giants in Texas have big fat wallets these days--and even bigger construction plans. Not since the boom days of 1982, when trophy architects like Philip Johnson and I.M. Pei reconfigured the skyline, has Houston seen so much construction activity by the energy sector...
...Though the industries that will implement the energy policy are never mentioned, the recommendations that are neither redundant nor fluff generally sound their factories' morning whistle (The only sector mentioned is the auto industry, which, the report states, should not be "negatively impacted" by any new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. A worthy sentiment, but "negatively impacted" itself looms as fuel for later debate...
...exhibition's auto-eroticism sector does, however, include one triumphal fetish - Larry Fuente's "Derby Racer, 1975." Like some pious Latino decorating a shrine, Fuente glorified a convertible jalopy with an undulating crust of shards, beads, mirror fragments and pearly gewgaws. It is still a convincing, near folk object - an automotive equivalent, perhaps, to Simon Rodia's towers in the Watts neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles...
...budget cuts federal research dollars, leaving the work to the private sector...