Two weeks after the inauguration, the Bush administration established the National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPD) with a mandate to develop a statement of national energy plans and priorities.
Got a laser? You’re a telecom company. Or so Wall Street seems to have concluded in the last couple of years, in the case of Coherent Inc. (COHR)
Over 650 scientists and engineers showed up for the bi-annual International Conference on silicon carbide (SiC) in October 1999. The techs were looking at the next big opportunity in Quantum Power – but irrational exuberance being what it was, Wall Street somehow got Power mixed up with Logic.
Analog Power? In a digital power report? Hard-wired analog power control circuits are dumb They aren’t programmable. Their primitive logic, such as it is, is fuzzy. But they are also blindingly fast, compact, frugal — and ubiquitous.
Every engineer and manager in the building can look out on the new production line. A glass wall runs down the middle of the building, separating cubicles on one side from clean mini-rooms and automated assembly systems on the other.
What Powercosm lessons emerge from California’s chaos? What deep technology insights can we glean from rolling blackouts and finger-pointing politicians? None at all, one is tempted to answer, and that’s pretty close to right.
