Evolution Of Growing Electricity Markets

The book I read to research this post was Evolution Of Growing Electricity Markets by Various Authors which is an excellent book that I read at http://safaribooksonline.com. This book is about the various electricity generating boards around the world roughly since the 90’s. Two major developments in that time have been the emphasis on global warming and deregulation in many countries where often the boards have been privatized and competition from competing companies has been encouraged. With the former many countries like Britain have decided they are going to focus more on atomic power which doesn’t cause global warming but does have risks which could be far worse. In the wake of the Fukishama power station in Japan being badly damaged by an earthquake and tsunami many countries like Germany and Belgium have decided they will faze out nuclear power for electricity production. In the case of Germany many of the older ones have been closed and they are planning on closing all by 2022. In Japan only 2 out of 50 nuclear reactors are still being used. In the wake of the  nuclear leak they had a problem in that they didn’t have enough electricity generated in the Tokyo to satisfy demand. In other regions there was plenty of power but it had to be converted between 60 HZ and 50 HZ which is a complicated process and there were only a limited number of sub-stations able to do this. Many had to go without electricity. Japan still faces a dilemma that if they don’t replace the nuclear power station with some other form of electricity generation soon it will have an adverse effect on the economy. They have plans to buy electricity from the United States but laying supply lines could take time. Australia has a bit of a similar dilemma in that they can link up the various states with in their country to guarantee supply in times of high energy use. Australia only has a sparse and fairly small population and laying a supply from one state to another is very expensive given the amounts of electricity involved. This is a really interesting book which is around 880 pages so is quite substantial. I thoroughly enjoyed reading and definitely would recommend it. The book takes the subject on a country by country basis and is absolutely loaded with information. It is a must read.

 

Squarespace 6

The book I read to research this post was Squarespace 6 For Dummies by Kris Black which is a very good book which I read at

http://safaribooksonline.com

Squarespace is an online tool for creating websites, because they also do the hosting it saves you the hassle of uploading your site like with programs like Dreamweaver. Squarespace came about when its creator was doing college courses in web design & programming and decided to combine the 2. Initially he used the program himself and then his friends started using it and the rest is history. Squarespace is easier to use than conventional software and the interface is quite intuitive. There are squarespace apps available for smartphones & 2 apps which can be used with it are notes & portfolio. Many people update their website via tablet or smartphone. You can integrate it with a wide assortment of social media sites and you can have a search box to make it compliant with search engines. You can even add search terms to photographs and video. You can add a stream to social media sites so when you update your website the social network is automatically updated or vice versa. There are 2 payments and you should always take advantage of the free trial. There is a limited standard account & a professional account. The latter lets your website grow to any size for a flat rate. There is also a developer account where programmers can sell their services to companies and sublet the site to them. I really enjoyed this book & thought it’s very interesting.