Robert Barrat

Chris Hamilton, president/CEO of the West Virginia Coal Association, recently submitted an opinion piece about the benefits and economy of coal fired power plants to The West Virginia Record with the headline “Stay with coal.” In the op-ed, Hamilton tries to outline benefits of coal fired power plants with reliability and retail economy arguments. However, one website shows West Virginia is listed in the highest 10 states for consumer electrical costs (16.3 cents/kWh).

Charlotte Lane, chair of the West Virginia Public Service Commission, recently wrote a 400-word editorial entitled “Electric Magic!” that ran in newspapers across the state. She cites the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) stating electricity is the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century. Her source for that is an NAE study some 24 years old which cites automobiles as No. 2 greatest engineering achievement, airplanes as No. 3, clean water and water treatment as No. 4 and so on.

Sinopsis En el despacho del superintendente Tom Halliday, en Scotland Yard, llega un caso peculiar y desconcertante: en plena noche, salta la alarma de la caja fuerte de una empresa. La patrulla acude pronto y son recibidos por el guarda nocturno. No hay signos de violencia ni que se haya forzado ninguna entrada. Al marcharse la patrulla se descubre que el hombre que dijo ser el guarda nocturno en realidad no lo era.