Author: Evan Twarog

Evan is a Vermont resident who will be graduating from high school in 2015 and plans to pursue a career in engineering. He became deeply interested in energy and politics as a result of actions associated with Vermont Yankee.
  • The Three Gorges Dam, Why China is Run by Engineers

    Perhaps the largest single engineering project of the 20th century was the Three Gorges Dam in China. Standing nearly 600 feet tall, and 2.3 kilometers in length, the Three Gorges Dam is the single largest dam ever constructed, holding a reservoir that stretches for 660 kilometers. Standing at the base of the dam, it feels…

  • What Aircraft Manufacturers Can Teach the Nuclear Industry

    Evan is a New Hampshire resident who will be graduating from high school in 2015 and plans to pursue a career in engineering. Few innovations have shaped the world as dramatically as the development of the airplane. In less than a century, mankind went from riding horses to flying non-stop half way around the world….

  • Power In New England: Why are Prices Increasing so Rapidly?

    On October 20, IBM announced that it was spinning off its chip division by paying GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion. GlobalFoundaries appears to have won the deal with its geographic position of owning fabrication facilities in New York as well as in Germany and Malaysia. The move didn’t surprise many, as there have been rumors that IBM…