Friday, October 07, 2016

Factoid for the day--from wikipedia--Electricity in the USA--

Principal sources of US electricity in 2014 were: coal (39%), natural gas (27%), nuclear (19%), Hydro (6%), and other renewables (7%). Over the decade 2004—2014, the largest increases in electrical generation came from natural gas (2014 generation was 412 billion kWh greater than 2004), wind (increase of 168 billion kWh) and solar (increased 18 billion kWh). Over the same decade, annual generation from coal decreased 393 billion kWh, and from petroleum decreased 90 billion kWh.[3]

U Khin Zaw was also my mentor and my father's friend--

At the funeral he came up to the car and said, "From now on,I will be your literary father." At that time he had only read one of...