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Ms. Sarah Simon, P.E., M.ASCE


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Posted By Sarah Simon 10-26-2025 12:18 PM
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there are so many career resources out there - I highly recommend you check out the Society of Women Engineers programs. We've branded everything as "Leadership" lately but the business accumen courses may fit your interests. Every section has a Professional Development track, usually with mentors, and ...
Posted By Sarah Simon 07-13-2025 12:19 PM
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When we plan and build for the generations to come, "is this the right project?" needs to be the first valid part of defining the project. The EnVISION methodology and others show that sustainability needs to be built in from the very beginning. Where to build (and buy property) is as important as meeting ...
Posted By Sarah Simon 03-03-2025 11:31 AM
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Well, there are small, modular, dispatchable units like the 5MW factory built units USNC, UltraSafeNuclear . Definitely distributed energy, non-centralized grid size. Very different from the Gates/Breakthrough Energy 300 MW ones the media always covers). ------------------------------ Sarah Simon ...
Posted By Sarah Simon 03-03-2025 11:31 AM
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the power graphs show nuclear at 20%. (?) and they're base power (firm) so they run almost all the time. Maybe 8% is installed capacity and included all the gas and other peaking stations that don't run very often. ------------------------------ Sarah Simon P.E., M.ASCE RETIRED Ipswich MA - ...
Posted By Sarah Simon 02-27-2025 10:28 PM
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Those with property rapidly losing value might disagree (or not). I believe it to be self-evident that we don't use land and water reasonably, e.g. populating the southern CA desert with so many people, allowing construction where sea level rise is happening, and growing rice in the dry CA central valley. ...