By the end 2017, two wind turbines off the coast of Virginia could be supplying 12 megawatts of power to the nation’s power grid, providing government energy regulators with valuable information about the practicality of large offshore wind farms.
After being idled for seven years, Washington, D.C.'s Watergate Hotel is being readied to once again provide high-end hospitality that might make guests forget it's role in history...at least for a little while.
The National Park Service and the National Geodetic Survey have announced that the Washington Monument is not quite the 555 feet, 5-1/8 inches tall as measured by government surveyors following its long-delayed completion in 1884.
Nannie, the newest member of the DC Water’s $2.6 billion Clean Rivers Project team didn’t have much to say at her formal introduction on the banks of the Anacostia River on December 12. But then, tunnel boring machines (TBMs) tend to do most of their “talking” underground. Christened to honor
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Maybe not the public transit riders, but the...
Thanks for sharing, Jim.
The Silver Line (and the whole WMATA system, for that matter) is not light rail. I'd call it heavy rail.
The pipes that are failing were manufactured under a standard that was increasingly lax from around 1950 until 1984. For example later revisions to the specifications effectively remove...