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Dark, Hot, and Jumping

May 8, 2012

Today the floor is jumping! The traffic has increased a hundred fold. I never knew you could drive a man-lift soooo fast. Everyone is hitting the horn as they move around the floor. It is a safety measure, but when you hear horns coming from every ...

Gene Wolf Blog

Add heat to this picture. It is hot and humid this morning - normal Florida weather. I had forgotten how hot May is in Florida. Of course my son would remind me the Earth was cooler when I was a kid - he's hung up on the Ice Age I think.

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Gene Wolf Blog | Technical Writer

Gene Wolf has been designing and building substations and other high technology facilities for over 32 years. He received his BSEE from Wichita State University. He received his MSEE from New Mexico State University. He is a registered professional engineer in the states of California and New Mexico. He started his career as a substation engineer for Kansas Gas and Electric, retired as the Principal Engineer of Stations for Public Service Company of New Mexico recently, and founded Lone Wolf Engineering, LLC an engineering consulting company.

Gene is widely recognized as a technical leader in the electric power industry. Gene is a fellow of the IEEE. He is the former Chairman of the IEEE PES T&D Committee. He has held the position of the Chairman of the HVDC & FACTS Subcommittee and membership in many T&D working groups. Gene is also active in renewable energy. He sponsored the formation of the “Integration of Renewable Energy into the Transmission & Distribution Grids” subcommittee and the “Intelligent Grid Transmission and Distribution” subcommittee within the Transmission and Distribution committee.