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Money Is Always Good

April 21, 2010

Remember the old style phone booth? What do you mean phone booth. Way back in the dark ages, telephones were kept in glass and wooden housings. You went inside and put coins in the phone and made your call. (Superman changed clothes in there too). Well,I saw one on the floor today at the MacLean Power System booth. It was full of money and a fan was blowing the money around. Rumor has it someone will get in there and start grabbing. I'll have to check this out further.

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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.