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Utilities are planning to bury power lines after the LA fires. Should they?
We take a closer look at Southern California Edison’s plans to go underground with power lines in Altadena and Malibu.
Texas utility regulators could make grid history with 'superhighway' lines
Texas utility regulators with PUC could make grid history with first use of 675 kilovolt transmission lines in the ERCOT grid ...
Thousands without power after severe storms move through North Texas
About 8,000 Texans were without power Sunday morning, according to the Oncor outage map. Most of the outages were reported in ...
Everything you need to know about the Amtrak train from San Antonio to Austin
Amtrak, the national rail operator, operates more than 300 trains every day to more than 500 destinations, with 21,000 route ...
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Transmission Map-Guided Joint Source-Channel Coding for Underwater Semantic Communication
To this end, this article proposes a transmission map-guided JSCC (TGJSCC) for underwater SemCom to better extract and transmit the semantic information of underwater degradation images, called TGJSCC ...
As political winds shift, Austin braces for renewable energy impact
As Valerie Paxton describes it, the solar array at the La Loma Community Solar Farm is performing a sort of "magic" – the ...
Bill limiting wind, solar energy sails through Senate despite grid worries
Despite broad opposition from the rural Texans its author says it would protect, a bill that would put new restrictions on development of renewable energy has sailed through the Senate. Critics say ...