ommends adding a small number of longer transmission lines that provide short cuts to different parts of the grid. Benjamin Carreras, a physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee who has conducted similar work2, says that network theory can be useful for providing insight into electric grids but must be complement

nd Environmental Change at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.“ Launched in 2006, researchers from the University of Tennessee and the DOE-funded Oak Ridge National Laboratory partnered with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to address “the combined effects of climate change and human activities on regional and global ecosyst

flashy but more reliable solutions are sometimes postponed or avoided altogether. Here are a few memorable predictions of our energy future: • 1945. Oak Ridge National Laboratory nuclear physicists Weinberg and Soodak predict that nuclear breeders will be man's ultimate energy source; a decade later, the chairman of the US Ato