The gasoline engine serves as an on-board personal electric utility for when you forget to plug in to the local grid, or for ensuring a total range to match that of any conventional car you'd buy today.

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While the above short bullet list may not sound like much, they have truly packed this little board with functionality and utility.

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Dickerson was schooled in the ways of water by serving on the board of a small municipal utility in Colorado in the late 1970s.

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In that situation, the National Transportation Safety Board assigned much of the blame on the utility, saying that it had no methods in place to detect structural weaknesses in its pipeline.

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The storm also knocked out power to 56, 000 customers of the Knoxville Utilities Board in Knoxville, Tennessee, just north of the national park, the utility said in a statement.

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EDF, a French utility and nuclear enthusiast, had made an offer, which was to be discussed at a British Energy board meeting on May 15th and 16th.

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