So she put soccer on hold for about four years while she travelled to Rome, worked for 2 years at start-up, Oodle.com and put her Civil and Environmental Engineering degree to work as an Energy Engineer for Emcor.
The need to engineer energy storage equipment that could work well with solar or wind power plants has prompted many private and public investments in battery and other storage technologies.
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"The mode we're in right now is to understand what's happening, " said James Klapproth, a chief engineer at GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Inc.
Maybe that brilliant Farmville engineer will soon be building our smart energy grid instead.
Arne Vogler, a senior research engineer and principal investigator at the Hebridean Marine Energy Futures project, said hurricane force gusts had also been recorded.
"Scalability is really the critical issue, " said Robert McCormick, principal engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado.
Mr. BEN HOCKSEY (Engineer, Eaton Corporation): Most of the energy used in a vehicle - the reason we have big engines in vehicles is to accelerate them up to speed at a reasonable pace, and then you only use a fraction of the power when you're going down the road.
Mr. KEVIN NEWMAN (Control System Engineer, Environmental Protection Agency): We're driving on stored energy now.
According to IBM Distinguished Engineer Harry Kolar, noise is one of the many potential environmental impacts of both wave energy and tidal energy currently being studied.
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