Google is testing a fleet of plug-in hybrids and software that would turn them into load-balancing tools for utilities flooded with variable power from wind and solar generators.

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Google has adroitly developed its technology, burnished its brand and captured public imagination with extensive road testing of its driverless fleet.

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Iran is fanning those fires, testing longer-range missiles and threatening to sink the U.S. Fifth Fleet in the Gulf.

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Press fleet cars are the ones yours truly gets to drive, often after a bout of track testing by "enthusiast" publications.

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If the next stage of testing goes according to plan, Mortimer says that work will soon begin on a fleet of the turbines -- manufactured by Andritz Hydro Hammerfest -- and will be installed at another site in the Sound of Islay off the west coast of Scotland.

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The trend of creating a system full of administrators such as deputy, associate, area, and assistant superintendents, assistant principals, curriculum coordinators, fleet coordinators, nutrition directors, frozen food purchasers, mechanics, groundskeepers, psychologists, parent mentors and testing coordinators among dozens of other non-teaching personnel has been just as prominent over the past two decades.

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