And lasting opportunities for the middle class in areas like clean energy, the smart grid, high-speed rail, and high-technology changes will take place.

WHITEHOUSE: VP Biden on Economic Expansion for the Middle Class

And, by the way, we can put a lot of people to work, doing the work that America needs done -- rebuilding roads and bridges, but also broadband lines and a smart grid and high-speed rail.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a DNC Event

McLaren's Juan Pablo Montoya was sent to the back of the grid last year when he dropped his speed from 278kph on the previous lap to a mere 86kph on the fast approach to Casino Square.

BBC: SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Rookies warned of Monaco 'hell'

The subsea power grid encompass pumps and compressors and large variable speed drives to transport the oil and gas from the wellhead to a processing facility.

FORBES: World's First Subsea Smart Grid Changes Offshore Oil and Gas Game

Using a powerful supercomputer, weather forecasters divide the atmosphere up into an elaborate three-dimensional grid, assign initial values of pressure, wind-speed, humidity and so on, and then apply the laws of physics to see what happens next.

ECONOMIST: Next, the fire forecast

Neither boxes are speed daemons and both lag at times (deleting Season passes, grid guide), but it's far faster than theDirecTiVo HD we used for years.

ENGADGET: TiVo HD vs. Series3 HD