ZW:Economic growth is all that matters to them. This is sort of tied at one point in the book where you ask: “Could those who have sought to master the Sonoran Desert with air conditioning and aqueducts really call it home?” And so my question is, can they? In other words, is th...
Editors Note: Tucson’s biggest shot in the arm to grow and flourish came with World War II, the world needed pilots and flyers and Tucson had air fields, Davis Montana AFB and flying weather. After the war folks who came here to train came back and brought everyone with them….Tucson ...
Last December Tucson’s east side had a record four inches in one downpour, filling the washes, streams and rivers running east. Close by this spring, poppies filled the hillsides along the San Pedro River, between San Manuel and Benson, but one spot just south of the Redington Pass, behi...
Western Interconnect covers a large area and includes different climate regions, which leads to a large diversity across the system for both load patterns and generation types. For example, loads in the desert SW are driven largely by air conditioning, and thus, are highest in the summer, espec...
are driven largely by air conditioning, and as a result, are significantly lower during the non-summer months. Variability can be a problem with wind and solar. Many studies have examined the effects of increasing the amount of renewable energy on the grid [11–16], and all of those ...