the electricity grid
The physical quantity by which electrical transmission and distribution lines are rated
What is voltage?
This American educational institution's name literally translates as "childrens' garden."
What is kindergarten?
Nobel-prize winning economist
Gotten lost on the German bus system
What is 1?
Schenectady's most famous and historical employer, whose operations today have mostly been relocated from the city
What is General Electric?
Unlike traditional coal, gas, or nuclear plants, these kinds of generators do not produce a steady or controllable amount of electricity over time.
What are intermittent (variable) generators?
This city, where a conference between the Allies and the Soviet Union was hosted, shares a name with a town in upstate New York
What is Potsdam?
Quantitative Finance student at the Stevens Institute of Technology
Moved (excluding Princeton)
2
The colloquial name for the city of Albany and its immediate surroundings, including the cities of Schenectady, Rensselaer, Colonie, Troy, and Latham.
What is the Capitol Region?
A megawatt-hour is enough energy to smelt 137 pounds of aluminum. This number is how many hours I would need to work at Dillon gym at my current salary to purchase a megawatt-hour of electricity in New Jersey on the wholesale market at peak hours on a typical weekday.
What is 3?
This was the official, in-use title for the Weimar Republic at the time it existed.
What is the German Empire (Reich)?
Vice President of Union College
Who is Michele Angrist (my mother?)
Been awarded a book by a department of my high school?
Known as "Clinton's Ditch," (after a failed U.S. presidential candidate,) this piece of upstate New York geography has been economically significant to Schenectady's and other cities' development.
What is the Erie Canal?
"Donald Trump's favorite word," Europeans certainly wouldn't appreciate his use of this continental term for electricity bill structure.
What is a tariff?
This modern, successful Chinese brewery was originally established in 1903 by German merchants in the German Empire's treaty port in China.
What is Tsingtao Brewery Co?
Former employee of the U.S. Air Force
Who is Stanley Angrist (my grandfather)?
Submitted an application to a college
What is 7?
This U.S. representative from my home county was born in "Amsterdam, New York near Schenectady" according to Wikipedia and has a degree in mechanical engineering
Who is Paul Tonko?
A British thermal unit is the precise amount of energy needed to heat a pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit. How many BTUs of electricity did the US consume in 2022?
What is 1.38*10^16?
This German city's name is literally, without exaggeration or hyperbole, the verb "to eat"
What is Essen?
Fourth human being to ever have their full genome sequenced and made public?
Who is Misha Angrist (my other uncle)?
Cried (significantly), since age 16?
What is 2?
Receive 100 points for every distinct city in UPSTATE New York which is served by the Empire Service Amtrak route.
What are Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Rome, Utica, Amsterdam, Schenectady, Albany/Rensselaer, Hudson, Rhinecliff, and Poughkeepsie?