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| MGRA Phase 2 Testimony to the Califonia
Public
Utilities Commission on San Diego Gas & Electric's Proposed
"Sunrise Powerlink" Transmission Line - The analysis for MGRA continues, with powerline contributions from the October 2007 fires, an anomalously high number of power line fires in San Diego County, implications of another 230 kV fire in 2007, and some inconsistent SDG&E wind calculations. Submitted 3/12/2008. Published online at the request of the MGRA. |
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| MGRA
Phase 1 Testimony to the Califonia
Public
Utilities Commission on San Diego Gas & Electric's Proposed
"Sunrise Powerlink" Transmission Line - An analysis of powerline fires and the wind events that both cause them and make them more destructive than other wildland fires. Submitted 5/31/2007. |
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| Union
Tribune Op-ed on SD County's "Shelter-in-Place" Guidelines -
May 5, 2007 |
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| Presentation to the Fire & Materials
2007 Conference (web version, only works
with IE): Powerpoint presentation for download Accompanying Article (.pdf) Extended Abstract (.pdf) ("Firebrand Protection as the Key Design Element for Structure Survival during Catastrophic Wildland Fires", Co-authored with Oren Patashnik and containing statistical results on curved-tile roofing. Presented Jan. 31, 2007 in San Francisco) |
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| Presentation to the Third International
Fire Ecology and Management Conference (web version, only works
with IE) |
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| (Powerpoint presentation for download) - Presented in San Diego on November 17, 2006 in the Wildland-Urban Interface Track. | |
| The Fire Safety Journal
- An academic
article on WEEDS has been published in the September 2006 edition
(Subscription required for full download,
available free of charge at many university libraries.) |
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| WILDFIRE Magazine Article
- Here are some
references for
the WEEDS
article in the March 2005 edition |
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| Home&fire Magazine - Spring
2005 edition contains WEEDS: Wind
Enabled Ember Dousing System. p. 32 |
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| Engineering
a Miracle - the
story of WEEDS (published in The San Diego Reader,
April
29, 2004) |
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| WEEDS Facts |
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| Wildland
Fire Links |
