electricity fuel, my country

after weeks of speculation, our country's electricity tariff is finally increased. the reason: increase in global fossil fuel price. another reason: previous tariff is not good enough to promote renewable energy development!

and I also noticed that there will be 1% surcharge on certain class of consumer. the statement by the national electricity company is as follow:

'In line with the Renewable Energy (RE) Act which was passed in April 2011, the Government will impose 1% as Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) for RE Fund, effective 1st September 2011. The fund will be utilised for promotion and development of RE projects and initiatives and will be managed by Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA)'

so are we going to see a leap in renewable energy in my country? it's going to be excited development, in the coming months. I hope.

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nuclear fuel Germany

so Germany is going to phase out all of their nuclear plants. may be it's political decision, but I really want to see how are they going to fill in the about quarter of their energy source. I read about the possibility of going efficient may contribute to 10% reduction of electricity usage.

this is very excited. as an electrical engineer I really want to see how this advanced country overcome the 'opportunity'. last week, the UK announced that they will stick to nuclear power plant. this week Germans is doing the opposite. I'm still waiting announcement from the Japanese government.

once I went for a course on electricity. the speaker said "no one need electricity. you can get electrocuted. if anyone can figure a different way to light a bulb, electricity is history". I don't know whether the quote is worth but it's a challenge.

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kids

my daughter wearing a hand-made mask. she's very proud with what she could make. she got all the support from her parent on her achievement.

I love my kids very much. time is pretty much short.

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nuclear fuel UK

I heard that UK won't scale down their nuclear reactors development despite what happened in Fukushima, Japan. perhaps the UK has some solutions to minimize any haphazard on their plants. I found it interesting because it is Japan will announce their energy fuel policy.

for my country, the decision whether to go for the nuclear power station is on hold. may be they wait for further announcement from other countries as well. in the case of my country, it is even dramatic because recent news of rising the electricity price was largely unpopular. the government claimed that the increment is unavoidable because of the rising price in oil, gas etc.

either way my car will be sold in short time.

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interview II

the interview yesterday was one of the tough one. they surgically dismantled me with very detail questions on everything that I wrote in the CV. they even asked me to design some electrical circuit. there you go, another interview session which I suspects will go into the drain.

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interview

I will have another interview today, the third within this month. I have no idea what is the outcome for the other two interviews. it has been more than three weeks and nothing come up. what is going on with me?

again I'm asking for help.

performance assessment, '360 Degree Feedback, The Powerful New Model for Employee Assessment & Performance Improvement', by Mark R Edwards and Ann J Ewen

currently I'm reading a book entitled '360 degree feedback, the powerful new model for employee assessment & performance improvement', by Mark R Edwards and Ann J Ewen. the book was published in 1996. I read this book because my friend who is working with a government agency told me that they might be using the system.

under the scheme, an employees  will be assessed not only by his supervisor but also his peers, customers, himself etc. in 2006 or 2007, I was experimenting with that kind of system. as a head of unit, I chaired the assessment sessions which also comprised the employee and his direct supervisor and supervisor's supervisor. we talked frankly about the employee performance. in my hand I also had the data on the employee achievement for that year. on top of that, I also gave the employee the chance to rate his/ her peers.

I got the idea of doing that from all the reality shows on TV, particularly 'The Apprentice'. now that I've read the book, I'm feeling great. not that the system is perfect that I'm actually can do or think something. I've always complained that the current system of appraisal was non-objective, that the supervisors tend to remember one or two events (good or bad) of that year and that is it. I'm great!

but who cares? I'm jobless now.

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