Under the lights: LSU in Death Valley is meant for Saturday night, and in the team’s most-anticipated contest of the year CBS won’t hold the Tigers back. The Nov. 3 matchup with Alabama will be a primetime affair starting at 7 p.m., according to USA Today. With LSU a perennial national contender and CBS in control of SEC-played games, TV broadcasting timetables have relegated the Tigers in recent years to many nontraditional day games. But CBS’s assent to nighttime play in the instance of the LSU-Alabama game makes sense, as both teams are again considered national contenders. CBS also announced it will air Georgia-Florida on Oct. 27 and LSU-Arkansas on Nov. 23. All other SEC televised games will be determined in the two weeks before kickoff.
Benefits all around: The Shaw Group Inc. is teaming up with NET Power and Exelon to develop a new technology for gas-fired power generation that could result in major benefits for electricity producers and consumers, energy security and the environment, reports cbsnews.com and The Associated Press. NET Power is based on a high-pressure, carbon dioxide oxyfuel power cycle, which produces cost-effective electric power with little-to-no air emissions. The primary byproduct is high-pressure carbon dioxide, unlike emissions released by other power-generation technologies that go to the atmosphere. Shaw said today the carbon dioxide can be used for enhanced oil recovery, which potentially greatly increases reliable reserves of oil in the United States and around the world.
Governor likes tax reform: With Gov. Scott Walker surviving a recall election, Wisconsin just became a top-tier state within the Upper Midwest for employers seeking to map out investment decisions, says Travis H. Brown in an editorial at forbes.com. Walker has sought to protect taxpayers in the Badger State, where more than $2.5 billion in net annual adjusted gross income has been lost over the past 15 years, according to data provided by the Internal Revenue Service. Also, more than 50,000 taxpayers—with an average per capita income of $68,000 for those going to Florida—have left Wisconsin since 1995. Cash-strapped Illinois can learn a lesson or two from Wisconsin and Walker’s ilk, Brown says. For more on the editorial, click here.
