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...also clumsy - they tend to create problems of silting and interfere with shipping and wildlife. Though tidal stream generation is still in its infancy, Baird estimates that with the coming of commercial-sized installations within the next five years, the cost of producing electricity for the national grid would be about €.05 per kilowatt - slightly more than gas or coal at current prices, but about the same as wind power. Perhaps the tide is finally starting to turn on fossil fuel consumption...
...Marfa, Texas. Judd filled it mostly with his rows of concrete, wood or aluminum boxes, the alpha and omega of Minimalist sculpture. It's Dia that in 1977 paid for and still superintends The Lightning Field by Walter De Maria--400 stainless-steel poles arrayed in a rectangular grid in the desert of New Mexico: width, 1 km; length, 1 mile. If Dia had been around 4,500 years ago, the pyramids at Giza could have been financed with foundation grants...
...Ministry is drawing up a list of sites that need to be protected by U.S. troops. "It looks like more damage is being done by the looting than during the war," he said. The key to getting the industry back on its feet is restoring Iraq's nationwide power grid, says Tom Logsdon, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official. "If you had that, you would reduce the looting, you'd have better civil control, and a whole lot of things become easier...
...residential neighborhoods and personal property, and firefights among rival gangs and between the gangs and residents protecting their neighborhoods has become commonplace. Banks remain closed, and arms dealers who set out stalls in local produce markets are doing a roaring trade. Add to that the fact that the electrical grid is supplying only 40 percent capacity; there are no streetlights, no telephone system, TV, radio or other reliable forms of communication; gasoline shortages require residents to line up for 10 hours in order to buy a third of a tank; the fact that the prewar jobs of millions of Iraqis...
...Dream in which the audience was seated on 500 individually hung swings, and the hemp that was used to hang the swings became the farce of Shakespeare’s play, and that was on night one; and all those swings were bussed up to the grid. The next night, there was a very realistic play, it took place in an operating room; the following day, it was used by a modern dance company...