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...founded in 1998, is the world's largest solar-system-integration company, providing more renewable-energy systems than anyone else. They include solar panels for single-family homes in Germany; a rooftop solar system, the biggest of its kind, for the tiremaker Michelin; and solar electricity for off-grid villages in India. Conergy produces 30% of the components it sells. It also builds wind, biomass and solar-thermal systems...
...style pub. Office dA had been hired to complete the feasibility study, not to design the pub, and so the sketches they drew up for the pub were suggestions only. Office dA’s first phase of design suggestions imagined the walls of Loker as a three-dimensional grid, with nooks that would vary in depth and would contain either memorabilia or bottles for the bar, according to an individual who worked on the project and did not want to be named because of close relations with project planners. That plan was replaced with another design when students emphasized...
...sounds simple enough, right? Not quite. In order to understand such environmental ambition, it's important to realize how energy is distributed. Every energy producer - whether coal, nuclear or wind - gets paid a flat rate to produce electricity, all of which is dumped into a central national power grid and distributed through different energy providers throughout the country. Making a single megawatt-hour of electricity from wind, however, is more expensive than one from fossil fuel. So wind farmers sell credits, which are priced to cover the difference in cost and allow them to stay in business. By purchasing these...
...daily puzzle hasn't changed since her early days. It's still a 225-space grid, 15 by 15, with 180-degree symmetry and about a sixth of the squares black. The words, of no fewer than three letters, are interlocked. And nothing naughty, please. Reagle, one of the puzzlemakers who appears in Wordplay, mourns that he is forbidden to use vowel-rich words like urine and enema. (I'd guess that somebody somewhere has created R- or X-rated crosswords - English is as at least as rich in obscenities as it is in four-letter words for Irish slave...
...selection of puzzles never varied. On top was a large, stately crossword, as imposing and exciting as Queen Victoria's bustle. Beneath it was one of three puzzles: an acrostic (twice as much work for half the fun), a diagramless crossword (you're given the clues but not the grid - why?) and, once in four weeks, Mel Taub's Puns and Anagrams - sort of a kindergarten cryptic. You never saw the features that made Games magazine such instructive fun, such as Flower Power or the Spiral, and rarely found those puzzles' authors, some of the brightest minds in puzzling...