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Walking into Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre’s “The Maids,” I mentioned to the usher that some problems, in addition to the oppressive heat, had made my day heavy. When she replied that the play wasn’t going to help, I was taken a bit by surprise...
...hard enough staying cool these days, what with heat indexes topping 100 degrees around the country. But it doesn't help that a growing number of petty thieves looking to capitalize on rising copper prices are stripping air conditioners to sell the cooling coils on the black market...
...Earl Dudley Associates in Birmingham, Ala., 10 fans do little to tame the 97-degree heat. Last weekend, four of the surveyor supply company's air conditioning units were mined for their copper coils. Six other businesses on their block languish with open doors, waiting for their air conditioner replacements. "I'd just like five minutes alone with the guys who did it," says sales manager Mike Smith, as he wiped sweat from his brow...
...core. No stringer. Aviso sandwiches 1/4 in. of honeycombed material or foam between sheets of unidirectional carbon fiber--for a strong matrix--then seals it with heat. The deck and bottom flex independently: the cavity gives the rocker room to straighten out, pulling the rails and allowing for more speed on turns. Caution: your wax job might melt on these black boards...
...toward a cleaner-coal future in Europe. Vattenfall is building a $63 million, 30-MW pilot plant in the east German town of Schwarze Pumpe that uses another, untested clean-coal technology: oxyfuel. The plant will burn coal with pure oxygen instead of air, mixed with CO2 to keep heat levels manageable. What's left is pure CO2. Some is recirculated to aid combustion; the rest is easily captured for sequestration. If the combustion technology works, Vattenfall will build a 250-MW demonstration plant that will transport the captured CO2 to an underground storage site. It hopes to start building...