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...stay one step ahead requires a lot of spending on research and development and on cutting-edge factories. Sharp just opened a $1.5 billion plant in Kameyama, in central Japan, capable of pumping out 45,000 sheets of glass per month, with each sheet providing glass for eight 32-in. TV screens. And right next door, the company is building another $1.5 billion factory that will be able to produce 100,000 sheets of glass each month, with each sheet yielding eight 45-in. screens. But Sharp's competitors have also joined the race. A joint venture between LG Electronics...
...microgeneration is starting to catch on. In Goudouras, a small seaside village in southeastern Crete, Greenpeace helped set up Greece's first grid-connected solar power unit, at the local elementary school. The solar system mollified residents who opposed plans for a potentially environmentally harmful oil-powered plant in nearby Atherinolakkos...
...Spain, the agricultural town of Cuéllar, in the central province of Segovia, generates hot water and heating for 250 homes by burning pine bark and other wood residuals. The system, using no fossil fuel and similar to BedZED's wood-burning plant, also heats an indoor swimming pool, a cultural center and a school. Spain now produces 7% of the world's solar photovoltaic energy, and solar sources are "growing at a 50% clip per year," says Javier García Breva, director of the Institute for Energy Diversification and Savings, the government body responsible for promoting...
...unwise to test whether Kim Jong Il is bluffing. So getting Pyongyang back to the negotiating table?the "six-party talks" that the North walked out of last June?becomes more urgent by the month. Recently, the apparent shutdown of a reactor at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear power plant has increased anxiety that Pyongyang might be stalling for time while it harvests weapons-grade plutonium to make more warheads...
Terry was one of those who would rush home from class and plant himself in front of the computer for hours during the days when a heated debate broke out over the list...