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...Fujian province. The first phase started in 2000 with a capacity of 6 megawatts. Most of China's wind farms currently provide electricity for remote villages in the far west. The west is also home to the country's largest solar power station, which is located on 3,000 sq m of a livestock farm in Xinjiang. When fully operational it will provide electricity for more than 10,000 local farmers. Although scientists say China has the potential to meet a significant portion of its electricity needs through wind power harnessed in the western deserts, making such an enterprise commercially...
Several cities boast of being the first wi-fi burg in the U.S. Grand Haven, Mich. (pop. 10,900), contends it locked up the title when it covered its 7 sq. mi. last March. But it's not the only player on the field. Cities such as Half Moon Bay, Calif.; Athens, Ga.; and Chaska, Minn., let folks roam the wireless Web from street corners all around town. Whereas those places might be ahead of the curve, analysts say that big profits have been elusive for companies backing wi-fi projects. Just because you're among the first doesn...
...radius unintelligible with "pink noise" technology embedded in the furniture. To a user, it sounds like gentle whooshing. What it does is match the frequencies of human speech to make colleagues' chatter less distracting. The cost of creating such quiet zones: 75¢ per sq. ft., about half that of conventional sound-reduction systems, says product manager Amy Sremba...
Last month, however, Keilis-Borok's winning streak very publicly ended. After nearly nine months of suspense, an earthquake warning that he and his team had issued for a 12,000-sq.-mi. area of Southern California expired without incident, marring what, up to then, had seemed to be a pretty impressive record...
...offices around the corner, everyone seems confident that things will be ready for the grand unveiling on Nov. 20 of the new, greatly expanded MOMA, a $425 million reconstruction by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi that will increase the museum's exhibition space by almost half, to 125,000 sq...