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...hill where the road emptied into a village. We bounced slowly over the cobblestones of the street, beginning to get the feeling that cars weren’t big in town. Three older Italian men in suspenders, who were tanned the color of leather from the boiling Calabrian sun, sat playing chess under the awning of a caffé while sipping espresso and motioning with their hands. Every one of them was the spitting image of my grandfather, though he’s in Florida playing bridge and sipping scotch. Suddenly, one of the men leapt out of his seat...
...three-story buildings that make up the rest of the neighborhood. “It’s going to look like Manhattan but not with the Manhattan income,” resident Edward Oloskey said. “We’ll never see the sun again. It’s going to be a nightmare.” Residents also demanded more condos, retail space, and parkland, in addition to greater income diversity among the residents of the proposed Charlesview apartments. In mid-February, Community Builders, Inc., the firm that has led negotiations with Harvard on behalf...
...solar power with a twist: it harnesses the heat of the sun, not just its light. Instead of directly converting sunlight into electricity with photovoltaic panels - the kind you might see on rooftops - solar thermal uses rows of specially curved parabolic mirrors to focus sunlight on a pipe full of synthetic oil. The sun's energy superheats the oil, which is then used to boil water into steam. The steam runs turbines, which generates electricity. The technology is as simple as any fossil fuel plant, and cheaper by material than the technologically complex photovoltaic panels. It can be more easily...
...need is a lot of sun, a lot of space and a lot of mirrors - and NS1 has all of the above. 182,000 parabolic mirrors are spread over 400 acres of flat desert, creating a glistening sea of glass visible from miles away. Up close they're shaped like shallow satellite dishes, chasing the sun's movement as it passes through the sky. On the cloudy day I visited, the plant was running at less than full capacity, and some of the mirrors were turned downwards to block the force of the wind, which had the glass vibrating. Although...
...From the Cornell Daily Sun reporter next to me: The atmosphere in here tops the craziest he's ever seen in Lynah. Not even tip-off time yet, and they're going nuts. It's packed...