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...least part of the future. Five and a half years ago, the lights went on at Xtreme Power with half a dozen employees and a vision to make wind power an easier sell. One of the big stumbling blocks in persuading utilities to buy wind is its unpredictability. The wind blows, and then it stops, while utilities' customers demand a constant flow of power. Xtreme's solution: a shipping-container-size power-management system that takes in energy from wind farms, stores it and then smoothly releases an uninterrupted supply of it out the other...
...notion that Washington and other states could learn something from Texas government, as do a third of Texas Democrats. That's a third Bill White will have to woo, along with attracting independents to his cause in a year when, as Perry pollster Baselice says, "the Republicans have the wind at their backs...
...wind up here? There were two contradictory trends that emerged in the 1990s. [On the one hand,] there was the concern that girls were not getting the same treatment as boys in school, especially around math and science. Reviving Ophelia, about self-esteem in young women, was on the best-seller list for three years. And of course there was the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas drama on television, in which people saw on their screens an African-American woman's charges against Thomas utterly dismissed. That produced a huge backlash, which prompted a record number of women...
...wind tunnel, for example, costs close to $40 million to construct, not counting the corps of engineers needed to run it. Average annual team budgets had climbed near $300 million and the biggest teams spent $500 million. Sponsorship and prize money rarely brought in half that. "Very few of the teams could actually make any money," says Caroline Reid, who co-authors Formula Money, the authoritative guide to F1's finances. (See a brief history of Formula...
Toward the end of last season, Mosley and the teams finally compromised on something called a Resource Restriction Agreement that takes effect this season. It isn't a cap, but it clamps down on runaway costs like wind tunnels and in-season testing. The big teams can still outspend their smaller rivals on, say, computer simulations, but just about everything in F1 is downsizing. It's now possible to field a respectable team, if not a winning one, for $100 million a season. New FIA president, former Ferrari manager Jean Todt, has pledged to bring costs down further...