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...that lost energy. For years the technology was too costly to be widely used outside extreme examples like the space program, but new companies like the California-based Thermo Life can produce energy from relatively small temperature differentials. Right now it's used mostly to power rechargeable batteries in wireless devices, but as the technology improves, it could begin to harness the vast amount of energy lost as heat in the fossil-fuel plants that provide most of our electricity. "Sixty percent of the world's energy is wasted as heat," says Rama Venkatasubramanian, a thermoelectric expert at the research...
Other schools, including the State University of New York at New Paltz, require students to sign up for the service in order to have wireless Internet access on campus, Crum said...
Giant IPOS are usually a sign of good, or at least frothy, times. The current record haul for a U.S. IPO, $10.6 billion, was reaped by AT&T Wireless in April 2000--just after the great tech-stock bubble began to deflate but before anybody realized it. (The world-record holder is and apparently will remain the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, which raised $21.6 billion...
...Welcome to cold, snowy, and decidedly rural Hamilton, New York, where the Harvard Crimson will be taking on the Colgate Raiders. My esteemed colleague, Karan Lodha, was all set to bring you this live blog, until his computer's wireless capabilities went caput. Fate, it seems, has dictated that I will be with you this evening, and I think it's safe to say we are all better...
...million acres (420,000 hectares) of land that IR owns along rail lines and around stations and shunt yards. Real estate developers are currently bidding to overhaul the first of 16 major stations. At New Delhi's central station, which is likely worth billions of dollars, developers plan hotels, wireless Internet services and food courts...