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Renewables

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America’s first offshore wind farm is the test bed for a new industry

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BLOCK ISLAND, RHODE ISLAND

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GWYNETH WILSON first spent summer on Block Island 58 years ago. She became a year-round resident five years ago because she loves island life, except for her high electricity bills. The island, which is about a dozen miles (20km) off the coast of Rhode Island, is not connected to the mainland’s grid and, therefore, energy costs are among the highest in the country. The 1,000 or so year-round residents and 15,000 summer visitors rely on expensive, noisy, diesel-fuelled generators for power. Millions of litres of diesel are brought by lorry via ferry to the island every year. According to some islanders, brownouts (periods of low power or none at all) are common. But Ms Wilson is hopeful that all …
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Renewables: Wondering about wind

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Though wind generation is growing fast, much remains wrong with the industry

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DABANCHENG, XINJIANG

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ROW after giant row of wind turbines marches towards the snowy peaks of the Tian Shan range, harvesting energy from the air. On a blustery July day in Xinjiang in China’s far west, it is hard to stand upright beside the structures, each 90m (nearly 300 feet) high. China is better known as a land of coal and smog, but it is now increasing the generation of electricity from renewable sources faster than any other country, with more than 100 gigawatts a year of installed generating capacity from wind, a third of the world’s total (see chart). In future, wind power will be a vital source of renewable energy. If it can integrate large-scale wind generation into its electricity network, China will be an …
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Wind power: Need a weatherman

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EBay’s split should make investors happy—and corporate divorces more popular

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EXAMPLES of failed technology mergers abound, but spin-offs have a better record. The coming months will provide plenty of evidence on why they can be worth it. Several big tech divorces are in the works, as firms try to position themselves to respond more adeptly to new challenges that arise from the growth of mobile and the cloud. First up is PayPal, a leading digital-payment service, which is to split from eBay, an e-commerce giant, on July 17th and will start trading as a separate company a few days later.
Just as divorces can cost more than getting married, spin-offs tend to be more complicated affairs than mergers, says Marco Sguazzin of Deloitte, a professional-services firm that has helped many firms to break up. In corporate marriages many things can only be decided after the deal is closed. In …<div class="og_rss_groups"></div>
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EBay and PayPal: Better off alone

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The Economist explains: Why Britain doesn't frack

THE theft of rare books and manuscripts from libraries is not new. Medieval abbots used to attach precious volumes with chains&nbsp;to stop touring scholars from leaving the monastery with them. And today, valuable books appear increasingly at risk: spectacular recent heists from European libraries have exposed something rotten at the heart of the international rare book trade.Librarians, auctioneers and antiquarian booksellers converged on the British Library last week for a meeting with a dire title, “The Written Heritage of Mankind in Peril”. The conference was prompted by a theft discovered in 2002 at the National Library of Sweden and by an even larger heist ten years later at the Girolamini library in Naples. Both were inside jobs: in Sweden, the manuscript curator committed suicide when his crime was discovered; in Italy, a government appointee with no library experience was convicted of stealing 1,400 rare books and imprisoned. What has stunned the book world is not just the scale of the thefts, but how easily the stolen goods were fenced and resold.

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Rare books: Foiling the thiefs