The plant, as they conceived it, would produce something like one to three gigawatts of power, which is enough to serve a medium-sized city.

NEWYORKER: In the Air

Enbw, Germany's third-largest utility, reckons that, because of falling industrial demand, it is generating three terawatt-hours less electricity a month which is the equivalent of removing a medium-sized city from the grid.

ECONOMIST: The fabled Mittelstand is feeling the pinch more than most

One modest dwelling on the edge of Koreatown has as many Roman statues in the garden as a medium-sized Italian city, if plastic ones count.

ECONOMIST: Visual blight