Siemens has setup its US offshore wind office in Boston, and offered assistance in specifying the technical requirements of the industry participants expected to use the port.
The stakes are higher this time: Over the past decade wind component manufacturers have setup shop in the U.S. to make turbines, blades and other parts for the massive machines near where wind farms are being built.
Not to be outdone, England just flipped the switch on the world's largest wind farm, and in Paris, Schneider Electric setup kinetic energy-harvesting tiles that generate power from runners in the Paris Marathon.
When there's no affordable child care, that hurts children who windup in second-rate care, or spending afternoons alone in front of the television set.