Hints and tips:
...One investment recently added to the IEM portfolio is in Prysmian, a company that produces electrical cables and fibre optics....
...The largest cablemaker by market share, Prysmian Group, has a ship that is 171 metres long and equipped to lay cables at up to 3,000 metres deep....
...Passengers press a button to choose their destination before entering a stationary cabin that manoeuvres under its own electrical power before attaching to the main cable....
...We would design around it by putting the reactor far away or building up a berm of the lunar regolith to protect the crew members and distributing the power via long cables....
...“We see an elevated risk of this being the case in the USA.”...
...Demand for interconnectors is rising as the EU and other countries work to develop more flexibility in their grid systems, boost cross-border electricity trade, and connect new renewable power to the cities...
...America’s rewiring plans — coupled with similar efforts under way in Europe as part of Brussels’ Green Deal programme — is good news for cable makers like Nexans and its Italian rival Prysmian....
...a product used in the country’s broadband networks, after poor quality and out of date systems caused a vulnerability of “national significance” last year....
...In the US, data usage via the cable company Comcast is up 32 per cent nationwide, and by over 60 per cent in locked-down cities....
...“It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”...
...Rich people bought the media, and the political system (via overt campaign donations and more opaque methods)....
...develop contact tracing systems....
...But it has taken the superstar power exerted by the largest tech platform groups to make it clear just how uncompetitive our supposedly free market system has become....
...“Compensation systems — designed in an environment of cheap money, intense competition and light regulation — too often rewarded the quick deal, the short-term gain, without proper consideration of long-term...
...That is a meaningful difference even to a simple smartphone-based VR viewer, let alone the cumbersome system of cables, sensors and controllers that PC-based systems involve....
...Altice USA, the US arm of billionaire Patrick Drahi’s cable and telecoms empire, has raised $1.9bn in the second-biggest US initial public offering of the year....
...Cablevision Systems in the past two years....
...A £2.8bn plan to build 100 miles of new electricity cables in Cumbria has been put on hold by National Grid because of doubts over the proposed nuclear power station the infrastructure was designed to serve...
...Given current mood, System 1 perceptions could easily trump System 2 facts. I would pay close attention to tonight’s news and the coverage of today’s market action in weekend papers like USA Today....
...The company sold off some of its flagship businesses, such as lightbulbs and appliances, to fund a string of acquisitions to get into cable television, military equipment and property....
...Biffa was founded as a business serving London’s coal-fired power stations 100 years ago....
...We build layers of structure to conceal the viscera, the cables, conduits and wires on which modern life depends....
...It is unclear if Comcast and TWC would agree to further concessions to ease regulatory worries over the combined company’s footprint in pay-TV and broadband and its negotiating power over TV programmers....
...on distribution over its cable systems....
...To become a groundbreaker and a power in media is to know how to market, sell, promote and create....
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