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Gone foreverWhen the difference between winning gold and going home empty-handed can come down to nanoseconds, it’s no wonder sports teams invest time and m...
It’s a clear winter morning in the village of Armeniș, deep in the southern Carpathian Mountains of southwestern Romania. Fluffy clouds sit atop the mountain peaks as a chill breeze carries a hint of woodsmoke, herbs and freshly baked bread. A steady stream of cars stops at the Dospita bakery. To say that its owner, Mihai Miculescu, is busy would be an understatement.
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Even at a young age, Jonathan Schreiber found that harnessing the power of wind was something of a breeze. Encouraged by his DIY-loving grandfather, the Austrian teenager was always playing around with scrap metal, trying to build tools. At 14, he began studying a book on how to build a wind turbine from old car parts.
“I was fascinated by how you could build things yo...
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As the sun rises over Loos-en-Gohelle, its yellow rays gradually illuminate two great mounds on the edge of the former mining town. These hulking slag heaps, relics of the past, were created by what was once one of the largest coal mining regions in Europe.
But while the industry vanished into thin air in the 1980s after over a century of coal production, this town in ...