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Europe wind generation to rise, providing relief to power costs

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Bloomberg European wind generation is forecast to increase, providing some relief to soaring power prices amid a scorching heat wave sweeping across Europe. German wind generation is expected to more than double from the peak to about 18,000 megawatts, according to a Bloomberg model. That’s still well below the 48,663-megawatt high recorded in February. Higher winds are also forecast in ...

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Putin won’t use a nuke. Chemical weapons, maybe

Putin chairs strategic development and national projects meeting

As a former military commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), I do a lot of speaking in the US and internationally about the war in Ukraine. The question I get asked most frequently is terrifying and simple: “Would Vladimir Putin use a nuke?” Fortunately, I think the odds of the Russian president doing so are extremely low. But ...

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Netflix shouldn’t take victory lap yet

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Netflix Inc has shown an uncanny ability in the past to bounce back from an unexpectedly poor showing in one quarter with a better-than-projected result the next time around. And so it was on July 19: After alarming the market with its estimate in April of a drop of 2 million subscribers for the second quarter, the video streaming giant ...

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