But overall The Times has embraced new tools with enviable energy and imagination, and even managed to let its hair down in the process.
The new one is bigger - about 180 times stronger in energy release compared with last Tuesday's tremor.
As detailed in a recent New York Times article, they are already importing solar panels, energy-efficient lights and tent shields for insulation.
Senators John Kerry and Lindsey Graham, in an editorial in the New York Times last fall, laid out a plan for an energy bill that includes nuclear power.
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Several insurance companies are expected to formally accuse JP Morgan Chase of engineering loans to Enron disguised as trades to allow the troubled energy company to disguise losses, the New York Times reports.
John White, executive director of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technology, told The New York Times.
But maybe we can take encouragement when the idea of the benefits of energy exports makes the first page of the New York Times business section.
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"Ford's decision shows that people who say you can't make cars cleaner and more fuel-efficient are wrong, " the energy policy director of the Sierra Club told the New York Times.
V3Solar proved that point when it unveiled its new spinning, cone-shaped solar panels, which can generate 20 times as much energy as flat panels.
About 100 times the world's total energy demand at that same moment, according to New York-based researcher Weather 2000.
Speaking of batteries, a new lithium-ion battery developed by USC utilizes nano-sphere technology to store three times more energy while cutting charge time down to just 10 minutes.
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Apple is the latest high-profile American entity to say it was the victim of a recent cyberattack, following similar admissions by Twitter, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and the U.S. Department of Energy.
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