Ibiden's pin-grid packages plug into circuit boards via dozens of tiny prongs.
These major nodes are not only critical to the nation's power-grid and telecommunications capability, but would be extremely difficult and time consuming to rebuild or repair.
"Pinterest needs to be way easier to use, " said co-founder Evan Sharp, 30, who created the site's grid-like design.
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In the rafters of the Garden in Boston there's a grid-like series of banners with the retired numbers of Celtic legends.
Both can be integrated without great pain into PreussenElektra's existing grid -- meaning, in essence, that Veba will be able to extract more economies from PreussenElektra's power generating and distribution assets.
In July, Denmark announced plans to deploy the world's most extensive smart-grid infrastructure, which could make distributed energy the country's primary source of electricity before long.
Any electrical or electronic device - including the grid's transformers - not shielded against this pulse would be, at best, taken temporarily off-line.
That's because this grid -- which is made up of everything from power lines to generators to the meters in your home -- still runs on century-old technology.
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While the top teams prospered, the three new lineups, Virgin, Lotus and Hispania, struggled and will occupy the last six places on the 24-car grid for Sunday's 49-lap race at the Sakhir circuit.
Meanwhile, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton has had a five-place grid penalty imposed for Sunday's race in Shanghai due to a change of gearbox.
In other news, the world of renewable energy is jolting for joy as Southwest Wind Power unveiled the world's first fully smart grid-enabled windturbine.
As with the homepage, the layout isn't much to look at -- it's laid out in a basic 3-by-4 grid.
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Kempton, a wiry, 59-year-old renewable energy professor at the University of Delaware with round, wire-rimmed glasses, is the U.S.' foremost proponent of what's known as vehicle-to-grid technology.
Mr Wladawsky-Berger's hospital would similarly crunch patient-data using the internet, or grid, as if it were a single, giant virtual microprocessor, but for a more earth-bound purpose.
The energy generated is fed straight into the club's electricity control cabinet where a grid-tie inverter pumps energy back on to the grid.
"LG is very impressed by the capabilities of NVIDIA's GRID Platform to deliver high-quality game streams directly to LG Smart TVs without a game console, " said Bae-Geun Kang, vice president, head of Software Development Group, TV Research Lab, LG.
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We can generate clean, renewable electricity (often in low-demand regions) and get it to where it's needed by building a national smart grid to distribute clean power -- like a high-voltage Internet.
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An EMP attack can destroy a state's electromagnetic grid and thus take a 21st-century economy back to the pre-industrial era.
But huge investments in hydropower in Bhutan (in return for the guaranteed supply of fixed-price electricity into India's grid) helped both countries.
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For decades the U.S. power grid has been grossly under-capitalized, which is at least part of the reason why it routinely operate near the limits of its abilities.
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Towards the docks, Barcelona's neat grid of boulevards fractures into a crazy-paved compaction of ancient alleys.
That is especially true now, as the stimulus package enacted earlier this year this year makes billions of dollars available to effect long-overdue and much-needed upgrades in the U.S. grid.
As you'll see in the video clips after the break, the home screen here shares some similarities with Windows Phone 8's counterpart -- in the way items snap to grid and resize, even though the former is enhanced by plenty of bouncy animation, more colors and funny sounds (designed by Japanese musician Cornelius).
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The obvious answer is that there is an acute and long-neglected need to upgrade the nation's power grid.
"It's a results-based sport at the front of the grid so the future lies in my own hands, " said the 35-year-old.
UES, which runs Russia's national power grid, the government installed a 29-year-old chief executive and told him to shake the firm up.
If Manhattan's streets were perfectly laid out on an east-west grid, Manhattanhenge would occur facing both east and west on the vernal and autumnal equinoxes.
The Japanese was handed a 10-place grid penalty for next weekend's Malaysian race for his role in tangles with Red Bull's Mark Webber at the start and BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica nine laps from the end.
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