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"Pumped storage isn’t a new idea. But it is undergoing a renaissance in countries where wind and solar power are also growing, helping allay concerns about weather-related dips in renewable energy output."
For more than three decades the peripatetic artist, Liu Xiaodong, has roamed far and wide from his base in Beijing to immerse himself, and the viewers of his work, in a world constantly transforming in unpredictable ways. In anticipation of his exhibition Shaanbei at Lisson Gallery, New York, for which I am writing a catalogue essay, I spoke to Liu Xiaodong over Zoom. Marco Betelli, the artist’s studio manager, kindly assisted with translations back and forth between English and Chinese.
So-called pumped storage, rather than conventional dams, is emerging as the future of deriving electricity from water's gravitational qualities.
Paraguay: narcotics hub wracked by corruption
Paraguay, which holds a presidential election on Sunday, is a small landlocked nation in South America where corruption and drug trafficking are rampant. It has been ruled for most of the past seven…