The collapse of an ambitious project to plant dozens of giant windmills off Jones Beach has been an unhappy blow to the renewable-energy optimists, the ones who have waited for years for the country to finally get serious about weaning itself from fossil fuels.
So Republicans have suffered more than an election defeat, they've seen the collapse of a decades-long project.
At the time of writing Gravity, he had recently been through a divorce, and was reeling from the collapse of another project, a children's film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg.
It was the frustrating collapse of that project a few years ago that spurred him to return to the South.
Here's an intriguing move: crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has commissioned a freelance journalist to investigate — and ultimately (it hopes) explain — the collapse of a high profile drone project which was also the most funded European project to date.
After the cancellation of a new opera written by Lee Hall, the Tony Award-winning book writer and lyricist of "Billy Elliot: The Musical," its author says that discrimination against gays led to the collapse of the project, while a school whose students would have taken part in the opera said it had withdrawn because of concerns about strong language.
But what has most galled people like Mr. Robbins, who sank much of their life savings into their dream homes, was Mr. Trump's suggestion that the collapse of the project was a blessing — because it had allowed buyers to avoid the housing crash and the resulting plunge in home values.
Sontag wrote, about anti-aging, "The collapse of the project is only a matter of time".
Bill Finch, a Democratic Senator whose district includes Bridgeport, said the collapse of the project illustrates that the scandal is beginning to interfere with providing services to the public.
"And the result of that would be the collapse" of the project.
