Since March 29, Israeli forces have been attacking Palestinian-run cities in the West Bank in an effort to crush the infrastructure behind a wave of suicide bombings.
China's own reaction to the global contraction — a huge buildup of roads, rail and other public infrastructure alongside a wave of cheap lending for private investment in construction and other projects — sucked in imports rapidly.
"Wave-generator installation is forced to compete with the high prices the oil industry can pay .Another practical problem is the lack of infrastructure to connect wave-energy generators to the power grid.
But perhaps the underlying reason behind this purchase was a classic case of trying to stave off disruptive forces in the marketplace — in this case, SendGrid, a cloud-based email infrastructure startup making waves in the market.
Risky Business is a year-long initiative that aims to calculate how much the effects of climate change - including damage caused to agriculture, property and infrastructure by heat waves and sea level rise - will cost America on a region-by-region and a sector-by-sector basis.
"Marine energy is hugely important for the future of Orkney," said Michael Morrison, business development manager at the Orkney Islands' local government, who is helping oversee $25 million of infrastructure investment aimed at wave and tidal companies.
Mm02, like other wireless operators, has also agreed to share networks to reduce the costs of building infrastructure for the next wave of wireless technology that provides a continuous connection to the Internet.
Last year the CEO of the Green Investment Bank, Shaun Kingsbury, said he could raise up to £60bn to fund low carbon energy infrastructure, from windfarms to wave power, if the restrictions on his ability to borrow in the capital markets were lifted.
Have those flows slowed? A. There doesn't seem to be any less interest in investing money privately to help build out this second wave of infrastructure, much less vertical market companies.
