| | News from Austria, No. 1/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | In selling off 25% (plus 1 share) of ESTAG, the "best bidder" principle was strictly applied: Electricité de France (EdF), owned by the French government, made the running, buying the ESTAG share for ATS 5.6 billion, and thus becoming a strategic partner of the Styrian regional power grid. |
 | | Experiments designed and conducted by the Institute showed that not even with optimum gliding performance a "water film" would be produced between the ski and the track surface, and that therefore a different explanation for the gliding phenomenon of the popular winter sports article would have to be found. |
 | | Franz Aussenegg, head of the Optics and Laser Technology Unit at the Institute of Experimental Physics, emphasizes that no "water film" was observed within the range of the accuracy of the measuring instruments used, which would normally detect a water film as thin as one 50 millionth of a millimeter. |
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