Energy Efficiency

Indian government officials say workers at a nuclear power plant in the country’s south have been treated for poisoning after drinking water was deliberately spiked with radiation.
Routine tests showed 55 employees from the plant in Kaiga in the state of Karnataka had increased levels of the radioactive element tritium, which is used in nuclear reactors.
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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The rocketing cost of insuring against the bankruptcy of the Japanese state is telling us that the model has smashed into the buffers.
Credit default swaps (CDS) on five-year Japanese debt have risen from 35 to 63 basis points since early September.
Japan has suddenly decoupled from Germany (21), France (22), the US (22), and [...]

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Previously I’ve commented on the crash of the US$; where America started as a world saviour (or was it just our first taste of spin-doctoring) when they entered the second world war.
Americans (and for that matter the rest of the world) were warned by USA President Eisenhower that corporations and the military were [...]

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America is on the ropes and its ‘trainer’ – China – is also struggling.
Just as Kevin Rudd is weighing up borrowing more money to pump into the economy to make it look like its business as usual, so too is China wondering how much more money to pump into the American economy to buy Chinese [...]

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