Energy Efficiency

Chinese officials have warned of a severe threat to wildlife from one of the country’s worst reported oil spills as an army of volunteers was dispatched to beaches to try to head off the black tides. At least one man has drowned in crude during the clean-up operation, which has expanded as the area of [...]

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The scene, near a farming district, many people employed manufacturing farming equipment, most notably a stump jump plough when cheap imports flooded the market; clones of the original yet far cheaper, eventually bankrupting the company and putting many out of work and making families destitute … The place? Australia. The offending country selling machinery from misappropriated patents? The USA. [...]

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We know that alternative energy technologies have provided a way for us to harness wind and sun energy and make electric cars and low energy lighting, but there is a problem. Not so much as problem as paradox. The Middle East is known for its oil reserves,  Australia for energy resources like coal, uranium 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 positioning [...]

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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 [...]

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