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...both Europe and the U.S. may be less important than the nation that will soon be the world's top CO2 emitter: China. Cleaning up China is both the biggest challenge to green tech and its biggest opportunity, and venture capitalists are staking their claim, with their investments in green companies in China rising by 147% to $420 million between 2005 and 2006. Much of that money is being channeled into meeting China's ravenous energy needs - especially solar, which already has a homegrown success story in billionaire Shi Zhengrong, founder of Suntech Power. Water conservation and filtering...
...reduce inefficiency—the same principle that allows maglev trains to travel at very high speeds. The technology was debuted in a 2006 energy conference in Beijing, but is now being pushed in America as an alternative to expansive wind farms. The companies building magnetic levitation wind turbines claim they can operate in winds as slow as 3 mph and produce one gigawatt of power, with much greater efficiency than a typical horizontal-axis turbine. Best of all, Maglev Wind Turbine of Sierra Vista, AZ promises a one year return on investment.The prospect of a single wind tower generating...
...Willie Nelson. Most importantly, however, both men are extremely likable. Huckabee is as funny as Clinton is empathetic, and has a way of connecting with voters that no one else on either side of the aisle—save maybe Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)—can claim to possess. This goes a long way toward moderating his image as a social conservative crusader. His likeability somehow makes it less scary to many voters when he compares abortion to the Holocaust or says of the genocide in Darfur, “I think we have some role...
...inquiries,” according to CIA Director Michael V. Hayden. As for the “alternative” means the CIA used to solicit information, Hayden insists the interrogation was “lawful, safe and effective.” In the absence of any evidence, this claim proves remarkably easy to make. The New York Times, which broke the story, presents a far less benign version of the story. It insists that many intelligence officials were worried about the legality of the depicted techniques, as well as the reaction that CIA agents’ actions might inspire...
...first glance this seems to be a victory for Musharraf, who can now claim that January's elections are legitimized by nearly full party participation (several smaller parties, including that of Imran Khan, another politician with premier ambitions, have not yet decided if they will contest). But now Musharraf's smaller party, which split off from the Muslim League when Musharraf overthrew Sharif in 1999's bloodless coup, faces serious competition from both the Bhutto's People's Party of Pakistan and Sharif's party, which have wide national support...