Word: coaling
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...that it's fair to ask whether Siemens is really a German company anymore. Siemens has businesses in the U.S. ranging from water technologies to medical equipment that employ 104,100 people and generate $31 billion in sales, some 26% of revenue. Asia, where Siemens is building low-emission coal-fired power plants in Shanghai, accounts for 15% of the company's sales. In Europe, excluding Germany, Siemens has 127,400 employees and nearly a third of its sales. Germany accounts for just 19% of sales but 34% of the company's staff...
...Yeltsin hit the campaign trail before a referendum on his leadership, I spent days trying to get close to the Russian President. Finally, in the bleak coal-mining region of Kuzbass, I slipped past his bodyguards and stood face to face with Russia's most perplexing figure--the leader who promised reform but later opened fire on his own Parliament, the man on whom the U.S. put all its chips even as Moscow handed the country's assets to a new class of kleptocrats, the man of the people who would become a man of the bottle...
...reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, with an auction for the rights to pollute. He believes the auction will raise $30 billion to $40 billion, which he would spend on conservation and renewable-fuel technology. Like Al Gore, he is opposed to the construction of any more coal-fired power plants. Unlike Gore, he is opposed to a carbon tax. But the 80% reduction in carbon emissions, if successful, will cause the same sort of increase in energy prices that a carbon tax might. "It's time we asked Americans to be patriotic about something other than war. There...
...sides - Japan is skeptical of North Korea's intentions - Abe will need to find a positive theme to accentuate. His best bet may be Tokyo's newest foreign policy priority: climate change. On Tuesday, Japan and the U.S. signed a landmark pact that calls for cooperative development on clean coal technology and nuclear power, including Japanese help for the first new atomic power plant in the U.S. in 30 years. Japanese media are also reporting that Abe and President George W. Bush will set a goal to cut half the world's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Tokyo hasn...
...April 1993, as Yeltsin was campaigning for votes to win a national referendum to reaffirm his tenuous hold on power, I spent days trying to get close to him. Finally, in the bleak coal-mining region of Kuzbass, I slipped past his detail of beefy bodyguards and stood face to face with Russia's most perplexing figure: the leader who promised reform but who later opened fire on his own Parliament; the man on whom Washington put all of its chips even as Moscow handed the country's assets to a new class of kleptocrats; the man of the people...