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...many items. Take solar power, where Sanyo is a significant competitor. Although numerous start-ups in the U.S., China and Taiwan have been investing in the technology over the past two years, generating electricity from solar panels is still at least twice as expensive as buying it from the fossil fuel--reliant U.S. utility grid. Experts say the solar-power industry will need support from government subsidies and incentives for years to come...
...Take solar power, an area where Sanyo is a significant competitor. Although numerous start-ups in the U.S., China and Taiwan have been investing in the technology over the past two years, generating electricity from solar panels is still at least twice as expensive as buying it from the fossil fuel-reliant U.S. utility grid. Experts say the solar-power industry will need support from government subsidies and incentives for years to come. Not only that, demand for energy-efficient products (as well as the stock prices of companies that sell them) tends to rise and fall with the price...
Climate change is the very definition of a global problem - its causes and effects cross all national boundaries, and so must its remedies. But if human activity in burning fossil fuels is the cause of global warming, as the consensus now holds, then human activity in the political and diplomatic realm may also prove be the greatest obstacle to an effective global response to the problem. That much was clear in Brussels on Friday in the struggles over the latest report of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC...
DuPont, which suffered twin hits to both revenue and reputation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when it had to phase out its production of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons, has made a similar environmental pledge. It sold its Dacron, Lycra and Nylon division--all fossil-fuel-based fabrics--and is concentrating on bio-based materials like Sorona polymer made from starch found in the kernels of corn. DuPont hopes to more than double its revenue from nondepletable resources, to $8 billion by 2015. The company has also cut its greenhouse-gas emissions 72% since 1990 and is aiming for more...
...will surely take generations to reverse things. The difference is, we had the leisure of beginning our long industrial climb whenever we wanted to. We don't have the leisure of waiting to clean up after it. A World of Trouble Total carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, by region [This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...