Wednesday, December 19, 2007

A Solar Grand Plan

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From Scientific American: By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions A m...

Clerics Tell Saudi Ruler to Curb Inflation

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From The Telegraph: A Group of Saudi Arabia Muslim clerics has issued a rare warning to the ruling government that it must take action to c...

Cramer Predicts DJIA 14,582 At End of 2007

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Mr Cramer is rolling out his 2008 prognostications. Here's what he was looking for a year ago. From 24/7 Wall Street : January 3, 2007 C...

Jabal Omar eyes sukuk to fund $2.9bn project

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Name dropper. From ArabianBusiness.com : Saudi Arabia's Jabal Omar Development Company plans to tap the Islamic debt markets to help fin...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

As Ethanol Takes Its First Steps, Congress Proposes a Giant Leap

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From the New York Times: NYT Illustration Congress is on the verge of writing into law one of the most ambitious dictates ever issued to ...

Australian Pension Funds May Lead Carbon Investments, Bank Says

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From Bloomberg: Australian pension funds may be among the first in the country to invest in international carbon markets and commit to buyin...

EcoSecurities to buy clean coal carbon credits (ECO.L)

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From businessGreen: Carbon trading firm has reached agreement to buy CERs from Chinese clean coal power plants Carbon trading firm EcoSecuri...

Mining Firms Bulk Up, Echoing Big Oil Mergers (BHP, RTP)

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From the Wall Street Journal: BHP Bid for Rio Heralds A New Era for Resources; The OPEC of Iron Ore? First there was Big Oil. Now comes Bi...

Are Commodities a Bubble Ready to Burst?

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From The Telegraph: Peak oil, peak metals, and this year peak food. Every bookshop has a corner warning that mankind will soon outrun the ba...

The Price of Biofuels

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From MIT's Technology Review: Making ethanol from corn is expensive. Better biofuels are years away from the gas tank. Farmers are reluc...

Sex, population and the predicted share crash of 2008

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From this is money: In 2002, I wrote in the London Evening Standard, This is Money's sister title, about an appealing theory that claime...

Nanosolar ships First Product

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From the nanosolar blog: After five years of product development – including aggressively pipelined science, research and development, manuf...

‘Klimakatastrophe’ picked as Germany’s word of year. AND: 5 Drinking Stories That Put Yours To Shame

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From Reuters : The Society of the German Language (GfdS) has picked “Klimakatastrophe” (climate disaster) as its “word of the year”, an ann...

How the world will change (part one)

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A two-parter from China Dialogue: In the first of two excerpts from his book How the World Will Change With Global Warming , Trausti Valsson...

Property bust? Lunar land prices are rocketing

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From Reuters: Property investors smarting from this year's housing bust in the United States might do well to look farther afield -- eve...

Blackstone plans $872m investment in Ugandan dam project

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From the WSJ via Financial News Online : Blackstone ’s quest for new private equity deals has led it to Uganda's Lake Victoria, where it...

Fighting Rio piles on the prospects (RTP, BHP)

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From The Age: RIO Tinto's superior growth argument against BHP Billiton's spurned $US150 billion ($A174 billion) takeover proposal h...

Fast Money's Jeff Macke Blasts Barron's Over "Sell Buffett" Call (BRK.A) Reactions to Barron's Cover Story on Berkshire-Hathaway

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From CNBC's Warren Buffet Watch : "This stock is still up 25 percent year-to-date. He has taken the steel-toed boots to the S&...

Banks See Green in Carbon Projects

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From the Wall Street Journal: Investing Directly Adds To Potential for Profits In Emissions Trading After piling into the burgeoning marke...
Monday, December 17, 2007

Solar Stocks Comparison Table (12/17/2007)

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From China Analyst: Ticker Mkt Price Daily YTD Rev Rev Chg EPS EPS Chg P/E P/E Net Cap Chg Chg 0...