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China Where Poisoning People Is Almost Free – US-FOREX.US
HONG KONG – In addition to its cheap labor costs, China has another comparative advantage as the world’s factory: Companies often pay almost nothing to pollute China’s air, water and soil and to poison its people.Need pliant workers to handle toxic chemicals? Wages are just 2.60 a day. If the chemicals contaminate a town? Compensating… »
How Congress Could Boost Solar – US-FOREX.US
With the real estate market in ruins, a full-blown recession laying waste to corporate spending and oil at less than half its 2008 peak, the solar industry that boomed from 2004 to 2007 has recently seen its fortunes reversed. So makers of photovoltaic power cells and their suppliers had reason to cheer when the House… »
Collision Course – US-FOREX.US
Hugo Spowers is an inventor with a dream-perhaps an impossible one. After nearly a decade of mighty labor and no little expense, he has built a hydrogen-fuel cell car-albeit one so tiny it’s more like a buggy. If the money holds out, he intends to make 50 more of them and then test market the… »