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UPS Adopts Plan to Cut Its Airline Carbon Emissions An Additional 20% by 2020; Biofuels Part of the Plan

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The company’s air system includes international air hubs in Cologne, Germany; Taipei, Taiwan; Shanghai; Miami (to serve Latin America), an intra-Asia hub in the Philippines; and UPS Worldport, the Louisville, Ky., In 2008, Scope 1 and 2 emissions were 13.2 million metric tonnes in 2008 from 1.9 million metric tonnes in 2007.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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I believe that the loss of industry players Solyndra, Evergreen, and SpectraWatt opens the market for more innovative solar companies to succeed with smarter tactics and mainstream products that fit into existing manufacturing models. The United States spends almost $500 billion annually purchasing energy from other countries.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In the late 1960s Singapore had embarked on a crash program of industrialization, offering incentives to multinational companies, especially in such high-tech fields as electronics and semiconductors, to set up factories on the island. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008.

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Report: U.S. Prepping $540 Million for SK Group Semiconductor Factory in Michigan

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Like most other modern products, vehicles have become heavily reliant on semiconductor chips in recent years and the supply chain issues witnessed since 2020 have been vexing the industry. Meanwhile, the United States is concerned that any future decisions on the part of China to invade Taiwan would effectively cripple the U.S.

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