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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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Daimler to take 12% stake in BAIC Motor

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It also gives us the opportunity to be part of the growth of one of its major domestic participants. Daimler in China is based in Beijing and includes Mercedes-Benz (China) Ltd, Mercedes-Benz Auto Finance Ltd, Daimler Northeast Asia Parts Trading & Services Co., as well as sales companies in Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan.

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Daimler takes 12% stake in Chinese parter BAIC Motor; first non-Chinese automotive company to acquire an interest in a Chinese OEM

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(MBLC); Daimler Northeast Asia Parts Trading & Services Co. BDNT); as well as sales companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Local production of Mercedes-Benz cars began with the predecessor series of the E-Class in the BBAC joint venture in 2006; the C-Class series followed in 2008. BBAC), Beijing Foton Daimler Automotive Co.

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3M Forms Strategic Relationship with Amperex Technologies for NMC Li-Ion Cathode Materials

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The award was part of a set of five targeted at plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) research under DOE’s collaboration with the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC). Patents on the 3M composition have been issued in China, Taiwan and USA. In 2007, the US Department of Energy awarded 3M up to $1.14 Earlier post.)

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"Spirit of DC" Taking on Las Vegas EVA, Monday Eve, 24 November 2008

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SEE below for December 2008 contents from Las Vegas EVA Watts Happening -- space that was reserved for Stan & Marianne, Bill and Amanda, Bill, Lloyd, Daniel, John, Michelle, et Las Vegas EVA'rs al for webblogging plus posting pixs of the "Spirit of DC" shining & showing on the 2nd level of the Texas Station Casino parking garage.

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

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Unfortunately, Solyndra’s timing was terrible, global poly-silicon supplies caught up with rising demand, going from a high of $500 per kilogram in 2008 to a mere $35 on spot markets today. 3 ] “Research and Markets; Asia Pacific Solar Photovoltaic Market Outlook to 2015 - China and Taiwan Leading the Demand.” Resources. [

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Henn Tan, as told to the Straits Times Many of these electronics products, including the chips in them, were produced in Asia, including Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand—and Singapore—under the OEM system. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008.

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