Entries from March 2010

March 16, 2010

Recent Coverage on the Question of Lithium Supply

Here’s a pretty good recent article in the New York Times on the hunt for secure supplies of lithium. For my analysis of the topic, see my post Is Lithium Better than Petroleum?

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March 8, 2010

Two Approaches to Cleaning up Dirty Ports

Can targeted economic incentives clean up an industry? Or does real change require a fundamental, government-backed restructuring? That’s the question raised by two different clean-up approaches being pursued by U.S. ports. Ports are a vital link in international trade. But they are dirty. Diesel ships, locomotives and trucks, many of them old, poorly maintained and inefficient, [...]

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