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Colin Bennett

Mine to expand beyond copper - Salt Lake Tribune - 0 views

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rio tinto trends

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  • Colin Bennett on 12 Jun 08
     
    Besides copper, the Bingham Canyon Mine is about to become a major supplier of molybdenum and rhenium. Rio Tinto, parent company of mine operator Kennecott Utah Copper, announced Wednesday that it will invest $270 million into a molybdenum autoclave process (MAP) facility.
Colin Bennett

China struggling to meet energy, pollution goals | Environment | Reuters - 0 views

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china trends

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  • Colin Bennett on 02 Jul 08
     
    The country will shut down small coal-fired power generators producing 13 gigawatts this year and require at least 80 percent of buildings under construction to meet energy-saving standards for the construction process by the end of 2008, the report said.
Colin Bennett

A method to self-assemble metals into complex nanostructures - 0 views

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trends

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  • Colin Bennett on 30 Jun 08
     
    Applications include making more efficient and cheaper catalysts for fuel cells and industrial processes and creating microstructured surfaces to make new types of conductors that would carry more information across microchips than conventional wires do.
Wade Ren

The end of Bretton Woods 2? - 0 views

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2008-crisis economics

shared by Wade Ren on 29 Oct 08 - Cached
  • The Bretton Woods 2 system – where China and then the oil-exporters provided (subsidized) financing to the US to sustain their exports – will come close to ending, at least temporarily. If the US and Europe are not importing much, the rest of the world won’t be exporting much.
  • And rather than ending with a whimper, Bretton Woods 2 may end with a bang. In some sense Bretton Woods 2 has been on life support for a while now. China’s recent export growth has depended far more on Europe than on the US. US demand for non-oil imports peaked in 2006. One irony of the past year is that the US was borrowing far more from China that it was buying from China. Campaign rhetoric that the US was paying for Saudi oil with funds borrowed from China isn’t far off – though it leaves out the fact that the US also borrows from Saudi Arabia to pay for Venezuelan, Mexican and Nigerian oil.
  • If Bretton Woods 2 ends in 2009 – if US demand for imports falls sharply in the last part of 2008 and early 2009, bringing the US trade deficit down – it won’t have ended in the way Nouriel and I outlined back in late 2004 and early 2005. We postulated that foreign demand for US debt would dry up – pushing up US Treasury rates and delivering a nasty shock to a housing-centric economy. As Brad DeLong notes, it didn’t quite play out that way. The US and European banking system collapsed before the balance of financial terror collapsed. Dr. DeLong writes: All of us from Lawrence Summers to John Taylor were expecting a very different financial crisis. We were expecting the ‘Balance of Financial Terror’ between Asia and America to collapse and produce chaos. We are not having that financial crisis. Instead we are having a very different financial crisis. Catastrophic failures of risk management throughout the entire banking sector caused a relatively minor collapse in housing prices to freeze up global finance to a degree that has not been seen since the Great Depression. The end result of this crisis though could be rather similar: a sharp contraction in credit, a fall in US economic activity, a fall in US imports and a fall in the amount of foreign financing the US needs.* The US government is (possibly) trying to offset the fall in private demand by borrowing more and spending more — but as of now there is realistic risk that the fall in private activity will trump the fiscal stimulus.
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  • Or, to put it more succinctly, Bretton Woods 2, as it evolved, hinged both on the willingness of foreign central banks to take the currency risk associated with lending to the US at low rates in dollars despite the United States large current account deficit AND the willingness of private financial intermediaries to take the credit risk associated with lending at low rates to highly-indebted US households.
  • But now US financial institutions are neither willing nor able to take on the risk of lending even more to US households. For a while the US government was able to ramp up its lending to households (notably through the Agencies) and in the process effectively take over the function previously performed by the private financial system (over the last four quarters, the flow of funds data indicates that the Agencies provided around $800 billion of net credit to US households). But now the US government is struggling to keep the financial system from collapsing. It doesn’t seem like it will able to avoid a sharp fall in the overall availability of credit.
  • It is now clear how the financial sector kept profits up: it took on more risk, as it shifted from borrowing short to buy safe long-term assets (Treasuries and Agencies) to borrowing short to buy risky long-term assets. Leverage in the system also increased (and for some broker dealers that seems to be an understatement), as more and more financial institutions believed that the US had entered into an era of little macroeconomic or financial volatility. The net result seems to have been a truly explosive concentration of risk in the hands of a core set of financial intermediaries in the US and Europe. Securitization – it seems – actually didn’t disperse risk into the hands of institutions able to handle it.
  • I hope that the process of adjustment now underway isn’t as sharp as I fear. The US economy gradually can shift from producing MBS for sale to US investors flush with cash from the sale of safe securities to China and Saudi Arabia to producing goods and services for export – but it cannot shift from churning out complex debt securities to producing goods and services overnight. Indeed, in a slowing US and global economy, improvements in the US deficit will likely come from faster falls in US imports than in US exports – not from ongoing growth in US exports.
  • But right now it looks like there is a real risk that the adjustment won’t be gradual. And it certainly looks like the flow of Chinese (and Gulf) savings to US households over the past few years has produced one of the largest misallocations of global capital in recent history.
  • US taxpayers are going to be hit with a large tab for the credit risk taken on by undercapitalized financial intermediaries. Chinese taxpayers may get hit with a similar tab for the losses their central bank incurred by overpaying for US and European assets as part of its policy of holding its exchange rate down. The TARP is around 5% of US GDP. There are plausible estimates that China’s currency losses will prove to be of comparable magnitude. Charles Dumas puts the cost at above 5% of GDP: “Charles Dumas of Lombard Street Research estimates that China makes 1-2 per cent on its (largely) dollar reserves. It then loses up to 10 per cent on the exchange rate and suffers a Chinese inflation rate of 6 per cent for a total real return in renminbi of about minus 15 per cent. That is a loss of $270bn a year, or a stunning 7-8 per cent of gross domestic product.”
  • Jboss — if some of the Chinese inflow could be redirected into investment in alternative energy, that would indeed be a win/ win. Some infrastructure bank style ideas have promise in my view — basically, the flow that used to go to freddie/ fannie could go to wind farms and the like. I would rather see more adjustment in china (i.e. more investment in Chinese infrastructure) but during the transition, if there is one, to a lower Chinese surplus, redirecting chinese financing toward new energy tech would be offer real benefits.
  • China likes 3rd generation nuclear power. Safe, lower cost than NG or coal, very much lower cost than coal with carbon sequestering, and zero carbon footprint. Wind is about 4X more expensive than our electric costs now. That’s in an area with consistent wind. Solar is worse. I don’t know if we can sucker them into investing in our technical fairy tales. Here’s a easy primer on 3rd gen nukes. http://nuclearinfo.net/Nuclearpower/WebHomeCostOfNuclearPower
    • Wade Ren
      Wade Ren on 29 Oct 08
       
      is this true?
  • btw, solar thermal installations are so easy & affordable to retrofit onto existing structures, it’s amazing that there aren’t more of them here…until you realize that they work to decentralize energy. cedric — china is already doing it in china. they are way ahead of the curve over there. my partner brought back some photos of shanghai — rows of middle class homes each with a small solar panel on top. and that’s just the tip of the iceberg — an architect friend just came back from beijing and wants to move to china (he’s into designing self-powering structures and is incredibly frustrated by the bureaucracy and cost-prohibitive measures in the US).
  • I went to engineering school right after the Arab Oil Embargo, and alternative energy was a hot topic then. All the same stuff you hear of nowadays. They even offered entire courses on it , which I took. Then my first mini career was in the power plant biz, before Volker killed it with interest rates and the Saudies killed any interest in alt. energy with their big oil field discovery. For the last 5 years I’ve been researching what’s changed, and it is frighteningly little. Solar cells are still expensive and only have a 15% conversion efficiency. They developed the new cost reduced film technology, but that knocks down efficiency to 7%. Wind power works where there is wind constantly. Generators are mature technology and are already 90 some percent efficient. Geothermal, tidal, ect. work where they are available. Looks like coal gasification and synfuel is out because it makes too much CO2. Good news is 3rd gen nuclear is way better than 1st gen plants. Hybrid cars are good, and battery technology is finally getting barely good enough for all electric cars to be practical.
  • According to news report today, Japan’s trade surplus is less than 1 billion $ in September 08, a whopping 94% decrease compared to September 07. Does it imply that going forward Japan can not buy as much treasury as before?
Colin Bennett

Silver-Zinc Rechargeable Battery to be Unveiled Today at Batteries 2008 Conference | Ba... - 0 views

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battery copper nanotechnology trends

shared by Colin Bennett on 08 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Colin Bennett on 08 Oct 08
     
    Silver-zinc battery chemistry is currently poised to move into the commercial marketplace for use in consumer electronics. This new silver-zinc battery chemistry uses the latest in advanced polymers, nano-technology, power electronics and processing methods to create a battery that surpasses other rechargeable batteries for notebook computers, mobile phone and consumer electronics applications.
Colin Bennett

Wind power: Europe wants to pick your brains - 0 views

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wind

shared by Colin Bennett on 29 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Colin Bennett on 29 Apr 08
     
    The European Commission is currently in the process of dreaming up an offshore wind power action plan and it's put a shout out for anyone with an opinion to come forward.
Glycon Garcia

Focus on European Smart Grids - 0 views

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""''smart""

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  • Glycon Garcia on 09 Apr 08
     
    Focus on European Smart Grids by Michael Setters, Smart Electric News London, UK [RenewableEnergyWorld.com] A host of initiatives across Europe has led to an explosion in interest into how -- and where -- smart grids will be implemented and deployed. According to Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio, a leading voice in the Electricity industry, "It is clear that dramatic change is coming in the future for the electric utility industry...the way energy is generated, delivered and consumed [is] substantially changing the whole business model. This change is coming to a piece of the industry that hasn't been known for radical change over its 120 plus year history... Implementation of the Smart Grid will require a complete rethinking of the utility business model and business processes."
Colin Bennett

Study says nuclear power isn't as "safe and clean" as Bush claims | Cleantech.com - 0 views

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  • Nuclear energy doesn’t live up to its billing as the “emission-free panacea,” says a study from Pennsylvania’s Clarion University.
  • Colin Bennett on 06 Mar 08
     
    According to a study from Clarion University, Pennsylvania, USA each step in the current US process of building and running a nuclear plant, from mining the uranium ores to disposing of the wastes, contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Indeed, the article states that for nuclear power to be a feasible alternative energy source the entire process would need to be more efficient. This study gives a view on nuclear power which includes long standing ideals. The paper seems to offer an intermediate review on issues around the subject of nuclear, in the wider energy debate.
Colin Bennett

BHP warns of falling copper output - 0 views

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trends copper mining BHP

shared by Colin Bennett on 23 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Colin Bennett on 23 Apr 09
     
    BHP Billiton has warned that copper production at its majority-owned Escondida mine in Chile will fall by 30 per cent in the year ending June due to declining ore grades and electrical faults at the processing mill.
Panos Kotseras

China - Tongling Nonferrous invests in its copper semis business - 0 views

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China Tongling copper semis

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  • Panos Kotseras on 30 Apr 09
     
    Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd. has announced that it will invest more than 220 million yuan in Tongling Nonferrous Stock Copper Semis Co., Ltd. As a result, the registered capital of its 100% owned subsidiary will rise from 60 million yuan to 280 million yuan. The subsidiary will be renamed to Tongling Nonferrous Tongguan Electronics Co., Ltd. It will engage in "the processing of copper semis such as enamelled wires, cables, phosphorus copper balls and other copper wire".
Panos Kotseras

China - Copper demand may grow strongly in Q4 - 0 views

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China copper demand

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  • Panos Kotseras on 05 Jun 09
     
    According to a statement made by JP Morgan Securities, copper demand in China may experience strong growth in Q4. This argument is based on the fact that the large amount of accumulated copper inventories in China will be processed. As a result, copper stockpiles will run down. The forecast projected an annual growth in Chinese copper demand of 7-8% for 2009, backed by robust demand in power infrastructure. Chinese copper imports in April reached 400,000t, an increase of 7% compared with March.
Colin Bennett

Doe Run halts production at La Oroya copper/lead/zinc smelter - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 03 Jun 09
     
    Doe Run Peru, the country's fourth largest metals exporter, said on Tuesday it will halt all operations at its sprawling La Oroya smelter on Wednesday because financial and environmental setbacks have prevented it from buying concentrates. The plant, hobbled by financial woes since March, processes lead, zinc and copper. Its work permits could be canceled if it does not meet an October deadline for an environmental cleanup.
Colin Bennett

Confronting Slow Rate of Auto Technology Change - 0 views

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Trends copper automotive

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  • Colin Bennett on 29 May 09
     
    But the new technologies-which could help consumers cope with these prices-are unlikely to arrive in large numbers in time for the next oil spike. According to the authors of "The Impact of Plug-in Hybrids on U.S. Oil Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions," a chapter in the new book Plug-in Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington, published by the Brookings Institution, cars are durable goods that last well over a decade. "The transformation of the light-vehicle fleet to new internal combustion technologies or to hybrid and plug-in hybrid technologies will take decades from the time such vehicles are widely available at competitive prices," according to the authors, Alan Madian, Lisa Walsh and Kim Simpkins, researchers at consulting firm LECG. They believe it could take another decade from now until the new technologies compete on a price basis, and begin the process of replacing current fleets.
Colin Bennett

Jiangxi Copper launches Dexing mine expansion project - China Market Intelligence Center - 0 views

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trends copper jiangxi

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  • Colin Bennett on 19 Jun 09
     
    Jiangxi Copper Co Ltd has started an expansion project at its Dexing copper mine to increase its annual processing capacity to 130,000 tons from the current 100,000 tons, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Colin Bennett

Novellus to Locate Researchers and Cutting-Edge Tools at CNSE's Albany NanoTech - 0 views

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trends copper nanotechnology

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  • Colin Bennett on 13 Jul 09
     
    A team of Novellus researchers will be located with CNSE staff at Albany NanoTech, where they'll conduct leading-edge research into advanced nanofabrication processes, including copper fill for interconnects, copper through-silicon via fill for three-dimensional packaging applications, tungsten deposition for transistor contacts, and thin dielectric film deposition.
Panos Kotseras

China - Deep processing copper project by Jian Xinwang Copper - 0 views

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Jian Xinwang Copper

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  • Panos Kotseras on 30 Dec 09
     
    The Committee of Industry and Information Technology of Jiangxi Province announced that Jian Xinwang Copper started a deep processing copper project in Jian City, Jiangxi Province. The investment of the project amounts to 120 million yuan and is expected to be commissioned in June 2010. Annual capacity will be 30,000 tonnes of copper products per annum.
Colin Bennett

Carbon-free copper smelting technology - 0 views

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trends copper china carbon

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  • Colin Bennett on 05 Nov 09
     
    "Recently, carbon-free copper smelting technology, a technology with full independent intellectual property rights, has passed expert examination organized by China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA) in Dongying, Shandong province. It is the first time zero-carbon emissions in the copper melting process has been realized and also opens a new gate for low-carbon development of China's nonferrous metals industry."
James Wright

India - Luvata set to expand into the emerging India refrigeration market - 0 views

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India Luvata coils heat refrigeration

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  • James Wright on 27 Jun 11
     
    London-headquartered Luvata Group, a major semis fabricator, announced its intention to establish a new production facility in India as it endeavours to capture around 10% of this emerging market by 2015. The company anticipates that growth in the domestic heat transfer market will surge by 25% per annum, driven by demand from the processed-food, supermarket retail, horticultural crops and pharmaceutical sectors. Development of an effective refrigeration supply chain is one of the targets of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries and Luvata has highlighted opportunities in reducing the waste produced by India's large fruit and vegetable market.
Colin Bennett

Miniaturization - LEONI special conductors - 2 views

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trends copper miniaturization

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  • For all these applications, the same challenges requiring solutions arise. To begin with, rising raw material prices have been triggering a strong trend towards cutting down the material input as far as possible throughout the entire manufacturing process. In addition, with space being a restriction, the allowable amount and volume of conductors to be incorporated in any of the above devices is limited. At the same time, the processes, which are controlled by means of electric signals, are growing more and more diverse so that an increasing number of functions has to be taken care of by each conductor. In particular when it comes to building automobiles, aircraft or aerospace vehicles, exceptional weight efficiency is requested nowadays in order to minimize fuel consumption. The flexibility of a strand constitutes another property that can only be accomplished by increasing the number of single wires used. Just take the following example: A strand composed of 19 wires with a diameter of 0.20 mm each will end up having the same cross-section (0.6 mm²) as another strand made up of 850 wires with a diameter of 0.03 mm each, with the flexibility of the latter being significantly higher.
Colin Bennett

Wire and electronics minituarization - 0 views

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trends copper

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  • With the trend to more and more technology in an increasingly smaller space, the miniaturization of components is steadily increasing. To begin with, rising raw material prices have been triggering a strong trend towards cutting down the material input as far as possible throughout the entire manufacturing process. In addition, with space being a restriction, the allowable amount and volume of conductors to be incorporated in any of the above devices is limited.
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