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The eco machine that can magic water out of thin air
Ed Pilkington (Guardian)
Water, Water, everywhere; nor any drop to drink. The plight of the Ancient Mariner is about to be alleviated thanks to a firm of eco-inventors from Canada who claim to have found the solution to the world’s worsening water shortages by drawing the liquid of life from an unlimited and untapped source - [...]
A Design for Cheaper Wind Power
Kevin Bullis (MIT Technology Review)
FloDesign Wind Turbine, a spin-off from the aerospace company FloDesign based in Wilbraham, MA, has developed a wind turbine that could generate electricity at half the cost of conventional turbines. The company recently raised $6 million in its first round of venture financing and has announced partnerships with wind-farm developers.
The [...]
Se intensifica la crisis financiera internacional
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (Diario Correo)
Preferiría dar buenas noticias pero, muy lamentablemente, vamos a tener que esperar para tener mejores noticias sobre la economía internacional. Solamente al mirar el Financial Times del día jueves, teníamos las siguientes noticias desalentadoras:
Las exportaciones de China cayeron 2% en noviembre. Es la primera caída en muchos años. Refleja la magnitud [...]
To the barricades
From The Economist
In naming Yehude Simon, a moderate leftist, as his new prime minister in October, President Alan García hoped to give new impetus to his unpopular government. Mr Simon duly presented an ambitious 64-page plan to protect South America’s fastest-growing economy from the credit crunch and clean up its corruption-plagued administration. Yet Mr Simon [...]
The samba beat, with missteps
From The Economist
The symbolism was clear. With the United States at the fag-end of a disastrous presidency, Brazil assembled 33 countries from across the Americas to discuss a host of issues ranging from defence to the economic slowdown. The two-day gathering, at a resort near the northeastern city of Salvador, marked the first time [...]
