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How the refinancing boom could hit banks, investors
2016-07-05 17:58:00| National Real Estate Investor
Low rates will mean short-term pain for some large mortgage servicers as well as investors in mortgage-backed securities. read more
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Mind the gap: Financing Africas energy boom
2016-07-05 10:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: A solar entrepreneur struggles to get finance, while a minister defends a superfluous LNG terminal at London`s Africa Energy Forum An engineer fixes the hinge on a portable solar power container It looks like it could carry milk or paraffin, but this plastic bottle is full of batteries. Villagers can fill it up at a solar hub in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, and take it home to power phones or lightbulbs. Lungelwa Tyali, entrepreneur behind the PowerTurtle model, has sold about 130 of...
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Where are the world's next boom markets for drinks? - research
2016-06-23 18:11:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
A number of emerging markets offer "tantalising and lucrative" growth prospects for international beverage businesses, according to a new report from just-drinks.
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Dutch prototype clean-up boom brings Pacific plastics solution a step closer
2016-06-23 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A bid to clear the Pacific of its plastic debris has moved a step closer with the launch of the biggest prototype clean-up boom yet by the Dutch environment minister at a port in The Hague. On Thursday the 100m-long barrier will be towed 20km out to sea for a year of sensor-monitored tests, before being scaled up for real-life trials off the Japanese coast at the end of next year. If all goes well, full-scale deployment of a 100km-long version will take place in the great Pacific garbage patch...
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Why the Tesla and electric car boom could be good news for the grid
2016-06-18 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Earlier this year, breathtaking numbers of pre-orders for the Tesla Model 3 not only shocked the auto industry, but also suggested that a transition of the U.S. and world auto fleet toward electric vehicles could happen faster than expected. There are still only a little more than 400,000 electric vehicles on the road in the U.S., or just 0.16 percent of all cars. But predicted growth rates could have them at more than a third of new car sales globally by 2040, according to Bloomberg New Energy...
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