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The Power of Five Percent: How Dynamic Pricing Can Save $35 Billion in Electrici…: 6:33am 1 review business, energy, conservation, pricing
http://www.greenbiz.com/resources/resource/the-power-five-percent-how-dynamic...; From the page: "Rising electricity costs are once again dominating the headlines. One way to lower these costs is to avoid the construction of expensive peaking power plants. This analysis, undertaken by The Brattle Group, shows that demand response programs based on advanced metering and dynamic pricing could reduce peak load in the United States by at least 5 percent over the next few years. If such a 5 percent reduction is achieved, Brattle estimates savings of approximately $3 billion per year in electricity costs. The discounted present value of these savings would be $35 billion over the next 20 years. Web Site:www.brattle.com/News/News.asp?NewsID=363"

The New York Times & Log In: 5:07am 1 review business, water, oil, energy, living
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/business/economy/20econ.html?em; Prices for goods purchased by American businesses surged more than expected in July and have jumped by nearly 10 percent over the last year -- the sharpest increase since 1981. High costs always hurt living standards globally-now is the time to reduce costs!

The New York Times & Log In: 5:05am 1 review business, usa, energy, world, solar
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/business/15solar.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx...; The plants will cover 12.5 square miles of central California with solar panels, and in the middle of a sunny day will generate about 800 megawatts of power, roughly equal to the size of a large coal-burning power plant or a small nuclear plant. A megawatt is enough power to run a large Wal-Mart store. The power will be sold to Pacific Gas & Electric, which is under a state mandate to get 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2010. The utility said that it expected the new plants, which will use photovoltaic technology to turn sunlight directly into electricity, to be competitive with other renewable energy sources, including wind turbines and solar thermal plants, which use the sun's heat to boil water.

India, China will face problems in power production: Qatar minister - Yahoo! Ind…: 1:12am 1 review business, india, china, oil, energy
http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080820/896/twl-india-china-will-face-problems-i...; From the page: "Dubai, Aug 20 (IANS) Countries like India and China would face great problems in power production even as oil production remained adequate, according to Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister fo Energy and Industry Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Attiyah. Al Attiyah told the Al Jazeera television channel Wednesday that demand for oil would continue and the world would face energy shortage, the official Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported. Countries like India and China would face a great problem in electricity production, even though oil production by oil producing countries would remain adequate. The minister attributed the recent fall in world oil prices to speculations and said that the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) would intervene if oil supply exceeds demand in the markets. He said that there were expectations that demand would shrink and that Opec would take appropriate measures in order to maintain the balance between supply and demand. Oil prices had nearly double from around $70 a barrel in August last year to over $140 a barrel in June this year. The prices are currently hovering around $115 a barrel mark." Smacks of greed !

Transport costs could alter world trade - USATODAY.com: Aug 16, 8:59pm 2 reviews business, usa, oil, world, trade
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/manufacturing/2008-08-11-cargo-costs...; "If oil prices near $200, sending a shipping container from Shanghai to the U.S. East Coast would cost $15,000, up from $3,000 eight years ago." Let us all try to reduce costs and become more efficient globally!

UNFCCC Gives Out Nearly 25,000 Carbon Credits to Indian Lanco Industries &8212; …: Aug 16, 8:48pm 2 reviews business, india, world, cdm, unfccc
http://www.carbonoffsetsdaily.com/carbonmarketnews/unfccc-gives-out-nearly-25...; Good news for Lanco and India !

Business Opportunities Weblog | Patent Law Changes Could Hurt Small Inventors: Aug 16, 4:07am 1 review business, usa, world, patents, smallbiz
http://www.business-opportunities.biz/2008/08/15/patent-law-changes-could-hur...; The small business person needs to be protected better!

No more need for an antivirus software?: Aug 13, 9:45pm 0 review business, internet, security, world, virus
http://www.primidi.com/2008/08/12.html

Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerrys, on starting out 30 years ago, …: Aug 1, 8:47pm 1 review business, cool, world, retail, development
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/31/5; Down to earth and inspirational stuff - when will Ben and Jerry's come to India I wonder!

Solution to drug-price crisis from two MIT experts - Student Doctor Network For…: Jul 20, 12:32am 1 review business, doctors, medicine, prices, nonprofits
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=545081; From the page: "The mounting U.S. drug price crisis can be contained and eventually reversed by separating drug discovery from drug marketing and by establishing a non-profit company to oversee funding for new medicines, according to two MIT experts on the pharmaceutical industry. Stan Finkelstein, M.D., senior research scientist in MIT's Engineering Systems Division, and Peter Temin, Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics, present their research and detail their proposal in their new book, "Reasonable Rx: Solving the Drug Price Crisis," published by Financial Times Press. "