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...Solar panel exports to Europe nearly doubled last year. Meanwhile, an electric car uses nearly three times as much copper as its petrol counterpart....
...A 737 Max jet left a Boeing factory missing four bolts designed to secure a door panel that blew off in mid-flight last month, according to a preliminary report by a US regulator....
...In China, electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and solar panels production surged roughly 35 per cent year on year in November, helping to prop up demand for copper despite the country’s struggling manufacturing...
...“We have ongoing studies on how to mine gold in a more sustainable way, including underground mining and phytomining”, or growing plants that accumulate heavy metals in the soil....
...Global prices for panels have fallen 50 per cent in the past year to as low as 10 cents a watt....
...Fidelity includes Royal London Short Duration Global Index Linked Fund M Inc in its “Select 50” list of recommended investments, saying: “The loans are made over short periods (under five years usually)...
...The EU last week launched two investigations into Chinese solar panel manufacturers that Brussels said have benefited from market-distorting subsidies while US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen has raised...
...Solar panel demand is off the scale — you can’t satisfy the demand. Sadly, it doesn’t drive the price in the short term,” he says....
...Steel is an important barometer of growth in China’s investment-intensive economy, which many fear is moving into oversupply in sectors ranging from cars to solar panels due to a weaker than expected recovery...
...The bolts required to hold the door panel in place were never added back....
...“It’s the dollar losing utility as an asset to store trade surpluses,” says John Hathaway, managing partner of Sprott Inc, a Canadian asset manager specialising in metals....
...Regulators have placed a cap on Boeing’s production capacity following the harrowing mid-air panel blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight in January. This in turn means delivery delays....
...Marking the deal, a blog post on the Tesla website talked up the prospect of a rooftop solar panel “that looks better and is more durable than a normal roof, that can be easily customized to fit the unique...
...Over the past decade, Apple has been expanding its use of recycled materials in its devices to reduce its consumption of such metals and minerals....
...The data on this is clear — according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2020 urban areas collectively contributed about three-quarters of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions....
...The door panel that blew out during the Alaska Airlines flight was later found in the garden of an Oregon physics teacher....
...“The demand for metals and materials is poised to surpass all prior estimates,” it said....
...The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the small font size on the lights “can make critical safety information on the instrument panel difficult to read, increasing the risk of a crash...
...Letter in response to this article: When Boeing tied hands of its door panel supplier / From William Davies, Bridport, Dorset, UK...
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...But many producers and traders are growing increasingly bullish in the medium-term, forecasting growing demand for the metal from makers of electric vehicles and solar panels....
...She also criticised Republican lawmakers Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney for participating in a congressional panel to investigate the attacks on the US Capitol on January 6 2021, saying the committee was...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on April 19 2024. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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