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...I interviewed Lauren Salz, chief executive of Sealed, an energy efficiency business that works with homeowners and contractors to fund insulation and heat pumps....
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...Traders are also relatively sanguine because Opec+ producers, which have been implementing voluntary cuts since 2022, will be ready to pump more crude in the event of an escalation that causes prices to...
...So too the way a fuel pump flings back towards its source if you try to take it for too long a walk....
...Power Points Tianqi Lithium’s $4bn bet on Chile is at risk of backfiring as the government works to take back control of the South American country’s vast salt flats....
...You’ll need to pump up the height of your standing desk by an extra 12cm to allow for the step up, but thereafter it does its job quietly and reliably....
...It works not because of superior algorithms or supply chains but because companies can mobilise millions of workers on low pay and long hours....
...Taylor now works for Octopus as a heat pump engineer, installing the energy efficient devices needed in homes across the UK....
...Even so, not everyone is convinced Beijing will be able to pump the market up indefinitely, without addressing the country’s underlying economic problems....
...Adair Turner, chair of the international Energy Transitions Commission, is quoted as saying this of his heat pump: “It works a treat” and “the temperature might be a bit less than you might want in a really...
...“But only if we do the hard work of making change happen,” he said in a post on X....
...Gewessler said the transition would not work without the right incentives....
...In India — a global hub for back-office services — more than 5mn people work in IT and business process outsourcing, according to industry group Nasscom....
...“They work longer hours . . . they are determined to actually speed up the process of bringing this new technology into reality,” he said....
...When the university ruled that her masters students must submit their dissertations in Chinese — after they had been completed in their native Uyghur — she paid for the work to be translated....
...The country still has much work ahead to fulfil its immense economic potential....
...The law would work by imposing civil penalties on app stores such as Apple’s App Store and Google Play if they distribute or update TikTok....
...The Japanese steelmaker has said it will pump investment into US Steel and update its technology....
...In 2023, Goldman finished eighth in the rankings of deal advisory work involving Japanese companies. Mochida did not respond to requests for comment....
...TSMC notes that its Arizona plant will work with Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and AMD — four of its largest customers. Intel recently announced a deal to manufacture AI processors for Microsoft....
...At a meeting in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov reinforced calls for their two countries to work more closely together against “hegemonism”,...
...“Ueda will have his work cut out for him at the press conference [on Friday afternoon] to avoid further yen decline,” said Benjamin Shatil, senior Japan economist at JPMorgan....
...Campbell appeared to concede that Tokyo had more work to do, saying the US had been urging it to take measures....
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