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...“The market is bearish,” said Erisa Senerdem, head of biomass pricing at Argus Media....
...The UK’s Drax, which burns wood biomass pellets, has already agreed its power prices for this year, at lower prices. It is almost fully hedged on its own fuel needs for next year....
...Drax, which remains in several other ESG indices, used to burn coal for energy, and now primarily burns wood pellets, or “biomass.”...
...It now uses USB-C-compliant ports (which it calls Thunderbolt) for charging and connectivity on its MacBooks and iPads, although not on accessories such as AirPods, and is reported to have been testing iPhones...
...His mother was a Time Inc executive, and his father a Washington diplomat who worked for the US Agency for International Development....
...Joanne Etherton from environmental law firm ClientEarth, said that BlackRock’s acknowledgment of the scale of climate-related financial risks was “a thunderbolt for investors”....
...The money management industry had long been swirling with chatter of mergers and acquisitions, but the audacity of the Janus-Henderson marriage still struck like a thunderbolt....
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...Japanese corporates have long worked closely with the Tokyo government – a relationship nicknamed "Japan Inc" – to advance shared international interests....
...The government U-turn was seen to undermine the economics of Drax converting a fourth turbine to burn biomass, which analysts had valued at around 100p per share....
...Not only is the plummeting price of oil sending fuel prices tumbling, it is also flattening efforts to build and develop electric and biomass fuelled vehicles, according to the International Renewable Energy...
...The challenge should be to stop energy prices rising, and to give as many people as possible, including the 1.3bn still without access to electricity and the 2.6bn still using biomass waste for cooking,...
...More than 2.6bn people rely on “traditional biomass” – wood and animal dung – for cooking, which creates severe health problems....
...If traditional biomass is excluded the figures are 7 per cent and 14 per cent. The problem is cost....
...Immingham on the Humber is still heavily dependent on imports of coal, oil and gas but, like the Tyne, it has a stake in biomass....
...We apebots replicate freely (just add alcohol) and are powered by biomass. Robots are manufactured and devour fossil fuel. Human workers fear robots will replace them....
...Thompson Towers – or Drax power station, as it is properly known – is switching three of its six old sub-plants from coal to modish biomass. Now there is a rift in the lute. Or, correctly, the loot....
...starting with the 2012 redesign) do not incorporate an optical drive for playing and recording CDs and DVDs and the SD card slot has been moved from the side to the much less convenient rear, next to the USB, Thunderbolt...
...The museum, in Farmingdale, New York, stands on the site of the former Republic Aviation factory, which produced many important military aircraft, including the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter....
...“Industry could comply with these renewable fuel obligations without the incentive of a high RIN price to build out E85 infrastructure or produce more biomass-based diesel.”...
...“It is a thunderbolt,” said Ken Doctor, a news industry analyst with Outsell, who cautioned that the sale price the Graham family secured may have little bearing on other metropolitan newspapers’ valuations...
...Other than that, the Air has the same 720p HD Facetime camera, stereo speakers, SD card slot, two USB 3.0 ports and a Thunderbolt port....
...By the middle of 2014, the power station owner will have switched two of its coal-fired plants to biomass with a further two conversions expected before 2017, Goldman said....
...In Grimsby and Immingham, growth at the port is coming from oil for refineries, coal, car imports and exports and renewables, with biomass imported for power stations such as Drax and boats servicing offshore...
...(Financial Times) Government pledges Drax biomass support: A £225m project to convert half of Britain’s biggest coal-fired power station into a biomass plant is to receive a government guarantee as part...
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