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...desalination in Singapore, Ong adds, the water becomes so clean that minerals have to be restored for it to be consumed. In 2008, Hyflux reported net profits of $40 million, a 79% increase over the previous year, on revenues of roughly $382 million. Hyflux's stock has jumped almost twentyfold since its public listing...
...beating us. China is reportedly investing up to $660 billion over the next decade in clean energy and research. South Korea is planning to invest close to 2% of its GDP each year, or about $85 billion over five years, in clean tech. And Japan is aiming for a twentyfold expansion in installed solar by 2020. Meanwhile executives in American clean-energy companies, who visited Capitol Hill on July 28 to lobby for a stronger national renewable-energy standard, worry that we could be falling behind. "This bill does nothing to drive the installation of new renewable-energy...
...Number of personal bankruptcies in Japan in the first 11 months of 2003, a nearly twentyfold increase since...
Carl-Henric Svanberg made his name and fortune from locks. As CEO of Sweden's Assa Abloy in the 1990s, he turned a local security company into the world's biggest lockmaker - acquiring over 100 new firms and restructuring them in a way that boosted Assa Abloy's stock twentyfold. When he left earlier this year, he took with him a personal fortune of $60 million. You might expect Svanberg, now 50, to ease into early retirement. But last month he took over as president and CEO of Ericsson, the sprawling Swedish telecom-equipment maker that's all locked...
...Western Europe, in contrast with the U.S., there is generally a better realization of the tremendous changes in world economics that have been brought about by the nearly twentyfold increase in oil prices since 1972. European governments and citizens both accept the fact that the vast outflow of money to pay for staggering oil bills means that living standards cannot grow as fast as they have for the past generation. Workers cannot receive real wage increases without productivity gains, consumers cannot buy as much, and governments cannot spend money on social programs unless they have the tax revenues...