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Savings furthest downstream will have the greatest leverage in making the upstream equipment smaller, and this saves not just energy but also capital cost.
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
Less familiar to Western analysts is Idemitsu Kosan, but it is a significant player in the Japanese petrochemical sector. It operates four major refineries and three integrated chemical complexes in the country and generated more than $60 billion in revenue in the past twelve months.
One of our favorite CEF managers is Scott Page. He’s been with Eaton Vance, one of the oldest investment management firms in the US, since 1989. He has conducted the Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust (EFT, not to be confused with ETF, an exchange-traded fund) brilliantly since inception—through rising and falling rate cycles, through rising an
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An especially profitable opportunity will involve reforming natural gas at the wellhead, where a large plant can strip out the hydrogen for shipment to wholesale markets via new or existing pipelines. Professor Robert Williams of Princeton University points out23 that the other product of the separation process, carbon dioxide, could then be reinje
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Nick Reddecliff
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