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HSBC predicts low carbon energy market to triple
The world`s low-carbon energy market is likely to treble by 2020, HSBC analysts forecast on Monday, saying that rising concerns about resource scarcity would support broad consensus on the threat of climate change.
The electric vehicle market would benefit most, growing more than 20 times by 2020 to reach US$473 billion, said HSBC`s "Sizing the climate economy" report.
Climate policy has faced headwinds including faltering U.N. climate talks to agree a post-2012 successor to the Kyoto Protocol and repeated Senate setbacks to a U.S. climate bill.
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Solar cell, heal thyself
Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now some MIT scientists have succeeded in mimicking a key aspect of that process.
One of the problems with harvesting sunlight is that the sun`s rays can be highly destructive to many materials. Sunlight leads to a gradual degradation of many systems developed to harness it.
But plants have adopted an interesting strategy to address this issue: They constantly break down their light-capturing ... |
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