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The waste production of nuclear power plants is a function both of the frequency of removing waste products and of refueling. Many reactors currently in use and with many years of operation remaining could be retrofitted to utilize thorium in place of much of or all of their uranium. This would eliminate...

Is there one single common thread that weaves its way through the abysmal performance of the American OEM automotive industry in the twenty-first century? Yes, there is. It is ego and hubris, which manifests itself in a total lack of long term planning to manage the risks of things not going as the...

Last year two people moved out of Michigan for good for every one who settled in Michigan from another state or country. General Motors lost and wrote off a combined 37 billion dollars in 2007; the largest corporate loss in American history. Michigan has the highest official unemployment rate, nearly...

Has General Motors oversold itself, and the public, on the Chevrolet Volt lithium battery plug-in hybrid program? If so, why? And, also, if so, is GM going to wake up and cancel it before the program's cost escalate further?

There has been no speculation in palladium since late 2001 when its price collapsed. What then caused the NYMEX to suddenly raise the margins on palladium futures as if a wave of speculation were about to begin?

Lee Iacooca Restructured Chrysler just as he had restructured and saved Ford before that, and it worked for him and "the New Chrysler Corporation" again.  Juergen Schremp sang (to the melody from My Fair Lady)  "Why Can't A Chrysler Be More Like A Daimler" as he restructured the company...

The last time that gold reached an all time high price, prior to last week, was in 1980 when  its price reached $847 per troy ounce. Since then inflation has taken the 1980 dollar to $2.67 in 2008 dollars; this means that for gold to sell today at the same price it reached in 1980 it would have...

It is technologically pointless to wait for the advent of safe reliable lithium technology based batteries before ramping up the production of hybrid vehicles. The main issues holding back the production of hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and battery powered, all electric, passenger and small cargo vehicles...

Is privately owned Chrysler acting out the role of champion for American OEM heavy industry in its battle with OEM automotive supplier, Plastech Engineering? Is Chrysler obligated to continue to do business, and lose money because of it,  with an insolvent supplier due to social and political...

SAFT is at it again. In 1996 the company had a lithium-ion battery production  plant in Connecticut. The batteries made there never caught the public's fancy, so around that time, 1996, SAFT sold the plant and its equipment to a Chinese battery maker and moved out of the US market back to France....