2021年3月30日 星期二

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"It's economically unrealistic for all the countries to build additional chip production capacity," says chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's biggest contract chipmaker.

Restrictions on fracking in Britain were lifted in 2012, but no onshore sites have been drilled in the past three years. Why not? http://econ.st/1G2R660


Enough to make you veep

Mitt Romney is about to discover how hard it is to choose a running-mate


23 (Bloomberg) -- CPC Corp., a Taiwan state-run oil company, bought 6 million barrels of Angolan crude for loading in April via a tender, according to two traders who participate in the market. The company bought three cargoes of Cabinda, two shipments ...


Taiwan Reduces Solar Power Feed-In Tariffs 30% for 2011 as Costs Decline


Taiwan reduced the feed-in tariffs for solar power for 2011 contracts by about 30 percent from last year’s level because of the falling cost of installing equipment that converts sunlight into energy.
State-run 國營 Taiwan Power Co. will pay NT$7.33 (25 cents) a kilowatt-hour for power generated from ground solar panels, compared with NT$11.12 for 2010, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said in a statement today. The 2011 price for roof-top solar power is as high as NT$10.32.
Solar cell prices may decline 10 percent to 15 percent this year, said Chang Ping-heng, chief executive officer of Motech Industries Inc., Taiwan’s biggest solar cell maker by market value. Global annual capacity to produce solar cells may climb to as much as 30 gigawatts in 2011, Chang said Dec. 1. The estimate exceeds 2011 global demand projection from technology researcher Isuppli by about 35 percent.
“Solar power costs may fall further,” Hwang Jung-chiou, vice minister of economic affairs, said in a press conference in Taipei today.
The new floor price is NT$2.61 for electricity generated by wind, the ministry said. The government aims to have 100 megawatts of onshore wind power capacity and 70 megawatts of photovoltaic panels installed this year, it said.
Prices Paid
Feed-in tariffs, or the prices paid to generators by Taiwan Power, the island’s monopoly grid operator, are at least NT$11.12 per kilowatt-hour for photovoltaic solar panels installed in 2010 and NT$2.38 for wind farms, the Bureau of Energy said in a statement on its website in December 2009. That compared with an average cost of NT$2.06 per kilowatt-hour for fossil fuels such as coal and oil.
Taiwan’s government set feed-in tariffs for electricity generated by solar panels and wind turbines at higher levels than for those for power from fossil fuels to spur production of renewable energy. President Ma Ying-jeou, who took office in May 2008, has pledged to cut emissions to 2000 levels by 2025. Lawmakers approved the island’s Renewable Energy Development Act in 2009.



sienna (see-EN-uh)

noun: A color derived from clay, ranging from yellowish brown (in raw form) to reddish brown (when roasted).

Etymology
From Italian terra di Siena (earth of Siena). After Siena, a city in Italy once noted for the mining of this mineral. In its roasted form, the color is known as burnt sienna.

Usage
"Once you plow through the manual, you can program all your preferred settings, meaning the oven will remember just which shade of sienna you like your toast." — Melissa Clark; Compact Cookery; The New York Times; Aug 24, 2005.


Americans Hate Gov't, Love Its Programs
Americans have a very negative view of the government yet they think Social Security and Medicare are very important and want lawmakers to keep spending to try to boost jobs.



 veep
 noun, US

A vice-president. (1949 —) .
Fortune His Makati business club constituents would be happy to nominate E.Z. for veep (1983).


onshore,
Pronunciation: /ˈɒnʃɔː/ 

Definition of onshore in English:

adjectiveadverb

1Situated or occurring on land (often used in relation to the oil and gas industry):[AS ADJECTIVE]: an onshore oilfield
1.1(Especially of the wind) from the sea towards the land:a slight onshore breeze[AS ADVERB]:  we moved onshore

verb

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(Of a company) transfer (a business operation that was moved overseas) back to the country from which it was originally relocated:the case study showed improvement in many keyareas once the company decided to onshore its call centre activity


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