En kinesisk solskenshistoria. Thursday, October 12, 2006 By Andrew Batson in Wuxi, China, The Wall Street Journal. "When he arrived in Australia 18 years ago as a physics student, Shi Zhengrong scraped by on a meager stipend from the Chinese government t
23.5.2011: Hexicon är en spektakulär, sexhörnad flytande energiplattform som fullt utbyggd med både vågkraftverk och vindkraftverk kan få en effekt på över 60 MW. Tillsammans med åtta andra svenska projekt inom bioenergi, vindkraft och Smarta Nät har Hexicon Baltic gått vidare till en noggrannare granskning hos Europeiska Investeringsbanken EIB.
Quoted by Nafeez Ahmad, Dec 2012: Indeed, Business Insider reports that far from being profitable, the shale gas industry is facing huge financial hurdles. "The economics of fracking are horrid", observes US financial journalist Wolf Richter. "Production falls off a cliff from day one and continues for a year or so until it levels out at about 10 per cent of initial production." The result is that "drilling is destroying capital at an astonishing rate, and drillers are left with a mountain of debt just when decline rates are starting to wreak their havoc. To keep the decline rates from mucking up income statements, companies had to drill more and more, with new wells making up for the declining production of old wells. Alas, the scheme hit a wall, namely reality."