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To: TobagoJack who wrote (39492)	9/3/2008 6:37:36 AM
From: Chas.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217835

I disagree, they are part of the social fabric of the Global experience and landscape, they will become "a force to be reckoned with" eventually...so be it. How will China deter its pending "new cultural revolution" the one that will allow every peasant(the other 850 million) to have a pair of designer jeans, cool T shirt, laptop and cell phone. Curious and regards

To: TobagoJack who wrote (39492)	9/3/2008 7:18:46 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217835

To each ones according to their numbers. Less Russians, less trouble. Got less here. Got more there. Result rebalancing. We are living in an era of rebalancing and consequently there are dangers ahead. Some seeing the old set of circumstances dying out have not adapted. Surely will disappear. Why all those countries of yore do not fade away gracefully as Japan is doing? As you can see the higher consumption of say, oil, in emerging markets will be matched by less consumption in the developed countries. Developed countries will get smaller cars, newer technology, thus leaving more to be consumed by the masses now getting their first set of wheels. The market matches those two groups. This less here-more there, still sticking with the oil case, is compounded by alternatives previously not economically attractive. Solar, ethanol, bio-diesel plus the discover of new –and more costlier- sources of oil... Give a decade under the new set of circumstances and the rebalancing start sedimenting -under pressure and temperature- and that porous clay thing becomes solid marmor. Once Russia discovers that they have less and less young people attracted to the uniform life, and less and less engineers to develop the weapons, reality will set in. They will mhave a internal rebalancing to take care of... By the way all their weaponry is still being develop using old design and old guys of the Cold War era. Once they retire there are not queues of new ones coming on stream to design new gear.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (39492)	9/3/2008 7:54:25 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217835

Another play on the solar craze - DOW and GLW may be? The manufacturing process works in conjunction with developmental Dow Corning PV-6100 Encapsulant series, which provides a clear laminate to protect each solar cell in a panel and can replace commonly used ethyl vinyl acetate resin. The silicone-based material provides higher watt efficiency, longer module life, and optimum UV resistance. Equipment for the new process requires less capital and less factory space. The process and encapsulant series are being piloted by select solar partners in the new Dow Corning Solar Application Center in Freeland, Michigan and are expected to be commercially available in mid-2009. "We've made significant progress in the past year in being able to take technology from the lab to production scale," said Eric Peeters, global executive director, Dow Corning Solar Market Business Unit.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (39492)	9/3/2008 12:14:12 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217835

Tech can be flipped any time. Bye bye Microsoft Chrome carries shades of an OS in a browser's clothing and Google's latest encroachment on Redmond's turf must have a few Microsoft execs sweating. We have had a telephone conversation in 2002 when I was in Bangkok. Former participant of this thread (RIP) here was in the false belief that he could leave off patents for the next 100 years. Consensus, between us, was that tech can be flipped and today´s technology can be replaced by new/better/modified technology and your patents would lose value in a matter of couple of years. 6 years hence, the writing is on the wall for MSFT. Five reasons Chrome will take over the world news.zdnet.com