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Japan is slated to announce a new national solar mandate that would see all new buildings and houses be built with solar installations by 2030.
Using the natural disaster in Japan as a catalyst for change, Panasonic, (NYSE: PC) one of the largest manufacturers of consumer electronics, has announced its intention to pursue a sustainable future.
Shares of Orocobre Limited (ASX: ORE.AX) (market cap US$273 million) jumped more than 9% today after the company announced that a definitive feasibility study (DFS) of the company’s Salar de Olaroz lithium-potash brine project in Argentina defined a resource base of 6.4 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent -- sufficient to sustain a mine producing 16,400 tonnes per year of battery grade lithium carbonate. The company’s website says initial commercial production at Olaroz is expected to begin in 2012.
Western equity markets are gaining ground today after yesterday’s worries about the Japanese nuclear crisis prompted a major selloff. The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s benchmark Nikkei 225 closed down 131.05 points (-1.14%) today, but the three major U.S. equity exchanges and markets in Europe are all up.
In response to the growing nuclear crisis in Japan, United States Energy Secretary Steven Chu answered questions about nuclear energy safety in the U.S. with a clear message: U.S. reactors are safe.
The nuclear fallout from the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that rocked Japan on Friday continues to escalate. After a third reactor explosion occurred early Tuesday morning at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, a fourth reactor started on fire causing more radioactive material to be released.
The New York Times has reported that a third blast has rocked the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station; this one has released radioactive materials and forced the evacuation of emergency workers.
The nuclear situation in Japan is heating up. As the death toll estimate soars to 10,000 and citizens continue to reel from a massive earthquake that rocked Japan and caused a giant tsunami, concerns are on the rise for the threat of nuclear meltdown at damaged reactors.
