Restarting half of Japan’s nuclear reactors could save $20 billion per year

Japan can cut its power costs by 30 percent if it restarts at least half the country’s 50 nuclear reactors by 2014, a government adviser said. The savings would amount to 1.8 trillion yen ($20.3 billion), the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, a Tokyo- based research group known as IEEJ, said in report posted today …

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Robot Cars could be worth over $2 trillion per year to the US alone

[Forbes] The driverless car has broad implications for society, for the economy and for individual businesses. Just in the U.S., the car puts up for grab some $2 trillion a year in revenue and even more market cap. Driverless car technology has the very real potential to save millions from death and injury and eliminate …

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