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  • China's Fast Growing Economy - Industrialization, Consumption and the Quest for Resources - a discussion on how the world's fastest growing economy impacts sectors including energy-renewable energy, water, coal-steel and healthcare. Participating companies XsunX, Inc. (OTCBB: XSNX), Vitasti, Inc. (OTCBB: VITSE), Hendrx Corp (OTCBB: HDRX), Puda Coal, Inc. (OTCBB: PUDC), and Bridgetech Holdings International, Inc. (OTC.PK: BGTH) provide insight from a first hand perspective of how smaller companies are feeling the impact and capitalizing on opportunities in China.
  • Global steel and coal production are closely linked, in China's current state of development. As the country makes changes to its regulatory control with respect to exploration, a good measure of how things are shifting, can be taken from top companies: BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), Mittal Steel (NYSE: MT), Arcelor SA and Puda Coal Inc. (OTCBB: PUDC). Perceptions on how the steel industry is expected to turn this year are offered, along with a snapshot on M&A speculation over the proposed Mittal Steel/ Arcelor deal. If the deal is approved, Mittal offers that a company with a 10% share of the world's steel market could emerge. Coal, an important ingredient in the manufacture of steel, will need to continue to meet the demand of production.
  • 'Investing in Near-Zero Emissions' - Exploring the drive towards clean coal technology, an examination of the increasing endorsement and drive towards clean coal technology as a potential means of meeting the growing demand for energy. FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ: FCEL) provides comments on the potential for their Fuel Cell technology to be used in a gasification plant.
  • Global Mining Perspectives on Opportunities in Coal, Silver, and Gold - Industry participants, Puda Coal Inc. (OTCBB:PUDC), Pan American Silver Corp. (TSX:PAA; NASDAQ:PAAS), Canarc Resource Corp. (TSX:CCM; OTCBB:CRCUF), and Endeavour Silver Corp. (TSX:EDR; OTC.PK:EDRGF) offer a look at mining opportunities in China, India and regions such as Latin America that are raising the bar for production amidst a shifting global regulatory environment, with an examination of how companies are rising to meet the demands of global corporate culture.
  • Supply and Demand Issues Fuel China's Automobile, Steel, and Coal Industries - Massive construction projects all over China are spurring the growth in the steel and coal industry as well as in the heavy duty vehicle and commercial vehicle market. Suppliers and participants Mittal Steel (NYSE: MT), PUDA Coal (OTCBB: PUDC), SORL Auto Parts (OTCBB: SAUP), BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), and China Automotive Systems (NASDAQ: CAAS) benefit from China's growing industrial economy.

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  • Beyond China's Coal Fields: Expanding Its Gas Resources - In the first half of 2006, China's total power consumption reached 1.3 trillion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 12.89 per cent over the same period a year ago. But the country only generated 1.23 trillion kilowatt-hours during the first six months of this year - a shortfall of 700 million kilowatt-hours. According to China Electricity Council Secretary-General Wang Yonggan, power shortages will continue to plague China, but he hopes they will somewhat ease.
  • Coal Liquefaction Offers Cost Savings, and Environmental and Security Benefits - Wondering what to do with that lump of coal you got in your Christmas stocking? Put it in your gas tank. Through liquefaction, or coal-to-liquids technology (CTL) - the process of converting solid coal into liquid fuels - coal can be made into liquid fuel such as gasoline or diesel and used as a substitute for petroleum products. According to a new report on CTL technology from Energy Business Reports, coal-based fuels can be used directly in today's vehicles, with no need for modification.
  • Coal-to-Liquids Technology Offers Promise of Environmental Benefits, Cost Savings, and Energy Security - Through liquefaction or coal-to-liquids technology (CTL), a process of converting solid coal into liquid fuels and/or chemicals, coal can be made into liquid fuel such as gasoline or diesel and used as a substitute for petroleum products. According to a new report on CTL technology from Energy Business Reports, coal-based fuels can be used directly in today's vehicles, with no need for modification.
  • Commercialization of Coal Gasification Technologies - Coal gasification offers one of the most versatile and cleanest ways to convert the energy content of coal into electricity, hydrogen, and other energy forms.
  • U.S. Mining Industry-Regulations, Projects and Participants - The United States produces a wide variety of commodities from gold to coal. It has a land area of over 9.6 million square kilometers, 19,924 kilometers of coastline, and a population of over 298 million people. It uses 25% of the world's energy reserves and spends more on maintaining its military might than most other country's entire GDP. It is the world's second largest producer of copper and gold, exports over $26 billion worth of minerals and material produced from minerals each year and its mining industry employs over three million people directly and indirectly.

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  • Chinese Coal And Market Thoughts, Bears of any kind (i.e., perma or otherwise) continue to find reasons why the markets will collapse any day now. At the same time, the global markets continue to defy all those extremely intellectual observers and have done so for the past four years.
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  • The Coal Utilization Research Council (CURC) is an ad-hoc industry group, composed of a diverse array of state, university and business interests. CURC members work together to promote coal utilization research and development and build collaborative, effective partnerships between the various sectors of the coal industry and government to commercialize new coal technologies.
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