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From the monthly archives:
December 2008
- It appears that guilt has finally begun to scratch the skin of oil giant Exxon-Mobil, as some Texas officials just convinced them to put forth a few pennies of their fortune into a new green effort.
- They’ll be devoting $170 million to a new carbon capturing program. Just to put things into perspective, analysts expect Exxon’s 2008 profits to near $46 Billion. So, while money of course takes presidence, Exxon has graciously decided to commit .3% of their revenue to preserving the environment. Applauds……you guys get to keep the jets.
- $70 million will go towards a 50% increase in carbon capturing at their La Barge, Wyoming natural gas plant. The plant currently captures 4 million tons of emissions per year, while the investment promises a bump to 6.
- The remaining $100 million will go towards the testing of a technology hoping to strip carbon completely from natural gas by 2010.
- Although this is no where near the impact Exxon could potential have if they wanted to, it’s an effort, which by itself is notable. Hopefully there’s more green efforts to come from Exxon, I kinda doubt it though.
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- Glassdoor, a site that surveys employees about workplace conditions has issued lists of the 50 best and worst companies of 2009 as rated by the 11,000 employees in its database. While that number is relatively small, the results seem about as accurate as Fortune’s annual 100 Best Companies To Work For issue. General Mills took the top spot overall, and tech companies were not surprisingly mixed in both the good and the bad lists. Google got into the top 10 but eBay and IAC rounded out the bottom 50. I wonder if seriously struggling stock price has anything to do with those working conditions? Thanks to TechCrunch for bolding the tech companies down the list.
Top 20 Best Places To Work 2009
1. General Mills
2. Bain & Company
3. Netflix
4. Adobe
5. Northwestern Mutual
6. Whole Foods
7. Google
8. SAP
9. Continental Airlines
10. NetApp
11. Intuit
12. McKinsey & Company
13. FactSet
14. Boston Consulting
15. Procter & Gamble
16. Caterpillar
17. Genentech
18. CareerBuilder
19. Apple
20. Juniper Networks
5 Worst Places To Work 2009
1. DHL Express (USA)
2. United Airlines
3. Reynolds and Reynolds
4. Farmers Group
5. Gibson Guitar
Other Notable Bottom 50
6. RadioShack
14. Qimonda
15. NCR
27. EDS
29. AT&T Mobility
31. OfficeMax
33. Level 3 Communications
34. Motorola
37. Blockbuster
38. Alcatel-Lucent
43. IAC
44. Cadence Design
46. Circuit City
47. eBay
49. AT&T
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- I didn’t think a recession would set us back to medieval times. Does that lady have the double dog model?
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- Argon National Lab just teamed up with 14 different companies to create the National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Battery Cell Manufacture. The alliance was created with a goal of perfecting the mass production of lithium-ion vehicle batteries.
- The alliance expects to bring in between $1 and $2 billion in US government assistance over the next five years.
- The fourteen companies included in the effort are; Johnson Controls-Saft Advanced Power Solutions, 3M Co, ActaCell, All Cell Technologies, Altair Nanotechnologies Inc, Eagle Picher Industries Inc, EnerSys, Envia Systems, FMC Corp, MicroSun Technologies, Mobius Power, SiLyte, Superior Graphite, and Townsend Advanced Energy.
- Basically the whole reason behind this is we’re 100% going to lose to China, Japan, and South Korea if we don’t do anything about it right now. Asia currently dominates lithium-ion battery R&D and production.
- In other related news, EEStor was just awarded a patent for their lithium-ion battery technology. The stats (although patents can be issued whether the technology works or not) are quite impressive promising to deliver ten times the energy of a lead-acid battery at half the price and a tenth of the weight. EEStor says the batteries will not only last 300 miles, but they will re-charge in 5 minutes. Sounds exciting, I’ll believe it when I see it.
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