Coal remains the major source of power generation in the U.S. Just over 42% of total power generated comes from coal-powered plants.With the rise of renewal energy and the use of natural gas for power production, the demand for coal is projected to decline slightly next year.However coal will continue to be the main fuel for electricity generation for many years …
The current population of U.S. is about 314 million or about 5% of the world’s total population. The 15.0$ Trillion U.S. economy is the largest in the world and accounts for nearly one-fourth of the world’s total GDP. Though the U.S. is separated from the rest of the world by oceans on two sides, an …
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Here is an interesting chart showing all the mineral resources present in the country of Kazakhstan: Click to enlarge Source: The attractiveness of the Kazakhstan Market, BNP Pribas In a post last year I noted: Unlike other natural resources-based economies, Kazakhstan is unique in that 99 of the 110 elements in the Periodic Table …
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The Top 10 Hotel Groups in the World for 2012 is shown below: Click to enlarge Source: Hotel Online Of the top 10, four groups have more than 600,00o rooms each. UK-based Intercontinental Hotels Group plc (IHG) tops the ranking with about 660,000 rooms. Seven of the ten hotel groups are US-based. In this year’s ranking, …