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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 30.517.084 von hbg55 am 06.07.07 09:48:13

Naja, das war ein kleiner Stossseufzer...ich hätte statt Conergy gern Solartron in dem Artikel gelesen. Der Chairman von Solartron war oder ist übrigens auch Chairman des Bonanza Golf and Country Clubs, mit denen auch schon Geschäfte getätigt wurden.

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 30.515.578 von cmeise am 06.07.07 07:42:03

.......von VERPENNEN würde ich bei SOLAR nicht
sprechen wollen und auch die inv. in THAI werden
nach der pause wach.

mit schöner dynamik gehts gleich rauf auf THB 3,52
.....bei vol. von über 13 mio. ST.

[cmeise]

Zur Mittagszeit SET neutral, SOLAR gut 2% im plus, AKR heute mit sehr hohen Umsätzen gut 6% im plus - aber das wegen eines Grossauftrags im Transformatorengschäft.

Heute in der BangkokPost ein Artikel zum Tourismussektor - zum ersten mal dass ich hier einen so direkten Link zu den erneuerbaren Energien lese. Hervorgehoben wird SunTechnics, hoffentlich kein Zeichen dafür, dass Solartron diese Story verpennt... Vielleicht liegt es aber nur daran, dass der Artikel von einem (deutschen?) Redakteur der dpa stammt? Man wird sehen...

Fun, Sun and carbon neutral
By Peter Janssen
Bangkok (dpa)
Some tourist centres believe visitors will pay up to 10 per cent more for accommodation and lodgings - if they really think the resort is doing the right thing.
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Where do you go nowadays if you're a millionaire looking for an island getaway but you don't want your vacation dampened by global warming guilt?
You might try the Six Senses Resorts & Spas, a Bangkok-based luxury hotel chain with properties in the Maldives, Thailand and Vietnam, that has started to specialise in carbon-cutting getaways for the rich and famous.
Last month the Six Senses group announced that it would make its flagship property in the Maldives - the Soneva Fushi - into a carbon-neutral resort by the year 2008 and go completely carbon free by 2010.
To reach their carbon-neutral goal, for starters, all visitors to Soneva Fushi are now required to pay a carbon tax for their flight (about 120 dollars on a round-trip flight from Frankfurt) which goes into the Six Senses Carbon Offset Fund.
The fund will be spent on renewable energy projects for villages in Sri Lanka and India, thus, offsetting among the poor the carbon emissions caused by jets transporting the rich to the Maldives.
For it's own part, Six Senses has invested in redesigning the 65 "residents" at Soneva Fushi by adding more ventilation, better insulation, shifting to coconut-based bio-fuel for the resort's boat fleet and to battery-powered carts and motorbikes to achieve a 50 per cent reduction in greenhouse gases by next year.
"In 2010 we aim to be carbon free which means we will not generate any carbons on the island where Soneva Fushi is," said Raymond Hall, Bangkok-based chief marketing officer for Six Senses Resorts & Spas.
To reach that ambitious goal, Soneva Fushi, situated on Kunfunadhoo Island near the Maldives North Baa Atoll, will need to switch from diesel-generated electricity to solar, wind and a deep water cooling system.
"We can bring water from 300 metres off the edge of the atoll, where it is very cold down in the ocean 100 metres, and use it as an alternative cooling system," said Hall.
Similar global-cooling and environment-friendly efforts are underway at Six Senses' other nine resorts properties in Asia.
The strategy is starting to pay off in terms of recognition. For instance, Six Senses' Evason Phuket was one of three resorts in Asia to win the Kuala Lumpur-based conservation group Wild Asia's Responsible Tourism Award last year.
Six Senses, founded by Indian businessman Sonu Shivadasani and his wife Eva (hence its brand names Soneva and Evason combining the couple's first names), is looking for renewable energy solutions at all its properties.
For instance, at its Soneva Kiri resort on Koh Kood, a island in the Gulf of Thailand, Six Senses uses many of the energy-saving innovations used in the Maldives, with some modifications.
Although the Soneva Kiri will not be carbon-neutral upon its opening scheduled for June 2008, it is being built to be highly energy efficient and will offer at least one eco-suite that is completely carbon-free using a passive cooling system utilising the island's underground water, said Louis Thompson, Soneva Kiri's deputy project director.
Of course, energy innovations make good economic sense on Koh Kood, which is off Thailand's national electricity grid. The island, Thailand's fourth largest, is 30 kilometres away from the mainland.
Such island getaways are offering a good business opportunity to renewable energy specialists.
For instance, Germany's SunTechnics Energy Systems Company - part of the Conergy AG Group in Germany, opened an office in Bangkok on June 5 to offer alternative energy solutions to Thailand's bio-fuel and tourism markets.
"In Thailand our strategy is first to focus on the bio-market and secondly on key accounts for tourism," said Daniel Rosa, SunTechnics business development manager for Asia-Pacific.
SunTechnics has found that the tourism sector may be ahead of the public sector in Thailand, in recognising that renewable energy is a crucial part of marketing a destination.
"International hotel chains are recognising that by implementing green solutions they are meeting their clients demands to lessen the impact on the environment that travel entails," said Rosa.
Of course, only a certain clientele can afford to be environmentally correct, and even millionaires set limits on the carbon-tax they are willing to pay.
"I have to say that this is not for everybody," said Hall. "We don't like to talk about our guests but we have quite a few who have the ability to drop quite a lot of money."
Even so, Hall acknowledged, there are limits to the guilt trip.
"They will pay up to 10 per cent more for accommodation and lodgings if they really think the company is doing the right thing," he concluded.
BangkokPost, 6.7.2007

[hbg55]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 30.482.766 von cmeise am 04.07.07 12:19:06

.........ist und bleibt weiterhin ein
SCHNÄPPCHEN !!!

[cmeise]

Keine News, aber insgesamt positives Umfeld. Solartron heute wieder knapp 5% im plus - bei 3,44 mit wieder über 20 Mio Umsatz. Damit ist der Kurs pari bei 0,08€. In D gibt es etwas mehr Umsätze in der letzten Zeit, aber häufig mit einem Abschlag bis zu 5%.

[hbg55]

auch mit beginn des neuen Q. setzt sich
die aufwärts- bewegung fort.

bei vol. von über 15 mio. St. sahen wir
heute SK von THB 3,32

[cmeise]

Auf der HP sind einige kleinere News/Ereignisse eingestellt. Siehe unter "Solar Activities, Solartron News". Die letzte vom 25.6 - leider nur in Thai...
http://www.solartron.co.th/Activities.php?id_news=2

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Das Konzept, mit incentives ökologische Projekte zu fördern, greift langsam um sich:

Hug a tree and earn a cheap loan
Julia Roberts spent US$20 million (Bt692 million) to construct a solar-powered house to save energy, while former US vice president Al Gore managed to make once-boring environmental protection an interesting issue to talk about.
Now it's time for the Bank for Agriculture and Cooperatives (BAAC) to do something to promote the environment, especially since most of its customers' produce will be adversely affected by global warming.
In line with the concern over climate change, the BAAC will provide special incentives for borrowers who promise to grow trees as part of a campaign to promote green areas.
It is part of the BAAC's plan to cover 300,000 rai with trees within three years, paving the way for reforestation in exchange for interest-rate cuts.
The BAAC will collaborate with the forest and land departments as well as its customers to plant 50,000 rai of trees this year. Tree plantations will expand to 100,000 rai for 2008 and 150,000 rai for 2009, president Thirapong Tangthirasunan said yesterday.
The BAAC will spend about Bt10 million on a project designed to lessen deforestation by the poor who occupy public land or conservation areas.
In short, if the BAAC loan recipients - most of them are farmers - want to enjoy lower interest rates, they will have to do a good deed by growing trees to save the environment.
About 340,000 farmers have invaded conservation sites covering an area of 5.7 million rai. They cultivate cash crops, which are sensitive to volatility in market prices. Planting some trees on their farms would cushion market forces.
Indigenous species have been selected for the project. Farmers can make use of the planted trees to encourage them to participate in the project.
The bank also plans to incorporate tree plantations in its lending practices. The bank may offer rate cuts of, for example, 25 basis points annually for trees planted by farmers. The bank may set up a special fund to support the plantation project.
Now, the farmers may not have to wait desperately for the Bank of Thailand's signal for possible rate cuts. Want the rate cuts? Just grow some more trees.
The Nation, 22.7.2007

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GLOBAL WARMING
Bangkok will be underwater, experts predict
Models of rising sea levels suggest planners, residents need to prepare
Fed up with seasonal floods on Bangkok streets? Better enjoy the fact that the inundation only lasts for a few months instead of all year round, as scientists are now predicting.
Bangkok is on average just 40 centimetres higher than the mean sea level. With the seas of the Andaman and the Gulf of Thailand continuing to rise slowly every year, the lower part of Thailand's capital could well stay under water permanently.
"People in neighbourhoods along the banks of the Chao Phya River may have to get used to wading through water on their streets all the time," warns Bhichit Rattakul, director of the Asian Disaster Prepared-ness Centre.
"What we need is technology to help us better predict the impact of global warming. We have to get people prepared for the increasingly uncertain future."
Bhichit spoke on the issue last week at a forum organised by the Society of Environment Journalists.
Recent simulation models developed by foreign experts show almost 55 per cent of Bangkok will be flooded if mean sea levels rise by 50 centimetres and 72 per cent if they rise 100 centimetres.
Asia is forecast to have the greatest number of people affected by rising sea levels, especially those populations living in threatened coastal areas such as China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand.
Some cities such as Bangkok are more vulnerable due to subsidence from massive pumping of underground water.
Bhichit, the former governor of Bangkok, admired his successor Apirak Kosayodhin's campaign for city residents to plant trees and turn off lights to reduce carbon emissions. But he said the effort will do little to reduce the impact of global warming because too much carbon is already in the atmosphere.
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's director of environment, Nikom Waiya-ratpanich, said the city would never be ready to adapt to climate change as long as Thai urban planners do not consider it a factor in their planning.
"There are only three factors in these planners' minds: land utilisation, expansion of road networks and recreation areas as required by law. Environment and global warming have yet to enter their minds," Nikom lamented.
While international politicians, scientists and engineers talk about a variety of technologies to tackle floods, Dr Louis Label of Chiang Mai University's Unit for Social and Environmental Research suggested a simpler approach.
"Maybe we should just make space for water so that we don't have to keep fighting with nature," he said.
"We have to look far ahead in every aspect. We don't know the economic situation in the next two decades, and maybe the government won't have enough money to invest in building flood prevention structures all the time."
Nantiya Tangwisutijit
The Nation, 22.7.2007


Maybe we should just make space for water so that we don't have to keep fighting with nature
Das scheint mir typisch - asiatische Logik zu sein...

[cmeise]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 30.067.898 von hbg55 am 20.06.07 09:15:24

Für die Grossen dürfte schon allein die Präsenz innerhalb des Landes strategisch interessant sein - die Zugangsmöglichkeiten für Ausländer scheinen mir nicht so ganz einfach zu sein (weiss das aber nicht genau).
- Was die Politik betrifft: Ich wäre erstmal sehr froh, wenn die Herren Generäle demnächst wieder in ihren Kasernen schliefen...