首页
登录
职称英语
Lake Trummen in southern Sweden used to be a polluted, weed-choked mess. Now
Lake Trummen in southern Sweden used to be a polluted, weed-choked mess. Now
游客
2024-11-25
16
管理
问题
Lake Trummen in southern Sweden used to be a polluted, weed-choked mess. Now, after a $14 million cleanup, bathers crowd its clear blue water in summer. Vaxjd, a city of 80,000 that sits on its shores, is vying to be the most environmentally pristine place in Sweden. The town’s car fleet is being converted to biogas, a clean fuel based on methane, and a new biofuel factory has created 320 jobs. Vaxjd has cut its carbon dioxide emissions by a third over the past 15 years, and the town even channels leftover heat from the local crematorium into homes.
Swedish business and political leaders think places like Vaxjd are on to something. A few decades ago the country led the world in developing mobile technology through companies such as Ericsson. Now, with telecom sales flattening, business and political leaders think green technology could spark a new export boom—crucial to Sweden, where exports account for more than half of gross domestic product. "There is huge demand around the world for this technology," says Anders Brannstrom, president of Volvo Technology Transfer, a subsidiary of truck and bus maker Volvo that has invested about $20 million in clean tech companies.
While Denmark has wind power giant Vestas and Germany has a host of big outfits such as Q-Cells that make solar cells and panels, Sweden’s clean tech sector is made up mostly of smaller companies. In Vaxjd, for instance, IV Produkt makes energy-efficient ventilation systems it exports to 15 countries, from Belgium to Ukraine. The company says the systems mean energy savings of 80% , paying for themselves in about two years.
Some 30% of IV’s $38.6 million in revenues came from exports last year, a number that is likely to hit 50% by 2012, says sales manager Bjorn Fredriksson. In a Bauhaus-like suburban research park outside Stockholm, a startup called TranSIC is designing computer chips for the power systems of hybrid vehicles. And deep in the pine forests of Boden near the Arctic Circle, Swebo Bioenergy makes systems to burn manure and wood chips for heat. The company, with close to $8 million in annual sales, says it is deluged with orders from the U. S. and Europe. " This is going like a steamroller," says export manager Mattias Lindgren.
Sweden boasts some 3,500 clean tech companies that together book roughly $14 billion in revenues. Exports, which make up about a quarter of their overall sales, have grown 75% over the last four years. To further boost the industry, the government is earmarking $590 million for environmental projects over the next two years, including $180 million to commercialize green tech. None other than King Carl XVI Gustav has become the green industry’s biggest promoter and fan: He heats his suburban Drottningholm Palace with wood pellets and drives himself to and from Stockholm in a dark blue Volvo C30 station wagon that runs on biofuel. Where possible, light bulbs in the royal residences are being replaced with the energy-saving variety. He also has a prototype car that runs on hydrogen.
The 62-year-old king, whose environmental activism goes back to his Boy Scout days, is also taking to the road to pitch Swedish green business. He recently broke ground on a plant that Swedish Biogas International is building in Flint, Mich. "Mother Earth is not feeling well," the king says, "and she’s reacting. " Green projects such as the biogas plant are one way to help repair the damage.
The king also sees Swedish exports and the environment as natural partners. "We’re a small country, so we’re dependent on exports. And we’ve always lived in a clean environment, close to nature. " He admits change isn’t easy but says, "We have to think in the long term, not short term as we have before, but still make this happen quickly. I try to change my own thinking. We have to make this happen and not just discuss it. I don’t like discussions. "
And in an interview with Business Week, he gently chides one reporter for flying to Stockholm to talk instead of picking up the phone. [br] A suitable title for the passage would be______.
选项
A、Sweden’s Green Role Model City
B、Sweden Puts Its Bets on Green Tech
C、The Application of Green Tech in Sweden
D、The King of Sweden—An Environmental Activist
答案
B
解析
主旨题。文章主要介绍瑞典致力于发展环保产业的情况,内容涉及环保技术应用的成功范例、环保产业在瑞典经济中的地位以及发展现状等几个方面,[A]、[C]、[D]都只涉及文章内容的某个方面,不够全面,故排除。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3860091.html
相关试题推荐
HighinthemountainsofsouthernFrance,thesleepytownofAurillachasfe
HighinthemountainsofsouthernFrance,thesleepytownofAurillachasfe
LakeTrummeninsouthernSwedenusedtobeapolluted,weed-chokedmess.Now
LakeTrummeninsouthernSwedenusedtobeapolluted,weed-chokedmess.Now
LakeTrummeninsouthernSwedenusedtobeapolluted,weed-chokedmess.Now
LakeTrummeninsouthernSwedenusedtobeapolluted,weed-chokedmess.Now
LakeTrummeninsouthernSwedenusedtobeapolluted,weed-chokedmess.Now
Englandoccupiesthe______portionoftheU.KA、northernB、easternC、southernD、
HighinthemountainsofsouthernFrance,thesleepytownofAurillachasfe
LakeTrummeninsouthernSwedenusedtobeapolluted,weed-chokedmess.Now
随机试题
[originaltext]W:Wow,(1)Kevin,youlookamazing!Whatanicesuit!Isitnew?M
组织中的领导者通过控制信息的流通和解释来影响他人,这属于组织权力来源中的()A.
20×7年12月2日,甲公司销售商品给乙公司,开出的增值税专用发票上标明的售价为
人力资本投资报酬递减的原因不包括()A:受教育年限延长 B:边际教育成本
风险预警程序包括()。A.信用信息的收集和传递 B.风险识别 C.风险分析
在工作上,理财师应当集中时间精力去完成重要艰巨的工作,即把100%的时间放在最重
下列直观方式中,属于模象直观的有()A.图片 B.演示实验 C.图表 D
心与脾的功能失调,最易影响A.心神的潜藏 B.精血的互化 C.血液的生成
投资项目社会评价的目的在宏观层面上不包括()。A.制订一个能够切实完成项目目标
热塑性塑料中,具有极高的透明度,透光率可达90%以上,电绝缘性能好,刚性好及耐化
最新回复
(
0
)