Charles Trent in Paul on Britain's South Coast has installed a deep production process. Aim is to start dismantling about a hundred end-of-life vehicles every day. The company is planning five more of these plants, meaning around 300,000 vehicles a year is their target. This whole place is powered by solar energy.
Military types need not wait until mass movements of troops to know a conflict is coming. We examine a raft of subtle and not-so-subtle market moves that would precede a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. France’s quiet volte face on the extent of NATO and the European Union will reshape European security (12:04). And how scrapyards are becoming efficient, lucrative disassembly lines (19:41).
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