Newsletter Watch: Fuel Tech Inc.

"The air in China is so polluted in the country’s largest cities that I don’ t even bother to book hotel rooms above the 10th floor anymore because you can’t see anything," says global investing expert Tony Sagami, editor of The Asia Stock Alert.

According to the European Space Agency’s indisputable satellite images, China has the planet’s worst levels of air pollution. The World Bank, Sagami says, has said China is home to 16 of the planet’s 20 most air-polluted cities.

"One culprit is coal-powered plants, which provide around 80% of China’s electricity," Sagami says. And one company that can help with this pollution, the advisor says, is Fuel Tech Inc. (Nasdaq: FTEK), a small-cap company with a market capitalization of $439 million.

"Coal-powered plants translate into some very dirty air — and a very big opportunity for someone who can help clean up China’s extremely polluted air,” he says. “Further, governments around the world are focusing on reducing greenhouse gases.” That, he suggests, is where Fuel Tech comes in.

Fuel Tech provides boiler optimization, air pollution reduction and cleaning solutions. In simple terms, he says, Fuel Tech helps coal-powered utilities reduce the amount of pollution they throw into the air and operate more efficiently.

The Clean Skies Act of 2003, he says, requires that power utilities reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by 67%, mercury by 37% and nitrogen oxide by 25% by 2018. And, he says, there are 1,500 coal-fired power plants in the United States and the Edison Electric Institute estimates that the government will spend $40 billion during the next decade to clean up the air.

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