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batteriesOil Analyst Makes Case for Electric Cars and Picks Copper as Way to Play Battery Future

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December 10, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
Marin Katusa of Katusa Research is an oil and uranium analyst. He gave his take last year on oil and uranium prices. Oil will remain range bound and Uranium prices will recover but in 2 to 5 years from last …
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businessElon Said He Can Be Stupid But Parking Lot Assembly Line Was Built in 3 Weeks

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December 10, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
Elon Musk was interviewed a couple of days ago on 60 Minutes by Leslie Stahl. They focused upon the craziness with Tesla, the Elon tweets that got punished by the SEC, the pot smoking by Elon on Joe Rogan, the …
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energySuperconductors Are Near Room Temperature But UHV Lines are Better for the Grid

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December 10, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
It has been over 30 years since the discovery of the first high-temperature superconductor. The first high-temperature superconductor was 30 degrees about absolute zero. There was a flurry of work and the critical temperature reached -135 Celsius (138 Kelvin). The …
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climateClimate Change Demand is Telling Putin and Texas Oilmen to Stop and French to Sacrifice

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December 9, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
The IPCC (UN Climate Change committee of scientists) and other climate groups have put out reports with dire warning about the climate crisis. They are demanding that the world shift from fossil fuels to clean energy and for ALL industry …
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climate changeTexas Has Oil Past 2050 and Telling Real-Life JR Ewings to Stop Will Not Work

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December 9, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
The US Geological Survey has performed an updated survey of the primary oil basin in Texas and doubled their estimate of technically recoverable oil and gas from 2016. Fracking Technology Keeps Improving They did not change how much oil they …
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energyTaiwan is Still Moving to Shutdown Nuclear Reactor Despite Pro-Nuclear Vote

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December 7, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
Taiwan’s recent election passed a pro-nuclear measure with a 59-41 majority. The will of the Taiwan people was to stop the phasing out of nuclear power. The ruling DPP party has an anti-nuclear power policy and passed a law in …
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air pollutionChina and Tesla Can Fix Each Others Most Important Problems

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December 7, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
China and Tesla both have a lot to gain by working together and they can each fix the others problems and weaknesses. I have written about this in a recent article, but I wanted to simplify my case. It happens …
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energyOPEC and Russia Will Cut 1.2 Million Barrels per Day for 6 Months

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December 7, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
OPEC and Russia have agreed to a 1.2 million barrel per day production output cut. World Oil production is just over 100 million barrels per day, so this is a 1.2% global cut. This is about 3% cut for OPEC …
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air pollutionChina Will Help Tesla Go to Foxconn Scale to Stop Air Pollution and Save the Planet

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December 6, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
No one questions the ability for giant factories, cities, infrastructure and supply chains to be built in China. No one questions that Elon Musk is perhaps the greatest living industrial and technological innovator and he is in the running for …
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batteriesChina Will Ensure Tesla Survives by Getting Gigafactory Built and Operating in 6 to 12 Months Instead of Years

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December 6, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
Chinese site Caijing.com reports that Tesla Gigafactory 3 construction has started in China and that production will start and ramp up in the second half of 2019. Tesla initially claimed vehicle production in Gigafactory 3 would start roughly two years …
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