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Why Thorium Nuclear Power Is Inevitable

Mar 23rd, 2011 | By | Category: Energy, Featured, Technology
Patrick Cox of Breakthrough Technology Alert wrote about the nuclear renaissance just a few months back, before the Japanese tsunami brought such negative attention to nuclear: Today, we’re experiencing what has been termed the “Nuclear Renaissance.” There are two aspects to this. One is domestic. The other is international, but related ...read more

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How to Profit When Big Oil Bets on Natural Gas

Sep 20th, 2010 | By | Category: Commodities, Energy, Featured
Royal Dutch Shell said that by 2012 it expects more than half of its output will be natural gas — not oil. That is as if Starbucks said it expects to sell more tea than coffee. Yet this is not unusual for Big Oil these days. In fact, most are making ...read more

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Africa, Latin America and Energy Development in the Atlantic Basin

Aug 4th, 2010 | By | Category: Energy, Featured, International, Oil
Recently, I had a long talk with Ali Moshiri, President of Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Company. Mr. Moshiri been has been working for Chevron for over 30 years. He’s one busy man, whose responsibilities begin in the southern waters of the Gulf of Mexico and extend ...read more

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How to Make 50% with an Energy Play Rebound

Jun 28th, 2010 | By | Category: Energy, Featured, Oil, Personal Investing
You’ve probably heard that old piece of investing advice to “Buy when there’s blood in the streets.” Basically, it means that there’s a geographical area, business sector or line of business that has fallen seriously out of favor. Thus, there are screaming bargains available, if you have the guts to ...read more

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China and Why Coal Prices Will Soar

Jun 21st, 2010 | By | Category: Energy, Featured, International
In Beijing, I saw firsthand the unfolding boom serving China’s new and growing disposable incomes. Besides busy shops and restaurants and 5 million cars on the road in Beijing alone, there is something more basic that underlines all of this. In fact, it is more fundamental to the entire story ...read more

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The Future of the World’s Energy Supply

Apr 7th, 2010 | By | Category: Energy, Featured, Oil
What is the future of the world’s energy supply? Here she is, in all her haze gray glory. Meet the Transocean Discoverer Inspiration. What is this floating giant? Well, in the big scheme of things Inspiration is the future of the world’s oil supply. Inspiration, and other ships much like her, is the ...read more

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What Does Global Warming Have to Do with Energy Stocks?

Dec 17th, 2009 | By | Category: Energy, Featured
Over the last couple of years, consideration of the effect of climate change has become increasingly important in analyzing a company or market trend — particularly in the energy sector. For example, I have a very bearish view on the thermal coal producers in North America and it’s due exclusively ...read more

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Global Warming Is a Politcal Science

Dec 10th, 2009 | By | Category: Energy, Featured
Last week, the global warming movement crashed, along with its holier-than-thou "only we can save the world" aura of empirical certitude. It's more like "political" science now — literally — and there are 3,000 e-mails to prove it. Down with the ship went the last semblance of unblinking, unthinking willingness ...read more

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The Future of America’s Natural Gas

Dec 9th, 2009 | By | Category: Energy, Featured
Natural gas prices have plummeted. Natural gas storage is at a maximum. Producible gas reserves are up 35% in the United States. Demand for natural gas is down because of the economy. Then suddenly a new-found U.S. natural gas producible reserve is suggesting that the U.S. in fact will be self-sufficient ...read more

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Climate, Oil, Reality and Delusion

Dec 8th, 2009 | By | Category: Energy, Featured, Oil
Against a greater welter and flow of incoherence jerking the nation this way and that way en route to collapse comes "ClimateGate," the latest excuse for screaming knuckleheads to defend what has already been lost. It is also yet another distraction from the emergency agenda that the United States faces ...read more

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