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PHEVs and EVs: Plugging into a Lump of Coal

Clearly, many here are tempted to stray from "Seeking Alpha" to "Seeking Psi." At times it looks like we're poaching in the 'precognition' preserve of an ESP seminar. 'Sexy science' is great for an IPO but not so great as an investment that has already soared to an unsustainable premium.

Are Energy Storage Investors Chasing Their Own Tails?

It's human nature to fixate on an aspect of the model of a problem. If you don't come to a personal understanding of a problem you cannot address it. Fortunately, a diversity of informed investigation is evident in all these approaches. The constraints of time and place affect all our personal motivations. Let a thousand ....

Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Outperforms Cool

"I'm sure we will all miss your cogent comment and analysis." Sweet.

White House Report: GM Volt Is Not Ready for Prime Time

I'm not sure what is accomplished by misquoting or quoting out of context from your posts or from others contained in this very same thread. Most of us will re-read the post referenced, not merely taking the 'quoter's' reprise. It's as if some folks are playing a game of solitary rhetorical strawman destruction derby.

A Very Smart Plan for Federal Smart Grid Grants

Are the alternatives "build it and they will come" or "legislate it and it will appear?" Who cares? Trade the enthusiasm as it waxes and wanes.

Why Pure Play Energy Storage Companies Could Double for Investors

Those enterprises involved in 'consulting' the potential beneficiaries and grantors of this largesse appear to be well into the fat. Any public plays there?

Lead-Acid, Lead-Carbon Batteries: The Only Option for Average Consumer

"..will follow ...result in huge capital outlays for feel-good facilities that have no economic value or enduring benefit." Even with rational subsidies that dismaying outcome is a given.

How to Determine Value of Alternative Energy Stocks

Loren Rogers is a transparent trolling fool. Why waste electrons, thankfully not trees, with this nonesense?

Lead-Carbon: A Game Changer for Alternative Energy Storage

Clearly, the payoff, assuming developmental and production advances that don't require substantial dilution, rests with a very senior partner, if not with a purchaser to fund significant production, distribution and marketing.

Lithium Unicorns and Alternative Energy Storage

Crikies! Read that Tahil report. Are you sure it wasn't an just a poker faced elaborate spoof of revelatory white papers?

Alternative Energy Storage Stocks: Review and Outlook

Thank you to John and all the posters here. John's articles are consistently informative and elicit the most informed comments and inquiries of any of the threads where I lurk. A propsperous New Year to all.

Alternative Energy Storage for Global Warming Agnostics

I wouldn't place any bets on what the new administration and congress will do based on the campaign rhetoric. Getting attention and elected has little to do with actually meeting the priorities imposed by reality when you are no longer in the proposing mode but are now in the disposing mode.

Alternative Energy Storage Is an Investment Tsunami

Don't know if JPs posit of an either/or trade off in transportation modes is accurate but the underlying assault on our sense of entitlement hubris is on point. Even if most, if not all, modes of energy production/harvesting, storage, distribution and final user options are employed they will require a retrenchment of our expectations for the status quo in our relative profligacy. This is not a call for hair shirts, however, just for a broader view of future demand and supply.

Alternative Energy Storage: Lithium, Lead or Both?

Most visitors here are interested in the market and, thus, supply and demand. Focusing on supply, we all view any statement about availability of capital or materials or scalable innovative concepts with reservation. Only over the last 50 or so years have the notions of finitude and residual toxicity become paramount. The 'true' costs of these supplies and their employment are more important than ever and subject to assertions of varying credibility. A lot of what can be done economically cannot be accommodated economically.

Opportunities in Energy Storage Stocks

Valuable contribution to us all, thank you. Hybrids increase your options and I have a particular 'bug' about concepts involving capacitance.