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What are the Einstein’s “Space Energy” stocks from Kent Moors?

I’ve got no shortage of possible topics to write about after a couple weeks respite — the teasers didn’t stop flowing while I was gone, and the hyperbole hasn’t been turned down for the sultry days of summer — but the one that’s been requested most has been the “Einstein’s Space Energy” pitch from Dr. Kent Moors for his Energy Inner Circle trading service.

And yes, it’s all about solar energy — he says he’s got three “Alpha Solar” companies that he thinks will make us rich with 20,000% windfall opportunities… with the line that “The coming global transition to solar electricity is an energy game-changer unlike anything since the dawn of the Oil Age.”

So what are the stocks he likes?

Well, presuming that you don’t feel like coughing up $3,950 (OK, OK, it’s “on sale” for $1,950), let’s see if we can identify the picks for you from the clues he provides in the ad… ready?

Moors says that “Right now, we’re at the pivotal moment in the most lucrative ‘mega shift’ in energy history” as technological advancements have steadily brought down the cost of solar power generation to make it competitive with fossil fuels, and that’s basically the big picture argument — that solar power, or “space energy,” is in an unstoppable advance, and will soon be the number one source of electricity on the planet. Here’s some of the spiel…

“What I CAN give you, though – if you make the one move I’m about to show you… Is a lifetime of potentially huge wins as this global energy ‘mega shift’ plays out.

  • In ever-more-efficient solar “harvesting” technologies…
  • In conversion-to-AC and transmission technologies…
  • In efficient integration of solar into the electricity grid…
  • In specialized adaptive solar grid infrastructure…
  • In new energy storage and portability technologies…
  • In powerful solar “micro grids” for the military and for remote applications…”

And a bit more…

“… solar power is on pace to multiply 5,400% globally by 2050.

“So theoretically, if your solar stocks simply reflect the industry’s growth…

“It stands to reason that a basket of decent global solar plays would make you 54 times your money over the next 35 years.

“But here’s the thing…

“The “alpha” investments in ANY sector outperform simple industry growth exponentially.

“And as the record shows, I’ve got a unique ability to hone in on these ‘alpha’ companies – in any market conditions.”

There’s a lot more of this big picture argument, but I don’t want to bore you (you can see the whole ad here if you like)… And then finally we get into the hints about the specific stocks…

“URGENT SOLAR ALPHA #1: THE “STANDARD OIL” OF PV

China produces 70% of the world’s solar modules…

“And I consider THIS company to be the best of the more than 400 Chinese PV solar companies currently in business.
That’s because they’re one of the few vertically integrated PV manufacturers in the entire People’s Republic….

“Not only are they poised to increase their market share substantially as this shortage takes effect…

“But even more so because of their ability to buy up their smaller, less financially sound competitors….

“Just a few weeks ago, the Chinese government ordered a mass consolidation of the domestic solar industry….

“These guidelines call for only 10 companies to be producing 70-80% of Chinese solar PV modules by the end of 2017!

“And yes, according to all my research…

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“This ‘Standard Oil of PV” company is going to be one of them – a BIG one… they’ve already started scooping up a number of their smaller, financially distressed competitors in anticipation of this consolidation.

If you make only one investment on this “mega shift” to solar I’m telling you about…

“THIS IS IT.”

Sounds quite irresistible and yet frustratingly non-specific, yes? Well, that’s the problem the Thinkolator runs into on this one — there are a half-dozen large Chinese companies who dominate the solar cell production business, and many of them are more or less vertically integrated and in an acquisitive mood of late. And they do trade on US exchanges, for the most part.

So which one is it? The only additional clue we get is that “already this year, their stock is up more than 55% on the NYSE!”

Well, that narrows it down a bit — both because there are only a few Chinese solar companies that have been up by 55% or more year to date in 2015, and because several of the Chinese solar companies trade on the NASDAQ, not the NYSE… so the best match, though I can’t call it definitive, is Jinko Solar (JKS). Trina Solar (TSL) is fairly close, and the far larger Hanwha Q-Cells (HQCL — long ago known as SolarFun) might be more attractive as a consolidator, but TSL hasn’t been above a 50% gain this year and HQCL doesn’t trade on the NYSE, so that leaves me with JKS.

Is it any good? Honestly, I have no idea — and after the scandals of Hanergy (HNGSF) this year and Suntech Power (STPFQ) and so many others in previous years, I have a hard time trusting the accounting of these acquisitive Chinese firms who do so much business within their own conglomerates. I’d have to study them all a lot more closely to be comfortable with their prospects, and even then I’d keep positions small — I agree that solar power is on a strong uptrend, thanks both to government subsidies and to the huge supply increases from these Chinese firms in recent years, but it’s also quite challenging to be a supplier in an oversupplied market… predictions are that the demand will continue to rise, and possibly even that prices will recover a bit, which would help, but I can’t claim to be very well-versed on this sector so I’ll just leave you with that: JKS seems the most likely match on this one, but you can check into it yourself and see what you like.

How about another one?

“URGENT SOLAR ALPHA #2: THE NEW AMERICAN SUN CHAMP

“This nimble, under-the-radar American firm is a leader in innovative power generation on all scales.

“From the smallest homestead outpost on a combination of solar, wind, and generator power…

“To the biggest manufacturing plant, via the conventional electricity grid…

“This firm does it all.

“Altogether, they’ve got generating assets of over 50,000 megawatts – enough to power over 40 million homes.
Currently, they provide several million residential, business, commercial, and industrial customers with power from multiple sources…

“Including conventional (coal and oil), nat-gas, nuclear, thermal, wind, and more.

“Their real specialty, however, is solar power.”

OK, so with 50,000 megawatts of generating capacity this is a pretty large utility company — which means that solar will be a relatively small part of the business. More?

“At the time I’m writing this, they produce 1,200 megawatts of utility-scale solar – around 2.3% of their total generating capacity.

“Now, that many not sound like a lot.

“But when you consider that right now, only 0.4% of U.S. grid electricity comes from solar…

“These guys are ahead of America’s grid-solar adoption curve by 575%!

“They’ve got a strong foothold in the residential solar sector, and are pioneers of large-scale commercial and industrial solar adaptation.

“Oh, one more thing this firm has going for it…

“They’re emerging as a major player in Electric Vehicle (EV) charging.”

This one, sez the Thinkolator, is NRG Energy (NRG) — they do have about 2.3% of their generating capacity from solar (mostly utility-scale, though a bit of distributed solar as well), and they do have an electric car charging business, but both are small parts of what is a large and pretty diversified utility company that pays a steady dividend of about 2.5%. They also have that most modern and trendy of baubles on their books, a “Renewable Energy Yieldco” — NRG Yield (NYLD) was spun off a while back to offer a stronger yield on their generating assets that are under long-term contracts, and pays at about 3.5% rate now (still quite low, particularly for a utility).

I don’t know whether it’s particularly “time sensitive” as Moors indicates, but NRG has been a very poor performer over the past year — at least, compared to their peer companies in the utility sector. They do focus on alternative energy more than many of the large electricity utilities, but I don’t know whether getting 2.3% of their power from the sun is going to give them a substantial advantage over competitors who might get 1% of their electricity from solar… so far, it hasn’t helped much.

Their IPO of NYLD was pretty successful a couple years ago, and gives them another financing source as they “drop down” (sell) generating assets to the yieldco (much like a refiner might “drop down” their pipeline networks to a MLP), but they also face the same pressures as other income-oriented investments in a rate-scared environment: If investors fear rapid rises in interest rates, they tend to sell utilities and REITs and MLPs (and bonds, of course)… and if rates really do rise substantially, a utility that pays a 2-3% yield, even if it can raise that dividend every year by a few percent, is not so compelling compared to a guaranteed bond yield that could conceivably reach 4-5%.

And we’ve got one more to look for…

“URGENT SOLAR ALPHA #3: THE QUIRKY ‘SMART GRID’ ONE-OF-A-KIND

“Unlike today’s antiquated grids, in which electricity flows only one way – from generation point to consumer…
The ‘smart grid’ of the future will need the ability to feed electricity back into the grid from millions of private generation points as solar power takes over.

“It’ll also need the ability to juggle electricity from a myriad of sources – coal, gas, oil, wind, solar, nuke, hydro, thermal, steam, etc…

“And efficiently modulate it for use during periods of wildly fluctuating demand….

“… there’s one company that I’m predicting is going to positively explode out of the gate on this transition…

“It’s a quirky, fascinating international company that’s actually been around in one form or another since 1870.

“Their specialty: controlling energy.

“Through switches, relays, valves, and governors. Through sensors, circuits, computers, and breakers…

“Through every imaginable way of controlling any flow of energy, anywhere.

“Electronically, kinetically, mechanically – you name it.

“Whatever is needed to control any kind of power you want, these guys invent, manufacture, and service it.

“And one of their BIGGEST areas of expertise is controls for electricity generation and distribution.

“In other words, they’re just what the doctor ordered for a major global push into “smart grid” technology….”

“Everybody is going to know about this one-of-a-kind firm soon.

“If I’m right, they’re going to be one of the BIG early winners in the ‘mega shift’ to solar power.”

So who’s this? Well, again we’re fairly light on the specific clues from Dr. Moors here, but the Thinkolator’s best match is the old Woodward Governor Company, now known just as Woodward (WWD). They are not particularly well known, they’re still pretty small with a market cap around $3 billion and they do indeed specialize in all kinds of energy controls, with their two biggest markets being energy generation and distribution and aerospace. The stock has done pretty well over the last couple years, and investors have been generally pleased with recent news (a joint venture with GE Aerospace on fuel systems, and a new authorization for a $250 million share buyback).

Analysts have put pretty stiff growth expectations on WWD, so the valuation looks pretty decent if that growth materializes — they’re expected to grow earnings by about 10% next year (starting October 2015) and 20% in the following year, so the trailing PE of about 20 isn’t out of line even if you wouldn’t call it “cheap”, but it’s also true that they’ve struggled to deliver on that kind of growth promise over the last few years — they’ve only had one quarter of 10% year-over-year earnings growth since 2012.

This one strikes me as interesting, largely because they’ve managed to maintain pretty strong gross margins over the last decade in a business that I would assume is probably quite competitive– they must be doing something right. Whether it’s sustainable, of course, is a call I can’t make after spending 20 minutes browsing their financials, but I’m pretty impressed with this one after my first look and it makes me feel a bit warmer and fuzzier in the belly than the other two solutions the Thinkolator has found for today’s Dr. Moors tease.

But it is, of course, your money at stake — so it’s your call. What do you think? Ready for a new wave of solar riches? Think Moors is picking the right players (or, of course, do you think the Thinkolator’s results are wrong this time? Normally I can give 100% certainty for these solutions, but the clues are squishy enough that there’s room for debate today). Let us know where your thinking leads you, just use the friendly little comment box below. Thanks for reading!

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Mike
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Mike
July 6, 2015 3:15 pm

Welcome Back “T”. They’re pushing this one hard!.

Thanks

gerrievr
July 6, 2015 4:24 pm

Welcome back we missed you!

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N Raymond Day
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N Raymond Day
July 6, 2015 4:31 pm

Just seems to me that all these newsletter advisory companies make their money on new newsletters and not on the advice they give.

Dave
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July 6, 2015 5:33 pm
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You bet they do! They’re not dummies. FAR easier to fleece the sheep than predict markets.

Don
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July 7, 2015 9:44 pm
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RIGHT ON DAVE!

Robert
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August 15, 2015 3:07 pm
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Agreed. However, Moors whom claims having a PhD credits Einstein with I assume discovering “Space Energy” and thus which would logically lead to solar energy which evidentally was mentioned in his writings in the Theory of General Relativity in 1905.
Even though solar energy is common terminology in theoretical physics today, one would more than likely hear the term “Dark Energy” if any theoretical physicist were describing a term such as “Dark Energy”. To make my point which was my original intent. Solar Energy was not only first described and explained in great detail in his first patent on solar energy in the early 1890’s, however, he used the term “Radiant Energy” in lieu of the modern lexicon. And of course I speak of the genius whom during his time was routinely marginalized, never deservingly credited for completed labor, patents stolen (i.e. Marconi stole 17 of his patents to ” invent” the radio; thankfully the U.S. Supreme reversed this decision in 1943-unfortunately it was one year after he died), and of course there were enough injustices done to this man throughout his 85 year life span, a book could be written about the many difficulties he endured and withstood and did it with more grace than any many in history for which I am aware. In closing, I of course speak solemnly of one of the greatest not just geniuses or visionaries but of major importance to humanity: Nikola Tesla- ” I care not of the present, for that is theirs they can have it, as for me I live to work for the future, that shall be mine”.
Even though solar energy is common terminology in theoretical physics today, one would more than likely hear the term “Dark Energy” if any theoretical physicist were describing a term such as “Dark Energy”.

dfishmon58
July 6, 2015 4:43 pm

Money Map Press push them all hard! Don’t they?

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david cregar
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david cregar
July 6, 2015 4:45 pm

Sunedison, ticker: SUNE is up 44% on NYSE. 20,000x l? Theres been quite a push last few years with the tax credit and fancy financing ( adding it to property tax, avoiding normal equity qualification.) I can only imagine in 20 yrs it can take to payoff what a dinosaur today panel (made in china?) may become.

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Jim Nadel
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July 6, 2015 4:50 pm

Travis, Good Job. You are absolutely correct on all three. I actually subscribe to Kent Moors “Energy Inner Circle”. And I’m looking at the report, “3 Urgent “Solar Alpha” Stocks.”. He recommended JKS awhile back and I made money on it by buying calls. I sold them when the price was at $30. Now that JKS has dipped into the high $20s, this might be the time to jump back in. Woodward looks interesting as well.

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Adam
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July 8, 2015 5:45 pm
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Jim, do you like Kents research overall?

Ronald E. Baker
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Ronald E. Baker
July 6, 2015 4:52 pm

Dr, Kent Moors has really gone into oratorical orbit on this one. Reminds me of his call some months ago that the oil price decline has ended and it was time to get back in; wonder what his comment is today? I’ve known Woodward for at least 50 years, visited their plant back in the 1960’s; sounds about right. No huge skyrocket here, but a solid company. The rest sound about as certain a bet as Bakken and Oil Sands crude bouncing back to $100/bbl. next week, or a fortune in oil from Coober Peddy, Australia. How does this guy Moors get to teach college courses, travel the world, consult every major oil company, all the Sheiks in Saudi and Putin too, and still have the time (days?) to put out this stuff? It doesn’t add up. Yet another Coober Peddy 2013 tight oil discovery tease; (what ever happened to that after Kent gave them to his Energy Inner Circle at $750/year) ? I’ll give Kent one big accolade: he’s the B S-o-lator of the year! If you’ve got an hour to while away, listen to this guy; like Old Fezziwig, P.T. Barnum is alive again!

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dave
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July 14, 2015 11:39 am

He gave me an education few years back. I was under water subscribed for 6 months to his news letter .He did refund the second half of the year .He said ”theirs a ghost in the machine”. On wall st .the stock options had a ghost in it . that was my conformation I was on a ride .Looking back and laugh now. Option board as we know is in Chicago . But he knows the ghost lol on the wall st board.

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July 19, 2015 6:44 pm

Hi Ronald, I follow Kent Moors quite a bit. He resigned from his teaching job late 2014 or early 2015. This is why he can put more time in the rest of the other things. Have a good one.

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December 19, 2015 3:15 pm

RONALD, DID YOU ATTEND ISU IN THE EARLY 60’S? IF SO I LIVED ACROSS HALL FROM YOU IN RITCHY HOUSE. JUST CURIOUS…:-)

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July 6, 2015 4:56 pm

I strongly suggest to anyone thinking about a long play in energy stocks that they view a documentary called “Pandora’s Promise” (Stone) before doing so, Solar, Wind, and Geothermal renewable energy sources are going to be extremely small players on the Global Energy Grid as mankind moves away from his reliance on carbon based energy sources. Logic dictates that Atomic Energy WILL win in the long haul. Look into the third, fourth, or fifth generation atomic reactor technologies. That is where the money will change hands!!!

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July 8, 2015 8:32 pm
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I can’t agree with you on that. Public opinion, however misinformed, will increasingly dictate that the spread of atomic energy is unpalatable. And until the threat of global terrorism is contained a proliferation of atomic and nuclear power will be severely curtailed.

What’s missing in this debate is the advent and advances in battery technology which will ultimately determine whether or not the future of energy is renewable, atomic, hydrogen or fossil. The clue is the humble power tool powered with 18V or 24V Li batteries. (I’m not suggesting the auto industry will travel much further on this route as the hydrogen fuel cell has rolled right over the top of the electric car). I am aware that extensive R&D is underway already in the appliance industry with non grid products.

The electricity grid is potentially the next dinosaur and its demise would render the Woodward’s of this world obsolete. It’s a long bow I know but extrapolate that concept combined with solar recharging and you may have a window into the future.

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Ronald E. Baker
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Ronald E. Baker
July 12, 2015 1:00 pm
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In theory you have a point. The problem is both timing and mass production of the new experimental battery technology. These things look great in the lab but will take decades to fully develop as big alternatives to present power sources/grids. There is also a lack of massive capital to rapidly install revolutionary, as yet unproven, new energy systems, charging stations, batteries and all that is needed to replace the grid. Nuclear power was first hyped in the late 1940’s as a great, clean, solution; yet it wasn’t really until the 1970’s, (after 30 years) that the potential of clean nuclear began to replace coal, gas and oil electricity generation. The huge “park” of efficient nuclear generation capacity soon to be in operation (600 reactors, world-wide) will deliver essential base power onto most grids, cleanly, safely and carbon-free for many decades. These are not about to be scrapped! Look forward to a mix of sources as most realistic and invest accordingly: Advanced Nuclear Reactors; efficient grids; cheap gas powered back-up generators, existing hydro-electric capacity; solar power for remote, rural and alternative power needs and finally a small (under 1%) from wind and ocean currents.

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Douglas Asbury
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August 6, 2015 3:11 am

I watched the PBS two-parter the last couple of days titled “Uranium – Twisting the Dragon’s Tail.” Toward the end, the discussion of nuclear power generation turned from a focus on the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters to a brief discussion with a researcher who is pursuing ways of using the spent rods from existing reactors to continue producing power with them until all their radioactivity has been used up in the process. However long these studies and experiments take to bear fruit – if they are able to do so (and the program host, physicist Derek Muller, seemed positive about the likelihood of success, though he was not about to suggest a timetable for widespread implementation) – it seems from what was said that nuclear could become not only the safest but also the least polluting of the power generation technologies that use mined fuels. The possibilities of investing in such developments are not yet available, and may not be in our lifetimes; but they seem plausible within this century, if not the next couple of decades. Is anyone familiar with Muller, the PBS program, or the technological research that is going on in this field?

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Carbon Bigfoot
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July 12, 2015 8:00 pm
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I can’t agree with your conclusions John, as the Energy Realities do not favor renewables as you define them. Shale Gas & Oil are the true renewables.
All of you reading this need to view the ENERGY REALITIES video from the Tenth Annual Climate Conference last month in DC that I attended.
View the Panel 3 and listen to Mark Mills at http://climate conference.heartland.org/ for a dose of TRUTH SERUM. Then tell be about batteries– I did R&D in that Industry. I know the limitations.

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marti
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July 12, 2015 9:42 am
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wrong – germany is an example of how wind works very well. nuclear energy is still very dirty and nobody wants it in their back yard.

Carbon Bigfoot
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July 13, 2015 9:04 pm
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Germany’s windmills are operating at less than 15% of Nameplate Capacity forcing the Germans to buy their electricity from the French who generate 80% of there power by Nuclear Reactors.

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July 24, 2015 9:51 pm
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No. 178 • July 13, 2015
Contact Editor H. Sterling Burnett
CLIMATE CHANGE WEEKLY #178:
HIGH HURDLES FOR
RENEWABLE POWER STORAGE
A key mechanism for fighting climate change, some environmental activists and politicians say, is to increase the amount of electricity produced from renewable sources that do not emit carbon dioxide (CO2).
As nearly everyone knows, a key problem with wind and solar power is their intermittency, which makes those power sources difficult to accommodate in the electric grid. To provide power when wind and solar aren’t producing energy, and to regulate their variable power output when they are, requires expensive “backup generation,” largely from running fossil fuel or nuclear power plants at less-than-efficient levels: On-again, off-again is never as efficient as keeping a power plant running at a steady pace.
The intermittency burden increases as the percentage of renewable sources contributing to the grid is increased. For Texas’s ERCOT grid with 10.6% wind, the additional costs are approximately $19/MWh for generation plus approximately $6.50/MWh for transmission.
To overcome renewable power’s intermittency problem and thus get the full CO2-reducing benefit from expanded renewable power, the industry is searching for ways to store excess electricity generated when the wind blows and the sun shines, to be released when wind turbines are not turning or solar panels are not generating power due to clouds or at night.
Author and inventor Rud Istvan notes “in principle [there are] only five ways that generated electricity can be subsequently ‘stored:’ potential energy (e.g. pumped hydro), kinetic energy (e.g. flywheels), electrostatic energy (capacitors), electrochemical energy (batteries), and chemical energy (e.g. water hydrolysis).”
Pumped hydro storage (PHS) is widespread and efficient where suitable, affordable terrain (hilly or mountainous regions) with a regular water supply is available. Most electrical grids in developed countries already have taken advantage of PHS to the extent they can, including supporting renewable power generation in the alpine regions of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Most places favorable for wind (Great Plains states, Denmark, northern Germany) or solar (the Mojave Desert or Death Valley) are unsuitable locations for PHS.
Kinetic energy storage using large rotors or flywheels to generate electricity and electrostatic storage in capacitors are ubiquitous in the electric power industry but can store only enough energy to provide transient voltage/frequency regulation. Neither can store enough energy for bulk wind and solar needs.
Battery storage is tremendously expensive at commercial scales, requires a great deal of land, and often uses toxic and/or corrosive chemicals. A123 Systems LLC attempted to develop a utility-scale battery pack, but despite more than $263 million in federal support, it lost more than $500 million, declared bankruptcy, and was sold off to a Chinese company at a $119 million loss. The battery system it created cost $14.4 million to back up a single $3.5 million 2 MW wind turbine.
Chemical energy storage is even more expensive and less efficient than battery power. Only experimental systems exist.
Istvan concludes, “Utilities already utilize four out of five forms of energy storage wherever they make sense. It is very unlikely that any grid storage solution (other than PHS where feasible) could ever practically cover the intermittency of high penetration utility scale wind and solar.”
— H. Sterling Burnett
SOURCE: Climate Etc.
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IN THIS ISSUE …
Shale revolution boosts trade, chemical industry … UK government cuts green energy, climate research … Carbon dioxide, boon not bane for the biosphere … Dams butcher biodiversity … China’s carbon market collapses
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SHALE REVOLUTION BOOSTS TRADE, CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Due primarily to the shale gas revolution, the $800 billion U.S. chemicals industry will experience 3.2 percent growth in 2015 and more than 3 percent in 2016, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC). With the Federal Reserve estimating just 1.0 to 2.3 percent GDP growth for the U.S. economy as a whole through 2018, ACC forecasts the domestic chemical industry’s growth to exceed that of the nation as a whole for years to come, topping 5% between 2017 and 2019. The growth is expected to accompany record trade surpluses for the industry by 2020.
Fracking released abundant and cheap natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs), including ethane, which are key feedstocks and fuel for the chemical industry. Less than a decade ago, the domestic chemical industry was in decline as natural gas prices were high and estimated reserves low. Chemical manufacturing was moving overseas. All that has changed in response to the low gas prices brought about by the fracking revolution. ACC reports 238 U.S. chemicals companies have announced investment projects in 2015 worth a total of $145 billion, up from $90 billion in announced projects as of mid-2014.
SOURCE: Wall Street Daily
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UK GOVERNMENT CUTS GREEN ENERGY, CLIMATE RESEARCH
Support for green energy and funding for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) seems to be waning in the UK. With core departments’ budgets, including education and health care, off-limits, Chancellor George Osborne is expected to make steep cuts in some non-core programs, including climate and energy programs, in an effort to balance the budget or at least significantly reduce the government’s annual deficit. The environmental think tank Green Alliance has calculated DECC could be receiving just £40 million by 2018–19, a cut of 90 percent from its 2014–15 budget of £402 million.
In addition, the government is concerned the cost of green energy subsidies, primarily for wind farm and solar installations, is expected to top the government’s self-imposed cap of £7.6 billion a year by 20 percent, more than £1.5 billion. Absent a reduction in green energy commitments and accompanying charges, by 2020 every household in the country will be forced to pay an estimated £170 (roughly $264) a year to support the renewable electricity schemes promoted by the previous coalition government. To avoid this substantial increase, Osborne is expected to abandon the previous coalition government’s increase in environmental taxes such as the Carbon Price Floor, charged on fossil fuels, and the Climate Change Levy, which businesses pay on their energy use.
SOURCES: The Telegraph and Breitbart UK
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CARBON DIOXIDE, BOON NOT BANE FOR THE BIOSPHERE
With 2050 estimates of human population consistently topping 9 billion people, requiring a doubling of food production, research scientists Sherwood, Craig, and Keith Idso say the human-induced increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide will be a good thing.
The Idsos estimate world food production will be only 37 percent greater relying solely on anticipated improvements in agricultural technology. But risking carbon dioxide levels can overcome the shortfall. Not only is carbon dioxide a plant fertilizer, increasing the total biomass and vegetable, seed, and fruit production, but it also reduces water loss through transpiration. This is critical because, as researcher Jim S. Wallace noted in 2000, increased food production will require more, and more efficient, water use. Wallace wrote we must do everything we can “to fix more carbon per unit of water transpired.”
Thousands of laboratory and field experiments have demonstrated elevated concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide reduce plant water loss by transpiration, while simultaneously enhancing plant photosynthesis and biomass production. Together, those phenomena enable Earth’s vegetation to produce considerably more food per unit of water used in the food production process.
And if increased carbon dioxide is contributing to a modest increase in global temperature, so much the better for human health. The Idsos cite a study in the Lancet using data obtained from 384 locations around the world, examining a total of 74,225,200 human deaths that occurred between 1985 and 2012, concluding “more temperature-attributable deaths were caused by cold (7.29%) than by heat (0.42%),” which makes cold in excess of 17 times more deadly than heat.
SOURCE: CO2 Science.org
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DAMS BUTCHER BIODIVERSITY
A new study in PLOS One shows hydroelectric dams take a heavy toll on biodiversity. Large hydroelectric dams are being constructed worldwide at an unprecedented rate in an effort to electrify developing countries without increasing greenhouse gas emissions. A study by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows the Amazonian Balbina Dam is having a dramatic effect on tropical rainforest biodiversity, including a loss of mammals, birds, and tortoises from the vast majority of islands formed by the creation of the vast Balbina Lake.
The Balbina Dam is one of the world’s largest hydroelectric dams in terms of total flooded area. Its creation resulted in a formerly unbroken landscape of undisturbed tropical forest converted into an archipelago of 3,546 islands. The study found large vertebrates, including mammals, large game birds, and tortoises disappeared from most islands formed by the creation of the Balbina Lake. Of the 3,546 islands created, only 25 are likely to still harbor at least four-fifths of all 35 target species surveyed in the study.
Lead author Dr Maíra Benchimol reports, “We found that only a few islands larger than 475 hectares still contained a diverse community of animal and bird species, which corresponds to only 0.7 per cent of all islands in the reservoir.”
Coauthor Carlos Peres, from UEA’s School of Environmental Sciences, said, “The Brazilian government is currently planning to build hundreds of new dams in some of the world’s most biodiverse tropical forest regions. But the high biodiversity costs of mega dams should be carefully weighed against any benefits of hydropower production.”
SOURCE: Science Daily
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CHINA’S CARBON MARKET COLLAPSE
China committed to capping its carbon dioxide emissions and to cut the amount of carbon dioxide it produces per unit of economic growth by 60 to 65 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. That commitment depends in large part on the success of the carbon emissions trading scheme the country is establishing … but the results thus far are not promising. Analysts blame regulatory uncertainty, a lack of transparency, and possible favoritism shown to large influential companies as undermining the seven regional carbon trading markets that are intended to be merged into a national market by 2017.
Three of the regional markets, Tianjin, Hubei and Chongqing, have postponed carbon restriction deadlines to give companies more time to meet targets and avoid fines, raising concerns about the integrity of trading rules. A trader who requested anonymity noted, “It is impossible to check if the authorities are allowing big influential companies to flout the rules because emissions data is not revealed.”
China said it would need to invest 41 trillion yuan ($6.6 trillion) to meet its UN pledges with trade in the national carbon market expected to cover about 30 percent of the annual investment by 2020. However, prices in five of the markets have fallen sharply, with permits on the Shanghai market at the end of its compliance year listed at 15.5 yuan, down 38 percent from its launch, and permits in the biggest exchange in Guangdong dropping 73 percent to 16 yuan. Low demand has meant minimal liquidity, with just 2 percent of the permits handed out annually traded in the regional markets during their first two years of operation.
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Jim S.
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July 12, 2015 5:38 pm
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I agree with you Brian. But the type of Atomic Energy that is the likely long term solution is FUSION not the traditional FISION nuclear reactors. Two concrete efforts going on in this area: 1) the international consortium building a demonstration project in France (of all places) and 20 the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. I have to admit that efforts to develop Fusion has been going on for a long, long, long time. I have not tried to update myself on the status of either effort. Anyone have any recent info. on them?

Dan
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May 30, 2017 10:13 pm
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What is the 3.47 stock that is a defense contractor that uses nano- grid energy and developed the portable power vest, and has several defense contracts.

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July 6, 2015 5:28 pm

Don’t know if nuclear will win in the long run, but am reluctant to go overboard for solar at this point. According to several articles (some in reputable pubs), solar collection “farms” are killing birds and other wildlife by the tens of thousands. Environmentalist outrage could put a damper on long range growth. Plus, most of the “renewable” energy companies are highly dependent on government subsidies.

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July 6, 2015 6:35 pm
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In addition, these SWAGs have to be backed-up by a carbon fueled (NG) generator, or gas-fired power plants—that’s in case the SUN doesn’t SHIINE at NIGHT. Of course that is not entered into ROI calculations distorting projected efficiency–GO FIGURE.
What a waste of habitat and birds. WHERE ARE THE EVIRONMENTALISTS? THEY ARE ACCOMPLISING THE REPLACEMENT OF CARBON FUELS—THE BIGGER AGENDA!!!!

Al B
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July 6, 2015 11:01 pm
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When battery storage becomes cost effective, it won’t matter if the sun shines at night…

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July 7, 2015 10:36 am
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HAVING LAB CONSTRUCTED THE FIRST PROTOTYPE LITHIUM BATTERY THAT WORKED
( IN THE LATE 60s ) FOR NASA—IT AIN’T GOING TO HAPPEN IN MY LIFETIME OF YOURS.

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July 7, 2015 12:01 pm
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Carbon Bigfoot…..Based on your age clues and average life spans, I’m guessing your predicting battery storage cost efficiencies within 15 years at he earliest.

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July 7, 2015 11:46 pm
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It depends how old Al B is because I think the OF is a typo and should be OR

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July 8, 2015 4:43 pm
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Of course OF was supposed to be OR. My Bad. Common sense would tell you that. Having three strokes in my lifetime, the last in 2007 simply removed my ability to spell or proof read my comments. So for the record, moving forward I apologize for all my future spelling, or grammatical errors. Since I expect to live for another 30 years—which will make me 102, it will be 2045 before batteries will fulfill everybody’s energy wet dreams. The same goes for solar without a major change in THERMODYNAMICS.
One of my savant colleagues has a website you all need to visit: https://www.fauxscienceslayer.com. When you’re done understanding the principles presented on this website—then we can debate the merits of alternative energy based upon Fundamental Religious Science.

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Richard
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July 7, 2015 2:57 am
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Hot substrate storage, salt or solid, is sufficient. Cheaper on a large scale and more reliable than batteries. Batteries are fine for smaller scale, distributed. Still not up to the cost:energy density /cycle capability for wide use.

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July 7, 2015 11:53 am
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How do you store solar panel power in Hot substrate, salt or solid? I am using batteries with dismal results.

Patrick
July 10, 2015 4:20 pm
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Won’t matter whatsoever when Russia or a rogue nation drops a giant EMP bomb on the US and the power grid is knocked out for months. Trust me, its coming…..

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July 7, 2015 2:59 am
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Birds has got to get somewhere near to the focal point… Perhaps this is a survival of fittest type thing.

N Raymond
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July 6, 2015 6:37 pm

So how do we fund our last years from all this advice?
I am still working at 74. Take a look at my website above.

Carbon Bigfoot
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July 7, 2015 10:37 am
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SAVE YOUR MONEY—BUY THE ENERGY ETF.

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July 6, 2015 6:47 pm

No promises that I got it all right but I think the Market stuff I read this morning said the China stock markets fell off a cliff in the last few days and broke through the current support. Maybe wait and see what is going on and where it all stops before buying anything in China?

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July 6, 2015 8:14 pm

Thanks for the “Alpha Solar” tips. Now, only 34 years and 364 days to make huge profits from them.

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GARY BRODERICK
July 6, 2015 8:24 pm

TRAVIS, WOULD YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT BYRON KING’S MILITARY TECH ALERT AND THE THREE MILITARY SUPERCONTRACTS (AS LISTED ON SOME “GOV’T TIPOFF WEBSITE” AS IT IS CALLED) WORTH 156.25 BILLION AND ALL THE 100’S AND 1000’S % GAINS THEY WILL MAKE? DON’T KNOW IF THIS IS ANOTHER PUSH FOR BYRON KING’S NEWSLETTER AT A WHOPPING $1500 PER YEAR. I KNOW I CAN’T AFFORD THAT. THANKS VERY MUCH!

jbinsc
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July 6, 2015 9:24 pm

Travis, Welcome back. Do you believe that the fed meeting and an assumed .25 interest will cause the U.S. dollar to go ballistic and destroy our economy? I’m tired of hearing Stansberry and their sister companies pushing this to attempt to create fear. I appreciate your take on this, although I realize you cannot guarantee anything. Thanks,
jbinsc

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July 7, 2015 2:17 am
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AGREE, welcome back and what about Stansberry, Ron Paul, Gold Bugs and other assorted Doomsayers?

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Les
July 6, 2015 10:23 pm

A while back I subscribed to one of Mr Moors publications.
He suggested about a dozen companies. I bought about 8 and every one of them is way under water. No doubt the 4 I did not take probably went up 1000% each [not].

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July 6, 2015 10:58 pm

I don’t know what has happened to Oxford, Money Map, and several other names but I now get at least 5 or more of the same teasers nearly every day. I bring it to their attention but to no avail. Still unhappy over my loses in High Velosity!

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William Armstrong
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July 6, 2015 11:01 pm

Travis, I can’t thank you enough for evaluation of investments I have wound up NOT making. With all the incessant hype on this thinly-disguised solar play, it can’t be good at least in my lifetime. Moors may be a great teacher, a great council to the world’s oil elite, a great husband and father. He just ain’t no stock picker, at least in my experience.
Heme

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July 7, 2015 12:07 am

Moors isn’t a great anything except a big pile of sh..

backoffice
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July 6, 2015 11:02 pm

what’s the $3 tiny bio-tech guaranteed or they’ll write you a thousand dollar check?

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July 7, 2015 12:25 pm
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Hopefully that one’s next on Travis’ list.

masthead
July 6, 2015 11:19 pm

I remain amazed at how little interest there is in thorium as a fuel for nuclear power. There is a huge database of the history of thorium (not good for making nuclear warheads) vs. uranium (very good for making nuclear warheads, and much more costly for rad waste disposal). Those who claim to be interested in the environment and ecology, etc. sort of fell off the train on this issue, or so it seems to me. Hard to take them seriously… I guess there is some need to make sure that Iran and Pakistan use uranium in their nuclear programs so that we provide employment for high level negotiators, or something…

If you care about nuclear power sans atomic bombs, look at http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Current-and-Future-Generation/Thorium/ where you will find an enlightening and very thorough report from a Chinese gentleman. Welcome to the real world (of science).

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July 7, 2015 12:06 am
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Hi Ankrclnkr, the reason there is no interest is because there is no way to invest in it, or at least no way that has the promise of a reasonable return in the foreseeable future.
It may be a great idea and there was considerable interest in it on previous threads.
But the trouble is (1) that there are very low prices in the other energy sectors,
(2) there are no thorium plants we know of that will go online within the next five or ten or fifteen years , and (3) there doesn’t seem to be commodity market for thorium that is visible to anybody (4) there is no supply chain or infrastructure for it that anybody can
recognize. So great as it may be, how the hell does one invest in it, unless you are prepared to wait for twenty or thirty years ?

Cordially

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July 8, 2015 3:47 pm
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Thorium reactors and infrastructure: Where is Elon Musk when you need him? This is a guy who gets private consultation with the POTUS, and billions of loans/grants/loan backing. Instead of playing around with luxury cars, he should consider getting behind the Thorium alternative.
I think there is one in Oak Ridge TN, that was shut down around 1998 after operating for 50 years or so (correct me as needed). There is a guy on YouTube with some interesting video on this subject, if you have the 45+ minutes to soak it all in.
Would not Thorium be the optimal test for places like Iran? They say they want peaceful nuclear power; so prove it and go Thorium!

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