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Elon Musk just <a href="http://www.mauldineconomics.com/go/uqcir-2/COT" target="_blank">unveiled</a> something called the “Tesla Powerwall,” a means to store solar created electricity in people’s homes… with the potential to put the entire utility industry out of business.<br />
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As you probably know, Musk also has these electric cars that people seem to like to drive… with the potential to put all the major car manufacturers out of business. Oh, and the dealerships too.<br />
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Musk also has a <em>spaceship company</em>. It is his stated goal to leave Earth and set up shop on Mars. He has already put the US government out of business when it comes to space.<br />
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How did he manage to do all this stuff? He made $34 million selling a software company when he was 24, which he freerolled into PayPal, which he made $165 million selling in 2002. He then freerolled that into SpaceX and Tesla.<br />
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Oh, and another thing. Musk thinks the state of California is incompetent to build a choo-choo train going from San Francisco to Los Angeles, so he drew up plans for a “Hyperloop,” basically a giant pneumatic tube that can get you there in 35 minutes for $20.<br />
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He said he didn’t have time to build it, so he gave the plans to the state for free. (Jerry Brown is going ahead with the snail rail. Unions need to get paid, you know.)<br />
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<strong>Feel Terrible About Yourself Yet?</strong></h4>
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I’m not done. He is chairman of a company called SolarCity, which is the second biggest residential solar panel maker in the country. They will come to your house and install solar panels, so you don’t have to buy electricity from the grid.<br />
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Now—if you <a href="http://www.mauldineconomics.com/go/uqcms-2/COT" target="_blank">watch the video</a> of Musk’s Powerwall speech, you’ll start to see the genius of his plan.<br />
You have these giant batteries you keep in your house (which take up little space and hang flat on the wall).<br />
You have solar panels on your roof to generate electricity.<br />
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You store the electricity in the battery when the sun goes down.<br />
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You charge your car off the battery.<br />
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Everything—every house, every car, every business--is now powered by what Elon Musk calls a “giant nuclear fusion reactor in the sky, which runs all the time.” Not oil or gas or coal.<br />
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I wouldn’t consider myself a big environmentalist, but still, this excites me. Have you ever heard of something called “Moore’s Law” where computing power grows at an exponential rate? It applies to solar panels too. It won’t be long before solar power is cheaper than conventional energy sources.<br />
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The politics of it are a little tricky. I don’t like subsidizing solar, and SolarCity’s entire business model is based on solar tax credits. But soon, it won’t matter—the technology will exist for solar power to compete directly with fossil fuels. And the higher oil prices go, the better solar will look.<br />
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Elon Musk is a pretty inspirational character, but he seems to have made a lot of enemies along the way. Democrats don’t like him because he’s a creature of business and finance. Republicans don’t like him because he lives off subsidies. Not bad for a guy who calls himself half Democrat, half Republican.<br />
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The car companies sure don’t like him. If oil gets back above $100, they will like him even less. The history of the auto industry is full of all kinds of backstabbing and intrigue (see Preston Tucker).<br />
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If everyone starts driving electric cars, the oil companies aren’t going to like him very much, either.<br />
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And the utilities are really going to have it out for him. But they suck. Of all the terrible businesses out there, including the tobacco companies, I despise the utilities the most—even if it isn’t really their fault.<br />
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The utilities generate and distribute electricity pretty much the same way they have for the last 100 years. No innovation at all. Why not? Well, because we decided they were utilities! If you put a cap on the rate of return someone can earn, there isn’t a lot left over for innovation. So be very careful what you start calling a public utility.<br />
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SolarCity gives us the promise of <em>distributed generation</em>, where electricity is generated at the home or business, and if it’s generated in excess, it’s sold back to the grid. This already happens in dribs and drabs, and is starting to have an impact on the power trading business.<br />
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If enough people generate their own electricity, you don’t really need utilities anymore.<br />
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It’s not hard to see where this is going. The utility companies are going to fight back, hard. But not in the free market—on Capitol Hill.<br />
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If Musk is permitted to succeed—which is a big if—there’ll be no more carbon emissions and a cheap, endless power source.<br />
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This is save the world type stuff. Pretty ambitious. But will it work?<br />
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I can’t say this cynically enough: A lot of it depends on Musk managing the politics....not the engineering.<br />
I owned both Tesla (TSLA) and (SolarCity) SCTY for a time. I traded them pretty well, which doesn’t happen often. I don’t currently own them.<br />
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One thing I love to say: Whenever you have a disruptive innovation, it’s a lot easier to bet against the losers than on the winners. And the utilities are clearly the losers.<br />
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It’s a long term thesis, maybe 20 years, but this is like betting against BlackBerry (RIMM) in 2008—one of those trades that will seem really obvious seven years from now.<br />
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Then again, utilities have never been a growth business. It’s all about the dividends. And stupid dividend investors will hang on to a trade far longer than economic sense dictates. See tobacco.<br />
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I have a hunch that 20 years from now, we won’t be burning coal for electricity. But not because of any government decree, but because the free market will have done what the politicians couldn’t do for themselves: make renewable energy sources cheaper.<br />
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<img alt="" src="" style="float: right; margin: 15px 0 15px 15px;" />One of the stocks that I get the most questions about is Tesla. I’m not sure whether investor interest is due to the gorgeous lines of the Tesla Model S, its amazing high performance engine, the high flying stock, or the energy saving nature of all electric vehicles….. but Tesla is a very popular subject.<br />
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Tesla cars don’t just look fast; they are fast! The Tesla Model S can go from 0 to 60 mph in a stunning 5.9 seconds and travel up to an impressive 319 miles on a single charge.<br />
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The Tesla Model S is shockingly modestly priced by luxury car standards. The basic model has a MSRP of $69,900, but the price tag can quickly escalate to $100,000 with optional add ons. Of course, a cheapskate like me would never pay that much for a car—even an electric car—but lots of status-conscious consumers have.<br />
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And you won’t see me buying Tesla stock either. Even though it’s well off of its 52 week high, it’s still trading for almost 80 times earnings and 29 times book value.<br />
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However, a lot of technology is incorporated into electric vehicles. The most profitable way to invest in electric vehicles is not through Tesla stock, but instead from the industry that makes batteries possible.<br />
I’m talking about lithium, one of the most valuable natural resources of the new electronic world thanks to its unique and extremely valuable characteristics:<br />
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<li>Lithium tolerates heat better than any other solid element, melting at 357°F.</li>
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<li>Lithium batteries offer the best weight-to-energy ratio, making lithium batteries ideal for any application where weight is an issue, such as portable electronics.<br />
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<li>That same high energy density and low weight characteristic makes lithium batteries the best choice for electric/hybrid vehicles due to car gas mileage. A car’s biggest enemy is weight.<br />
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<li>Lithium has a very high electrochemical potential, meaning that it has excellent energy storage capacity.</li>
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Lithium is a key mineral of the future, but there are limited ways to invest in it because unlike other commodities, there is no vehicle to invest in the physical metal.<br />
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On top of that, few options exist to invest in it because the market is dominated by only a handful of producers: Chemical & Mining Company of Chile (SQM); FMC Corp. (FMC); Rockwood Holdings (ROC); and privately held Talison Lithium.<br />
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The Chemical & Mining Company of Chile is primarily a potash fertilizer company; FMC Corp. is a diversified chemical producer with a less than 15% of its revenues from lithium; and Talison is a privately held Chinese company.<br />
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That leaves Rockwood Holdings as the purest play on lithium by a wide margin, with close to a 50% share of the global lithium market. It’s the OPEC of lithium. It’s also trading around $80 a share right now… a lot cheaper than Tesla—the car and the stock!<br />
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Of course, timing is everything, so I’m not suggesting that you rush out and invest in lithium or any of the above stocks tomorrow morning. Instead, wait for my buy signal in <a href="http://www.mauldineconomics.com/go/ufbxk-2/COT"><em>Just One Trade</em></a>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160669357771286375.post-86696731808886328522012-08-23T18:30:00.002-07:002012-08-23T18:32:17.622-07:00Charles Payne gives us a new Green Investment ideaWe all could use some good news in the green investment arena and maybe GTAT is the kind of investment we need to be looking at. FBN’s Charles Payne with his latest tech stock picks.<p></p>
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Lovins estimates this plan will cost $5 trillion less than current costs, and could support a 158% larger economy. Even more, this transition will require no new inventions, no new acts from congress, and no new subsidies. How is this possible?<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160669357771286375.post-73455985481461200972012-08-09T12:48:00.000-07:002012-08-09T12:48:45.715-07:00Swapping Your Light Bulbs with Yuka<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjpBdgy4JnHky6_-8MfpO14AjFMrbni6hOFLvjteArBhoJ50G0UYda532hp06QWA7fhSSjhWP53Z295iMSi-tEj-ChI9NQPTuhbmNH2hL7nucIRZxPba4313UoGAu3szQf6U0zjdpBx3s/s1600/Yuka+Yoneda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjpBdgy4JnHky6_-8MfpO14AjFMrbni6hOFLvjteArBhoJ50G0UYda532hp06QWA7fhSSjhWP53Z295iMSi-tEj-ChI9NQPTuhbmNH2hL7nucIRZxPba4313UoGAu3szQf6U0zjdpBx3s/s1600/Yuka+Yoneda.jpg" /></a></div>You may have heard rumors about a so called ‘light bulb ban’, but do you know the details of what is actually happening and when? The Federal Energy Independence and Securities act is coming to the U.S. in October of 2012 (i.e a few months), and rather than a ban, it is really more of a gradual phase out of outdated, obsolete energy guzzling incandescent bulbs, which encourages retailers to start stocking the latest high tech, low energy light bulbs. Despite the fact that this starts in just a few months, many people still don’t know much about it. <br />
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We consider it our mission at <a href="http://inhabitat.com/" style="color: blue;">Inhabitat</a> to help! A little while ago, we brought you a fun filled article all about this important new federal law, but if for some reason you haven’t read our handy guide yet, or just prefer old fashioned face time, we’ve made it even easier for you to digest the most crucial facts behind the light bulb phase out (what it is, who it affects) with our new video explaining how to swap your bulbs.<br />
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Put the key in the ignition switch and the back door shuts lifting the ramp at the same time. The Kenguru will not start until the wheelchair is in a correct locking position and the door has been fully closed, the security considerations have been fully thought out and implemented with your safety in mind as a priority. What could be simpler?<br />
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Good news since this is the best deal we have ever seen on solar panels being sold to the general public. These kind of prices are making the professional installers groan since this is wholesale to the public or better.<br />
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So if you have been thinking of getting started making your own solar energy now is the time. And if you need help getting started just visit the guys and gals [yes, lot's of ladies over at the site] at <a href="http://doityourselfsolarenergyforum.com/"><span style="color: blue;">the DIY Solar Energy Forum</span></a> and they'll help you get started and help you pick out the rest of your parts.<br />
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Here's the link to pick up some of <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/newworldsolar-20/detail/B007VPQP5Q"><span style="color: blue;">the 145 watt solar panels for just $160 includes free shipping</span></a><br />
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One unique program we are responsible for is a free in home lighting retrofit where we replace up to 25 high use incandescent light bulbs with <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/newworldsolar-20/detail/B007WNP8F0"><span style="color: blue;">Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs</span></a>. In just 18 months we have helped more than 450 homes cut their collective energy costs by $46,000 and avoided 209,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions.<br />
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We raise awareness and serve as a resource for residents interested in deeper energy saving measures through energy assessments, upgrades, and <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/newworldsolar-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=7"><span style="color: #0b5394;">renewable energy sources</span></a>. So far, our efforts have saved CT residents an equivalent of 7,479,121 kilowatt-hours and $904,112, and avoided 6,035,626 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.<br />
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We, the CT Clean Energy Corps, are doing our part to create an America built to last!<br />
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Visit the <a href="http://solarpanelkitatharborfreight.ning.com/"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Harbor Freight 45 Watt Solar Panel Kit Community Forum</span></a>, a great way to get started!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160669357771286375.post-51620744175905946292012-05-30T11:11:00.000-07:002012-05-30T11:11:00.364-07:00Here's the Premier of "Inside Tesla"Tesla is releasing videos in a new series called “Inside Tesla” as we all eagerly await the rolling out of its first deliveries on June 22. The first video, below, was released yesterday, and it included the following in the description: “This series of Tuesday updates is designed to take you behind the scenes of Model S production as we count down the days to our first deliveries.”<br />
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Source: <a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/30/inside-tesla-video-premier/">Clean Technica</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160669357771286375.post-78081816726102354642012-05-01T16:19:00.000-07:002012-05-01T16:19:01.586-07:00Don't Bet Against Biodiesel, says Renewable Energy Group CEODaniel Oh, CEO of Renewable Energy Group, says the biodiesel market is growing as fuel prices move higher.<br />
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