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Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

The Non-Silicon "Solar" Bubble May Be Popping: Reality Finally Catches Up With Thin Film Photovoltaic Solar Cells

March 3, 2009

Analysis of:Solar Panel Drops to $1 per Watt: Is this a Milestone or the Bottom for Silicon-Based Panels? | www.popularmechanics.com

There are two factors, which present obstacles that must be overcome if solar energy conversion is ever to be practical and widespread:   1. The limitations on the availability and/or production of the natural resources needed to manufacture the best currently known technologies, and 2. The comparative economics of "solar" energy conversion and all other alternate energy conversion technologies.

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

Fiscal lithium has now overwhelmed electrochemical lithium as a driver for the electrification of private passenger carrying vehicles.

March 2, 2009

Analysis of:Study Finds That Cars With Large Lithium-Ion Batteries Don't Provide the Best Value | www.allcarselectric.com

The economic meltdown has now exposed the plug-in lithium battery as a power train energy storage device to be far too early in its development and testing to be worth the risk for private capital. This doesn't mean that it should be developed by taxpayer generated funds; it means that we should step back and see just how we should allocate our resources of money, time, and people.

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

The Real Effect of Bankruptcy Talk On GM Sales. It Is GM, Itself, That Can't Get Credit! The Poor Market For Electrified Cars As Measured By Iron V8 Engine Blocks Poured By General Motors.

February 23, 2009

Analysis of:The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal) | commongroundmag.com

General Motors sole remaining iron foundry in Defiance, Ohio, is having two problems: 1. It is having difficulty meeting expanded production schedules for vehicles the production of which is supposedly tanking, and one emblamatic reason is that 2. Its suppliers of pig iron, the necessary raw material, won't give it credit.

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

GM's Management Is Almost Restructured Already. It Just Needs Rick Wagoner To Leave

February 19, 2009

Analysis of:Reactions to Automakers’ Survival Plans | wheels.blogs.nytimes.com

Bob Lutz, A "car Guy" has now resigned as Vice Chairman and product "czar" of General Motors. He has already been replaced by a first class "car guy," more savvy than Lutz, Tom Stephens. Rick Wagoner, a finance guy whose best days are far in the past brought Fritz Henderson in as a finance guy whose best days may well be ahead of him. If the clueless politicians and their Wall Street toadies don't interfere then GM will shortly have a finance guy, Hendersen as CEO and a "car guy," Stephens as his partner to make a try at guiding GM out of the mess that it and the politicians have made of it during the last 25 years and more.

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

Earth Fundamental is A Meaningless Category. The Important Category Of Raw Materials For Any Technology Is "Mining Accessible."

February 18, 2009

Analysis of:Can We Build a Better Battery Without Lithium? | industry.bnet.com

The opacity of the world view of even MIT's materials' scientists is staggering. What exactly is meant by the statement that a natural resource is "earth fundamental?"

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

Requiem For Detroit

February 17, 2009

Analysis of:How the Crash Will Reshape America | www.theatlantic.com

Overlooked in all of the angst over the future of the American OEM automotive industry is the effect this crisis is having on the city of Detroit. The once "Motor City" is now a shambles increasingly unable to maintain a level of basic services, police, fire, utilities and health, to name the most critical, necessary to making it liveable.

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

Wouldn't A Hasty Transition To Renewable Energy Be Hazardous To Our Economic Health?

February 17, 2009

Analysis of:Saudi Oil Minister Warns Against Hasty Transition to Renewable Energy | redgreenandblue.org

Most of us view a Saudi Oil Minister's admonition to beware of a hasty transition to renewable sources of energy to be cynical and self-serving. But the fact is that such a profiund change done in haste would not only destroy the economy of a petrostate such as Saudi Arabia but could also dmage our own severely.

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

For American Natural Resource Production and Development "Buy American" Is a Long Overdue Very Good Excellent Idea

February 6, 2009

Analysis of:The return of economic nationalism | www.economist.com

The economically suicidal stupidity of pretending that China nd India are emerging nations that can simply prohibit the export of natural resources either directly, or by allocation, or by levying export taxes that cause their prices to soar above those of the world market is doing, exactly as the Chinese, for one, intended, it is driving manufacturing requiring those resources along with its associated technology to China and India. Of course, if those same natural resources, were produced in the USA it would safeguard American jobs and technology from forced export, but this simple solution is too confusing for simple minded politicians and self righteous protectors of the environment who value trees above the quality of life of those who they seem to consider, by their actions,  the lower classes.

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

Can The Rest Of The World Achieve The American Standard Of Living, Ever, With the Natural Resources We Have?

February 6, 2009

Analysis of:Change must be more than political if we're to survive | www.explorehoward.com

At the rate of production achieved for base, precious, and minor metals in 2007, the most productive year in history for new metal production it would not be possible, even if the population were to remain static, to produce enough raw materials and maintain the current production of energy from non--renewable resources to provide sufficient raw materials to give everyone on earth the same material standard of living as is currently enjoyed by the average American in less than fifty years. The problem is that only incremental increases in production can be achieved now with the extarction and refining technologies we have. Private capital may not be large enough to tackle mining in or under the sea or mining much lower gradse than we do now.

Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC

A Nobel Prize Winner Flunks History

February 5, 2009

Analysis of:California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. energy secretary warns | www.latimes.com

California has perhaps 400 times as many people today as it did in 1800 Its farms and vineyards and its cities have been won from the desert at great cost and with great engineering and overcoming of climate adversity. Only an academic with his head in the clouds could fail to see that Californians will adapt to any climate change just as they have done before.

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