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Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC
February 18, 2009
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?"
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Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC
February 17, 2009
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.
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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
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.
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Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC
February 6, 2009
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.
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Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC
February 6, 2009
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.
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Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC
A Nobel Prize Winner Flunks History
February 5, 2009
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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Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC
Tesla, As An Example, May be Small Enough But Chrysler is Not Small Enough To Survive With No Sales
February 4, 2009
Chrysler sales plunge 55 pct; GM, Toyota also down | www.forbes.com
The UAW never foresaw this situation, so it has made the fixed cost for an OEM car maker so high that the company simply cannot survive without sales. In the distant past glory days of the OEM American automotive industry the managers could face down the union and try to "break the union" by locking it out until the men might literally begin to starve. Then we got, deservedly so, the Union, unemployment compensation, and pensions, healthcare and life insurance, and even social security. The bosses then took another tack; they simply gave the workers whatever they asked for and passed the costs on to their customers. There was no competition then; there was a monopoly as Mr. Tucker found out and later Mr. DeLorean found out also. Now we have competition keeping the prices down and the Unions asking for more and more, so are we at the end game? No siree now the benevolent government is sudsidizing a new round of "bankrupt the country" by supporting near zombie companies.
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Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC
Ford's Management Is Far More Competent And Engineering Savvy Than GM's
February 3, 2009
Ford to build plug-in in 2012 It is to make 5,000 a year; utilities are to test version of Escape | www.freep.com
Boeing is holding up the rollout of its next generation fuel efficient "Dreamliner" because it isn't yet a fully integrated system; i.e., some of the parts are not yet finalized. They have been designed, delivered, and installed, but they didn't perform as requested, so they have been sent back for redesign, redelivery, and restesting in actual conditions. General Motors, as if by contrast, took the word of a few academic battery researchers, just a couple of years ago, that, since theoretically a battery based on lithium ion chemistry should outperform all other battery technologies based on higher atomic weight elements such as nickel and lead, they should simply announce that such a battery "would" be built and installed in a car made by them. It, the theoretical construct, would then become a game changer. No one at Boeing could possibly be dumb enough to bet their company on such airy-fairy nonsense. It took a GM to do that. Ford is now doing as Boeing would do.
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Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC
February 2, 2009
James Hansen’s Former NASA Supervisor Declares Himself a Skeptic - Says Hansen ‘Embarrassed NASA’, ‘Was Never Muzzled’, & Models ‘Useless’ | wattsupwiththat.com
Respected and credentialed scientists have begun to speak out on anthropogenic global warming as an example of poor science, at best unproven and at worst wrong or even fraudulent.
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Jack LiftonCo-founder and DirectorTechnology Metals Research, LLC
There May Well be A Good Reason To Keep GM, Chrysler, And Ford Alive Through The Worldwide Recession
January 28, 2009
44% Say Global Warming Due To Planetary Trends, Not People | www.rasmussenreports.com
I have not been shy about expressing my opinion that GM and Chrysler need to go bankrupt immediately if they are to have any hope of surviving. The question is: What, of value to anyone, might survive a GM and Chrysler bankruptcy? The answer is that there is still time to salvage the engineering skills and continuity from a century of designing, engineering, and building nearly a billion motor vehicles.
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