[snakeoil]

http://www.corporateknights.com/channel ... ing-point/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A bit technical but a look ahead at the near future. BUT...Watch Congress give someone a license to put a meter on the sun!

Just last week, Dyson, the company known for its bagless vacuum cleaners, invested $15 million in a battery startup called Sakti3, which was spun out of the University of Michigan and counts General Motors as its first strategic investor.

Sakti3 has developed a solid-state lithium battery, meaning the battery’s electrolyte is a solid, not a liquid as in conventional lithium-ion systems. It’s safer and more durable than conventional batteries, and it boasts energy densities that are double what the best lithium-ion batteries can offer today.

Damn, I love technology.

[RealJustme]

Eveready already has a battery that has real carbon zinc on the market.

[tvd]

I have been expecting lithium as a commodity to take off on the markets.
But, it just sits there. No appreciable movement.

Watch LIT, an ETF. Global X Lithium. It is sitting around 11.50.
It is low now, compared to past history.

Once the scientists get their battery chemistry perfected, and this overheat problem resolved....I bet it goes high.

http://www.fool.com/quote/nysemkt/globa ... um-etf/lit

[elklindo69]

UT OH....TVD is speculating in lithium mining company stocks.

Perhaps you should invest in water company stocks if you think California will be running out of water in the next year. Perhaps you should start doing your due dilligence in Badger Meter (BMI). You do know what 'due dilligence' is, right...

:lol:

[johnforbes]

Elkin, a Pole, has been a pole-dancer.

And his postings are at the opposite polarity from rationality.

[tvd]

UT OH....TVD is speculating in lithium mining company stocks.

Perhaps you should invest in water company stocks if you think California will be running out of water in the next year. Perhaps you should start doing your due dilligence in Badger Meter (BMI). You do know what 'due dilligence' is, right...

:lol:

Huh.....shows your reading cmprehension. I never said that I think Cal will run out of water.
I pointed out the sources that said it, and will be watchng closely for the next year as their Chcken Little predictions fall far short.

[Clownkicker]

So, you don't like it when someone puts words into YOUR mouth, tvd?

What a surprise...

[johnforbes]

Clownslacker's battery postings give us all a charge.

[tvd]

So, you don't like it when someone puts words into YOUR mouth, tvd?

What a surprise...

No, I don't like it when posted in plain English, the fucker cannot even read or comprehend.

[johnforbes]

On battery threads, Clownhicker stands ever ready to post dumb remarks.

[Clownkicker]

"No, I don't like it when posted in plain English, the fucker cannot even read or comprehend."-tvd

And yet you do the very same thing and think nothing of it.

"But, no, no, no, says Clown. I am being led by my handlers.....that is not waste, that is a job provided by the government that is employing those that would otherwise be unemployed. That "waste is a good thing". That's good waste, dudes."-tvd

^^^^Remember this a few days ago, tvd?
I said nothing of the sort. My posts were right in front of you in plain English and you neither read nor comprehended what I posted.
So why so upset at him for just doing what you do?

[johnforbes]

Even if AAA came out to Clowntoker's junk car, a 1956 Dodge with slushomatic transmission, they could not jump-start Clownhacker's reasoning.

[tvd]

"No, I don't like it when posted in plain English, the fucker cannot even read or comprehend."-tvd

And yet you do the very same thing and think nothing of it.

"But, no, no, no, says Clown. I am being led by my handlers.....that is not waste, that is a job provided by the government that is employing those that would otherwise be unemployed. That "waste is a good thing". That's good waste, dudes."-tvd

^^^^Remember this a few days ago, tvd?
I said nothing of the sort. My posts were right in front of you in plain English and you neither read nor comprehended what I posted.
So why so upset at him for just doing what you do?

I know you never said that. That was my "prediction" of how I would certainly have expected you to answer. Those ARE your viewpoints regarding the subject, no?

Had I not jumped in there , I am absolutely sure you would have responded in such fashion.

Now, I can see the point is very close. The nuance is a tight shave. But, in the past, I was pointing out waste by my local government, regarding the replacement (ad nauseum) of the sod on the sides of the roads down here, I suggested that the job could be done with fewer people, and less often, and what did you say? Something in the lines of "But that would kill jobs..." Something like that. It has been a long time.
But I know it was you, I am sure of it, because it got me started seriously thinking on that point....was there any validity to it, etc. It was you.

[Clownkicker]

Doesn't sound like me, tvd.
I am not usually concerned about "killing jobs" per se.

I also drive past city or county crews with two or three people standing around doing nothing. I don't have much sympathy for it. And since I have worked that sort of job in the past, I know that several of the guys there are superfluous anyway, or just plain lazy.

Seriously, I doubt I said it. I would fire the lot of them.

As to the VA, I don't know much about it nationally. I mostly go on what veterans themselves say about it.
And in the case of veterans, I am less picky than usual about wasted money, as long as the care they receive is good.
There is a lot of far more egregious waste in other parts of government.
I know from personal experience that the care received by the vets in my family is "above and beyond."

One nephew received something like 15 surgeries (several of them the '12 hour' type, and all the physical therapy to go with it) to rebuild his legs when he laid his bike down at high speed on a road in Germany and slammed into a metal post. (He would have died there if a friend, a medic, wasn't (by chance) two minutes behind him on the same road.) The likely alternative in a civilian hospital was amputation. Now he walks (slightly awkwardly) without needing even a cane. It was a brutal two years but it's still hard for me to believe the state-of-the-art care he received.
Another example is a brother (retired Navy) was in an Army hospital a few years ago for a chronic problem and while I was there the General running the hospital complex personally came to his room to talk for five minutes and ask if there was anything he needed. He was actually concerned about the patients in his hospital. I left with my jaw open.
My father also got very good care.
My family has always been exceptionally well cared for as veterans. For that I cut Uncle Sam a lot of slack.

[RealJustme]

I also drive past city or county crews with two or three people standing around doing nothing.

So they're free, they're paid with tax money.

[elklindo69]

So, you don't like it when someone puts words into YOUR mouth, tvd?

What a surprise...

No, I don't like it when posted in plain English, the fucker cannot even read or comprehend.

Please come on...

You're so full of shit and such a hypocrite it's not even funny.

LMAO