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By Leo Liu |
March 19, 2012
During the period of 2007‐2011, electricity consumption in Mongolia increased on an average 6% per year. However, the Ministry of Mineral Resource of Mongolia estimates that overall electricity demand is expected to grow at 14% in the future.
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By Brian Sylvester |
January 2, 2012
The author of the Big Picture Speculator says new technologies offer the industry and investors profitable opportunities as shale gas, shale oil and enhanced oil recovery are true "game changers."
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By Gregor Macdonald |
November 23, 2011
In the new oil cycle, a debt crisis is no longer solvable with growth. Devaluation or jubilee are the only options. The loss to society will be borne most directly by those who hold sovereign debt as their savings. The time of containment is over.
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By Chris Munford |
August 15, 2011
In the 1970s, it was Three Mile Island. In the 80's it was Chernobyl. Now it's Fukushima. Each time, the viability of nuclear power was called into question and the uranium industry took a hit
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
July 11, 2011
The path Germany could be compelled to take is to import more and more electricity - either in the form of nuclear power from France and the Czech Republic, coal from Poland or natural gas from Russia.
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By Jeb Handwerger |
June 28, 2011
Increasing the supply of oil may be pushing down the demand for rare earths, uranium and lithium only short term. This decline in oil prices should not drastically hurt the development of rare earth assets outside China.
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By Martin Hutchinson |
June 8, 2011
Nuclear power was gaining a lot of momentum prior to the terrible disaster at Japan's Fukushima power plant in March. But since then, atomic energy has come under increased scrutiny and once again drawn the ire of environmentalists.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
April 13, 2011
China is in serious trouble. That is the conclusion of Dr. George Friedman, president of Stratfor, a geopolitical strategy consulting firm. While it has had a great 30 year run, that performance will not extrapolate 30 years into the future.
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By Ilya Spivak |
March 23, 2011
Opposing forces are battling for control over gold price action as sentiment looks for direction while the recent bout of US dollar weakness put silver prices on a parallel track with risk appetite trends.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
February 22, 2011
It has been a long wait for "peak oilers," whose passionate belief is that the world will run out of oil in coming years, sending prices through the roof.
