Steven Chu

• How Exporting LNG Could Bring Serious Wealth to the US

  By Keith Schaefer  |  April 9, 2012

  Where will the wealth created by the fast growing Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) market be concentrated in the coming years? In a word – Australia. It’s the #4 exporter of LNG in the world already, and seven new plants are in various stages of planning and development.

• Rick Mills: Winning Race to Feed a Power-Hungry World

  By Brian Sylvester  |  July 1, 2011

  As potash prices reach their highest levels, uranium prices have suffered. But the host of Ahead of the Herd online and editor of the Ahead of the Herd newsletter believes the prospects for both industries are bright.

• Strategic Oil Release Will Not Hurt Clean Energy Progress

  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.

• The Civil Nuclear Energy Renaissance

  By Richard (Rick) Mills  |  June 8, 2011

  Concerns about climate change, carbon footprints, energy security and the rising cost of fossil fuels spurred a revival of interest in nuclear power generation in early 2010 and a global civil nuclear renaissance but it derailed with Fukushima-Daiichi.

• Uranium Report 2011

  By Richard (Rick) Mills  |  January 27, 2011

  Increasingly we see countries ensuring their own industries have first rights to internally produced commodities. If any country is to end dependence on foreign supplied fossil fuels and reduce its carbon footprint it will have to develop uranium.

• The Great Race for Battery Technology

  By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader  |  December 23, 2010

  Consumers were ultimate winners as technologies the space program fathered pushed standards of living up. I bet that's how this contest ends as well. The question is whether operating instructions will come in English - or Mandarin.

• US Energy Department Picks Five Critical REEs

  By Philip Burgert  |  December 15, 2010

  Five rare earth elements have been identified by the US Department of Energy along with indium as the most critical metals for clean energy technologies and supply risk.

• The Skinny on Lithium

  By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader  |  August 6, 2010

  The intelligent way to approach the industry now is to invest in low cost producers of proven battery technology.