In the second installment of this two-part series, we will focus on solar power, energy storage and battery technologies. President Barack Obama’s challenge during the State of the Union address was to generate 80 percent of the electricity from renewable sources by the year 2035.
In the State of the Union address, a challenge to the US was issued by President Obama, generate 80 percent of electricity with renewable sources. This transformation of the world’s largest energy consumer is truly a monumental task and will take vast resources to achieve. In this two part series, we look at the investment potential of this challenge.
The Critical Metals Investment Symposium in Vancouver, BC featured a wide array of companies and analysts. Two of these speakers, John Kaiser and Jack Lifton, stressed the importance of critical metals in the world economy.
Ca.reuters.com reports that G20 leaders must address bottlenecks in the global supply of rare earth elements.
China’s pollution problems are well documented, and the government has started to show a desire to act on them. The Chinese control 97 percent of the rare earth supply, which is needed for numerous sustainable energy technologies. China could be in the driver’s seat of a new green economy selling not only rare earths, but finished sustainable energy technology.
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