Juggling Dynamite

The innovations in energy storage are coming so fast and furious it is hard to keep ‘current’ (little humor).  Science-fantasy concepts are becoming reality every week in things like graphene batteries (graphene is an eco-friendly, sustainable, sheet of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice pattern with astonishing attributes, pictured below) and Supercapacitors, also known as EDLC (electric double-layer capacitor) or Ultra-capacitors that can store previously unimaginable amounts of energy.  The race is on hyperdrive.  Very exciting.  See,  Australia co LWP takes 50% stake in graphene battery technology:

“When compared to a Tesla 85-kWh lithium-ion battery for electric vehicles, the aluminum-graphene-oxygen battery offer 15% more power, while occupying 54% less space and being 30% lighter. Its life is nearly twice as long and the estimated cost is about 50% below that of li-ion batteries, says LWP’s press release.”

Link all these on-site storage tools into inter-continental grids that continually absorb and disperse all forms of sustainable, clean energy far and wide, and the question becomes, ‘what energy problem?’

On line retailers are upending bricks and mortar stores and commercial realty markets…on site printing will upend pretty much everything.  From retailers to wholesalers, warehousing, packaging, transport, labor, capital flows and international trade, all while bringing massive savings to consumers and the environment.  The future will be different than anything most can imagine.  This is happening.

Watch: Forget shopping. Now you will download your new clothes.

We can also make all sorts of useful products from recaptured carbon from our atmosphere. From food to fertilizers, fuel, and construction materials like cement, graphene, nanotubes, and carbon fiber. Luckily while naysayers waste time and energy, smart minds are focused on solutions every day.  See Carbon to cupcakes: 6 amazing things we can create from carbon dioxide:

Dr. Marcius Extavour is the Director of Technical Operations of the $20 Million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, a competition designed to showcase new ways to transform carbon dioxide into materials we can use, instead of allowing it to escape into the atmosphere. Registration deadline is July 15th, 2016. Form or join a team today!

Also see: Super-materials: The foundation of the future.

Today the Wall Street Journal runs with 5 things you should know about IEX:

IEX Group Inc. is likely to win approval to launch a new stock exchange when the Securities and Exchange Commission’s three members vote Friday on its controversial application. IEX’s unique design, which it says favors the needs of long-term investors, has divided Wall Street and antagonized competitors such as the New York Stock Exchange, which lobbied against IEX and pressured the SEC to deny full approval to IEX. Here are five things you should know about IEX.

In point 5, the article offers a list of early investors and advocates who it says will be “big winners” if the IEX wins SEC approval tomorrow. But the article fails to make mention of the biggest winners of all: legitimate investors trying to ‘invest’ rather than cheaters gaming and skimming legitimate investor flows. This comparative list remedies that oversight.

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— Eric Scott Hunsader (@nanexllc) June 16, 2016