Simon Harlow

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• Trump Could Fuel A Nuclear Energy Boom In 2017

  Published 06 December 2016 | viewed 59,794 times

  With Trump at the helm, sentiment gives way to practicality in the energy industry. For the vast untapped potential of the nuclear energy industry and…

• Why Mexico’s Oil Reform Is A Huge Opportunity For Investors

  Published 21 November 2016 | viewed 42,168 times

  When a massive country de-nationalizes its entire energy sector and opens its oil and gas doors for the first time ever to foreign companies, the…

• Tesla, Apple and Uber Push Lithium Prices Even Higher

  Published 17 October 2016 | viewed 43,295 times

  After more than tripling in price this year, Lithium is no longer that dull commodity we take for granted in our consumer electronics: It’s the…

• Frack Sand: The Unsung Hero Of The OPEC Oil War

  Published 19 September 2016 | viewed 35,122 times

  The late-2014, Saudi-initiated oil-price war may have taken the ‘boom’ out of the US shale industry as it seriously threatened OPEC market share, but Saudi…

• Why Lithium Will See Another Price Spike This Fall

  Published 18 July 2016 | viewed 58,186 times

  So far, lithium has been the hottest metal of 2016, beating out gold, with exponential demand expected over the coming years. Although the price trajectory…

• Bill Gates And Other Billionaires Backing A Nuclear Renaissance

  Published 06 July 2016 | viewed 71,571 times

  Let’s for a second imagine a world without nuclear energy. That’s a tough one but let’s try. No nuclear bombs, of course, no Chernobyl and…

• Potash Price Surge Could Lead To Higher Food Costs For Billions

  Published 23 June 2016 | viewed 28,619 times

  We are on the precipice of a food fight among 7 billion people, and potash will be right at the center of it. If you…

• Move Over Oil – Lithium Is The Future Of Transportation

  Published 21 June 2016 | viewed 39,831 times

  Just a few years ago, we would have scoffed at the idea that electric vehicles could be mainstream anytime soon, or that the global appetite…

• Uranium Prices Set To Double By 2018

  Published 14 June 2016 | viewed 61,738 times

  With prices set to double by 2018, we’ve seen the bottom of the uranium market, and the negative sentiment that has followed this resource around…

• Billionaire Investors Back A Gold Price Rally In 2016

  Published 08 June 2016 | viewed 34,421 times

  It wasn’t so long ago that some of the more famous investor gurus were shrugging off gold as nothing more than shiny trinkets with no…

• Lithium War Heats Up After Epic Launch Of Tesla Model 3

  Published 19 April 2016 | viewed 32,607 times

  The unveiling of Tesla’s Model 3 electric car was no less than the lifting of the final curtain on a game-changing energy revolution. And if…

• Tesla And Other Tech Giants Scramble For Lithium As Prices Double

  Published 12 April 2016 | viewed 89,933 times

  Demand for lithium—the hottest commodity on the planet and the only commodity to show positive price movement in 2015—is poised to continue on its upward…

• Electric Car War Sends Lithium Prices Sky High

  Published 23 February 2016 | viewed 27,426 times

  With lithium prices skyrocketing beyond wildest expectations, talk heating up about acquisitions and mergers in this space and a fast-brewing war among electric car rivals,…

• Lithium Market Set To Explode – All Eyes Are On Nevada

  Published 06 October 2015 | viewed 32,011 times

  While other commodities are floundering or completely collapsing in this market, lithium—the critical mineral in the emerging battery gigafactory war—is poised to explode, and going…

• Warren Buffett And Elon Musk To Spark A Lithium Boom

  Published 28 July 2015 | viewed 43,160 times

  The age of electrification across the transportation sector, the solar panel revolution, and Tesla’s battery gigafactory are igniting a battle for the cheapest battery. That…

• OPEC, Get Ready For The Second U.S. Oil Boom

  Published 13 July 2015 | viewed 43,726 times

  What OPEC countries fear most is a follow-up technological revolution that will lead to a second oil boom in the U.S., and that fear is…

• Follow The Sand To The Real Fracking Boom

  Published 24 November 2014 | viewed 30,062 times

  When it takes up to four million pounds of sand to frack a single well, it’s no wonder that demand is outpacing supply and frack…

• New Technology Could End The Debate Over Pipeline Safety

  Published 27 August 2014 | viewed 29,442 times

  Who could have ever imagined that North America would surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas liquids? A decade…

• The Big Winners in Kenya’s Oil Debut

  Published 17 October 2013 | viewed 25,065 times

  Kenya will start pumping its first commercial oil next year and begin exporting in 2016, but this is just the opening salvo: new discoveries in…

• No More Spills? New Technology Could Transform the Pipeline Sector

  Published 06 August 2013 | viewed 30,829 times

  The 2010 Kalamazoo spill and the 2013 Exxon leak in Arkansas are the most glaring incidents, but these are just the big leaks that are…