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Graphene Batteries Could Revolutionize the Electric Vehicle Industry

December 4, 2022 By admin Leave a Comment

In this Article:

  • Fires Caused by Malfunctioning Batteries
  • A Light at the End of the Tunnel?
  • Did Graphene Come From Area 51?
  • From Concept to Production Line
  • The Cheapest Stock Trading Today?

You have, no doubt, heard already about the veritable epidemic of lithium battery fires that's been sweeping the nation in the past few weeks.

Fires caused by malfunctioning batteries are not news. New York City has at least 200 such fires every year — most of them triggered by the city's 25,000 e-bikes, available for rent via various mobile apps.

But a few weeks back, one such fire nearly destroyed an upscale high-rise in Manhattan's Midtown East neighborhood.

Firefighters responded, pulling dozens from the burning building located at 429 E. 52nd Street. When all was said and done, two were critically injured as almost an entire floor of the high-rise was engulfed in flames.

Like I said, this isn't a new thing, but this latest event was enough to send the New York City council into an emergency meeting for the sole purpose of controlling the city's lithium-ion battery secondary market.

Several other cities across the country followed suit in the days that followed, having tackled their own lithium fire problems for years.

But as lithium-fed fires raged on the east coast, we were getting a glimpse of the future from the other side of the continent.

A Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Last week, researchers at a company based in Southern California did something most of us can only dream of doing to a rechargeable battery — they shot it with a rifle.

The projectile, traveling at almost 3,000 feet per second, perforated an experimental new battery with no problem.

Alongside it, a standard lithium-ion battery was subjected to the same treatment.

The traditional battery instantly burst into flames — not surprising, as many lithium batteries do that with no provocation whatsoever.

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The new battery however, didn't just fail to combust, but it actually continued to function as designed.

This experimental new battery featured a new material not found in today's mass-produced rechargeable batteries: graphene.

With the thickness of a single molecule and heat conduction properties unmatched by anything known to man, graphene is a wonder of the modern world.

Discovered at the start of the 21st century, it's so new that its two key researchers, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work back in 2010.

Did Graphene Come From Area 51?

Graphene boasts some other characteristics that will raise your eyebrows. It's lighter than paper yet 200 times stronger than steel.

It's almost invisible.

A sheet of it big enough to cover a football field weighs less than a gram.

It was also extremely expensive to produce, making it little more than a science project… until another company — this one based in the Eastern Australian province of Queensland — figured out a way to mass-produce it for just pennies on the dollar.

This new process, requiring only natural gas and electricity, was the final missing puzzle piece.

The company behind this new production process is a high-tech materials company, but very soon, it could become the biggest name in rechargeable power storage solutions.

You see, its graphene battery is in the final development stages before full-scale commercialization.

The batteries are already rolling off the assembly lines and getting shipped to prospective client firms for testing.

From Concept to Production Line

If reality comes anywhere near expectations, then this may well be the end of the lithium-ion market as we know it.

The new graphene batteries will have up to five times the life span in terms of charge/discharge cycles.

They will have up to three times the charge capacity.

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And, most important of all by a long shot, they will charge up to 70 times as fast.

Just imagine charging your Tesla in less than a minute and not charging it again for the next 1,000–1,500 miles.

Imagine the battery pack not just outlasting the car, but outlasting you, on its way to a final odometer reading of over 1 million miles.

That's the sort of future that graphene has presented to the world, and it's all in the hands of a single Australian firm.

With prospects that huge, how would you value a company that holds the patents to this process and the products it makes possible?

$10 billion? Maybe $100 billion?

Not even close.

The Cheapest Stock Trading Today?

As of this morning, this Australian company's stock, which is already trading in North America on two major exchanges, was trading hands at a market capitalization of less than USD$200 million.

That's less than 1/1,000th the size of what the lithium-ion battery market is expected to be worth by the end of the decade.

And yet this company has the power to wipe lithium off the economic map.

Put all of these factors together and you get one conclusion: This may be the biggest inefficiency, and the biggest bargain, available anywhere in the public markets today.

I've been following this story for months now, and I'm convinced that it could be the biggest discovery of my career.

Fortune favors the bold,

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Big News for the Next Generation of Electric Vehicle Batteries

September 21, 2022 By admin Leave a Comment

In this Article

  • Backlog of container ships is dropping…
  • A new player enters the fray to power EVs…
  • eVTOL technology continues gaining momentum…
  • Starlink goes live in Antarctica…

It’s been a while since we had a look at the backlog of container ships waiting to unload their cargo at the Port of Los Angeles. The Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles, and San Francisco for that matter, looked like a parking lot during the pandemic… I saw it with my own eyes flying overhead to/from the West Coast.

I thought it might be interesting for us to check in and see what things are like today…

Not surprisingly, there has been a long decline in the queue of container ships since February of this year. The pandemic is clearly over, and logistics teams got back to work clearing out containers on the dock and returning to more normal operations.

August was still busy, with a queue of about 25 ships, but what happened in the last few weeks has been striking. At the start of this month, the queue had dropped to just eight ships, an all-time record low.

That might sound like a good thing. After all, the queue was a symptom of the lack of labor to both unload containers from ships, clear those containers through customs, and haul them out of the port via trucks to distribution centers. Finally, it appears that this backlog has cleared… which means that lead times for goods coming from Asia should quickly return back to pre-pandemic levels.

But the busy August masked what’s really going on. Container imports to the U.S. have collapsed 36% year-over-year. The rapid decline began in May, and it’s really starting to show in the numbers.

What does it mean? There’s an excess in inventories in consumer goods in the U.S., which make up more than 75% of all imports. With “real” inflation much higher than the consumer price index (CPI), discretionary spending has collapsed… and with it, demand.

Imports are suffering as a result. And it’s easy to see the weakening economy now that the Port of Los Angeles has cleared out its container backlog. There’s no hiding it now.

Sadly, even with excess inventories and rapidly declining freight costs, prices for goods and services will remain at elevated levels well into 2023. But on the bright side, the days of 6-month lead times, or not being able to find that PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X, should be well behind us.

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A new player enters the fray to power EVs…

A very interesting company in Utah just came out of stealth mode – Ionic Mineral Technologies. This one caught my eye because it could be big news for the next generation of electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

Ionic Mineral Technologies mines halloysite – a mineral it uses to produce “nano-silicon.”

That’s possible because halloysite is an aluminum-silicate clay that naturally occurs with a nano-tubular structure. This quality makes it a great resource for producing high-quality nano-silicon as a material input for EV batteries.

We’ve written a lot in The Bleeding Edge about solid-state batteries. There is an extensive list of companies working on that technology. And most design their batteries with silicon anodes instead of graphite ones (the typical approach for lithium-ion batteries).

This is important for two big reasons…

First, compared to graphite, silicon anodes provide greater energy density (i.e., charge capacity).

This is key for solving a major issue holding back EV ownership – limited range. Silicon anodes enable people to travel further with these batteries before needing to recharge.

And second, a big EV owner complaint is the 30-45 minutes it takes for their cars to charge. The reality is that most EV owners don’t have access to a 240-volt charger at their home or apartment.

With silicon anode batteries, it’s possible to charge an EV to 80% capacity in about five minutes… a fraction of the time.

But these silicon anodes aren’t perfect. They suffer one major challenge. Silicon swells and contracts during the charge and discharge stages. And dendrites are formed during this process which can, in the worst case, lead to fires.

That’s where Ionic comes into play. It believes its nano-silicon will be a game changer with solid-state batteries. This nano-silicon material has the potential to address this swelling problem.

That’s why I’m going to be keeping an eye on Ionic. I’ll be watching in particular to see if any of the leading-edge EV battery companies begin to adopt the nano-silicon material.

Ionic is unique in that it owns the resource for producing nano-silicon. The company controls 2.4 million tons of halloysite resources in Utah. This is the world’s largest deposit of high-purity halloysite.

The company expects its Utah-based manufacturing plant will be up and running by the end of Q2 next year. Then it will have the capacity to produce tens of thousands of tons of nano-silicon a year that it can sell to battery makers.

And since Ionic is building its plant on U.S. soil, this will help domestic supply chains secure materials. It’s yet another piece in the Great Recalibration I’ve been writing about in these pages, and it’s potentially great news for domestic EV makers.

So this company could be revolutionary for solid-state EV batteries, especially if designs start incorporating its nano-silicon material.

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eVTOL technology continues gaining momentum…

We’ll continue with another frequent topic in these pages – electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs).

United Airlines just stepped up and made a firm commitment for purchasing more electric air taxis.

Last year, we covered its $1 billion order for eVTOLs from Archer Aviation. This August, United paid out $10 million of that payment for the first 100 eVTOLs from Archer Aviation.

Well, now United is upping the ante for its electric air taxi fleet. The airline just ordered another 200 taxis from Eve Air Mobility, with an option to buy 200 more.

This order came as United invested $15 million into Eve Air. So it clearly sees something it likes… and is hedging its bets.

Now, keep in mind that this is not a recommendation for Eve Air (EVEX). Currently, it has an enterprise value of $2.9 billion, yet it’s years away from any kind of material revenue. It’s currently trading at a valuation that reflects about 63 times forward 2025 annual revenue estimates. And it’s going to be bleeding cash until that time. It will most certainly require additional financing that will further dilute shareholders.

So while this isn’t an interesting investment opportunity right now, it is still a company to watch. Major airlines are pairing up with their eVTOL partners in preparation for what they believe is coming.

The future of transportation includes how air transportation is changing. It’s not just about supersonic aircraft like the kind of technology that Boom Supersonic is pursuing. It’s also about the kinds of short hops that eVTOLs can support.

These air taxis can carry three or four passengers about 150 miles. This could enable people to commute to work from a rural area into a city.

Or people could use them to travel from one part of a city to another. Los Angeles or New York City are perfect examples. They have so much traffic, it can be miserable and inefficient getting around.

So people could opt for eVTOLs for convenience in congested cities. We could take an eVTOL right to JFK airport, bypassing all the traffic.

And these electric vehicles are emission-free, which will make them attractive to some. Once we have clean energy generation to power them, these aircraft could be a “green” option for transportation.

Regardless, this is yet another example of the gaining momentum in eVTOL technology. We’ve come a long way in a few short years…

And it won’t be long until we could start seeing more of these aircraft in the skies where we live. I doubt we’ll have to wait much longer than 2025-2026 before there is widespread use of this technology.

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Starlink goes live in Antarctica…

A couple weeks ago, we had another look at Starlink – a division of SpaceX – partnering with T-Mobile in enabling remote cell phone coverage.

Now, Starlink has launched service availability in all seven continents.

That’s because its service just arrived at McMurdo Station on the coast of Antarctica, delivering high-speed broadband to the outpost.

That’s huge because McMurdo historically hasn’t had enough bandwidth to run all its scientific programs. Internet bandwidth has been rationed and in high demand at such a remote location.

What’s interesting about the deployment in Antarctica isn’t just Starlink’s availability. It’s actually how SpaceX is making it happen.

The issue at hand is that there aren’t any ground stations connected to fiber optic networks in Antarctica. So SpaceX is accomplishing this high speed broadband internet connection using space lasers. Cool, right? The lasers allow for high-speed connections between satellites.

So rather than beaming up from a ground station to a Starlink satellite and back down to Antarctica, Starlink uses space lasers to send data back and forth between other Starlink satellites until it is in range of a ground station (for example in Australia).

While the world sees Starlink has a satellite-based internet provider, I believe that the endgame is to create a space-based, interplanetary, body backhaul network. That’s the big play.

The backhaul network is only possible with a laser-enabled communication system from satellite to satellite. That way, Starlink will need fewer ground stations and be able to provide coverage to places where ground stations aren’t an option or simply don’t make any sense.

Is this the beginning of interstellar broadband infrastructure? Musk is crazy enough, and smart enough, to put something like that together.

This will be a vast improvement for people who live in rural areas and developing countries – as well as remote locations like Antarctica… or even the Moon. And needless to say, it will put Starlink and SpaceX in an enviable position.

Regards,

Jeff Brown
Editor, The Bleeding Edge.

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Filed Under: Future Tech Tagged With: Archer Aviation, Batteries, clean energy, CPI, Electric Vehicles, energy storage, Eve Air, eVTOL, Graphene, Ionic Mineral Technologies, Jeff Brown, lithium, Solid State Batteries, SpaceX, Starlink, Supply Chain, United Airlines

New Battery Tech Could Spell End for Lithium Industry

September 13, 2022 By admin Leave a Comment

In this Article

  • A Double-Edged Sword
  • Is Lithium Already Dead?
  • To Gain the Most, Buy Early
  • The Best-Kept Secret in Tech?

With the electric vehicle market, the consumer wireless tech market, and the distributed energy storage market all set to explode in the next decade, it's only natural that the element they all depend on — lithium — will see a commensurate increase in demand.

That increase, based on industry analysts' best estimates, will amount to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.9%.

Pretty dramatic to anybody well versed in growth rates, and enough to bring the total market value to around $120 billion annually by the end of this decade.

That makes lithium in all of its formats, ranging from exploration to lithium-ion battery production, one of today's most sought-after investments.

Tech-, resource-, and energy-minded investors are all piling into this space as we watch and wait for the world to gradually transition to an electron-fueled economy.

But what few investors know, and what few people outside the scientific and engineering community are aware of, is that this lithium revolution is already being questioned.

You see, lithium, for all of its benefits, also comes with some substantial drawbacks.

A Double-Edged Sword

It's tough to mine, it's highly taxing on the environment to extract and refine, and, perhaps worst of all, most of today's richest lithium-bearing properties are owned and operated by one of the Western world's most hostile political powers — the Communist Party of China (CCP).

This isn't surprising or shocking to anybody who follows the industry, as the CCP has been planning for the lithium revolution for decades, quietly buying up lithium exploration around the globe, from Asia to South America.

And their grip on the industry has tightened. Today 148 of the world's 200 biggest lithium-ion battery producing factories are now located in mainland China, compared with just 11 in the U.S., and 20 in Europe.

Even EV giant Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) gets most of its batteries from Asia, despite all the hype regarding “gigafactories” and market dominance you may be hearing from Elon Musk on Twitter.

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In the years to come, Chinese influence over the lithium industry will only increase as the country charges toward its ultimate goal: a global lithium battery monopoly.

If it achieves this end, no war with the West will be necessary. China will have all the cards and all the power over tomorrow's economy.

Everything from your car to your smartphone will be powered by products with “Made in China” stamped across the housing.

Needless to say, the industry is scrambling to find a solution, and herein lies the secret that I alluded to earlier.

Is Lithium Already Dead?

Right now, there's a new battery technology that's on the rise, and it has the potential to destroy the lithium industry altogether.

The material at the heart of these next-generation batteries doesn't need to be mined or refined. It's produced artificially in high-tech laboratories, and the end result is a battery that's vastly superior on a technical level, not to mention completely independent of Chinese influence.

That material is called graphene. It's a high-tech nanostructure that's just one molecule thick and can be made using nothing more than natural gas and electricity.

Two hundred times stronger than steel, light as a feather, and highly conductive of both heat and electricity, this fabric has properties that make it almost extraterrestrial in nature.

When applied to a battery's cathode, the results are truly disruptive. 

Graphene-ion batteries have a much higher energy density than lithium-ion, a longer service life, and a much, much faster charge time.

To translate these factors into meaningful numbers, a Tesla with a graphene battery pack would have a range of up to 1,000 miles, last for over 1 million miles, and charge from 0% to 100% in as little as one minute.

You read that correctly. A full charge in less time than it would take to fill up a gas tank.

That's a game-changer and just one of the reasons why the CAGR for graphene batteries has been pegged at right around 28% through the end of the decade.

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To Gain the Most, Buy Early

That's almost three times the growth rate of lithium.

Now, to be clear, the graphene battery industry is just starting out.

In fact, there's only one company that's really producing any at all at the moment, and it's not Chinese. It's Australian.

The reason this company is leading the charge has to do with graphene production. You see, up until this company made a crucial breakthrough, the cost of production was too high to even consider making graphene for consumer needs — we're talking something on the order of $100,000/kg.

With the new production method, that cost has fallen by orders of magnitude, which has opened up an entire host of potential applications for this space-age material.

This company is currently quite small, with a market capitalization of less than $250 million — a mere drop in the bucket compared with the mammoth industry it's set to replace.

Its stock is also already public, which makes this a rare opportunity for investors in the know.

The Best-Kept Secret in Tech?

As you may have surmised by now, there aren't too many such investors out there today. Otherwise the stock would already be trading at a price several times higher than it is.

Today, only a handful of individuals outside the scientific community know anything about the company or the stock, which means you're on the cusp of a massive opportunity.

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Filed Under: Energy Storage Tagged With: Alex Koyfman, Batteries, China, Electric Vehicles, Graphene, International, lithium, Mining, Refining, tesla

How the Apple Self-Driving Car Will Take VR on the Road…

May 18, 2022 By admin Leave a Comment

In this Article

  • An 860% increase in qubits in just three years…
  • Apple is focusing on a unique VR application…
  • Get ready for some incredible images from outer space…

Dear Reader,

Markets have been like riding a rollercoaster lately. And some of us may feel sick to our stomachs as a result. I’ve certainly felt that as well.

But there has been one part of my portfolio that hasn’t felt any of the pain. That’s why I’ve been drawing readers’ attention to one specific kind of investment – private investments. These private shares can offer peace of mind… and help us sleep well at night no matter what the stock market is doing.

That’s because private companies aren’t vulnerable to the whims of public sentiment or Wall Street traders. Their valuations can climb no matter what the markets are doing.

And this Wednesday, I’m going to tell investors all about how to begin investing in the private markets – even if we aren’t accredited investors.

On May 18, at 8 p.m. ET, I’ll explain why these investments are a great hedge against market volatility… and talk about one particular area of private investing I want all my readers to know about. I call these opportunities “crypto placements.” And they have all the benefits of private investing… without all the wild swings of the crypto markets.

Quantum computing is more advanced than we know…

IBM just announced its roadmap for quantum computing development over the next three years. And the company’s projections are nothing short of incredible.

When we last checked in on IBM, the company had plans to release its 127-qubit quantum computer. That was back in February of last year.

As a reminder, qubits are the basic units that enable a quantum computer to function. It’s the quantum equivalent of the “bits” that power our laptops and desktop computers. And the more qubits, the more processing power a quantum computer has.

And IBM is planning on increasing its quantum computing horsepower dramatically over the next few years…

The company now plans to launch its 433-qubit quantum computer later this year. It will follow that up with a 1,121-qubit system next year. And then IBM expects to release a 4,158-qubit quantum computer by 2025.

That represents an 860% increase in qubits in just three years. Yet in terms of quantum processing power, that represents computing systems that are millions of times more powerful.

Most experts thought this pace would be impossible in the quantum space. But IBM has found a way to have multiple quantum processors work in parallel with one another. That’s how the company expects to get to 4,158 qubits by 2025.

Here’s a simple visual:

IBM’s Quantum Computer Processor

Source: IBM

Here we can see three quantum processors linked together to work in tandem. IBM is taking a modular approach to connecting multiple processors that contain qubits, thereby dramatically increasing the capabilities of its quantum computers.

And here’s the most exciting part of the story…

IBM is not a leader in the quantum computing space. I’m sure it lags behind companies like Google, Rigetti Computing, and IonQ in terms of actual performance.

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So if IBM is on track to release such advanced quantum computing systems over the next three years, I suspect these three companies are even further along… except none of them have revealed their detailed product road maps and what they are currently working on in their labs.

They have been intentionally flying under the radar, and I suspect that is to gain what will ultimately be a competitive advantage.

Simply put, the rise of quantum computing changes everything.

As I recently discussed with popular radio host Glenn Beck, advanced quantum computing will force us to completely overhaul our cybersecurity systems. It’s also the technology that will help us develop new materials and molecular compounds for things like energy production, pharmaceuticals, and electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

At the end of last year, I predicted that at least one company would release a 256-qubit quantum computer this year, and that we’d see breakthroughs in the quantum computing industry. 2022 is already proving to be exciting, and I know we’re in for some major announcements in the second half of this year.

Project Titan just got a lot more interesting…

We talked just last week about how Apple’s Project Titan is nearing commercialization.

As a reminder, this is Apple’s secretive electric vehicle (EV)/self-driving car initiative. And it’s more ambitious than we thought…

Apple just received a new patent that envisions building virtual reality (VR) technology right into its self-driving car.

Here’s a sketch from the patent:

Apple VR Patent Tech

Source: USPTO

As we can see, Apple will integrate a VR system directly into its car design.

Passengers will be able to tilt their chairs back and pop on the VR headset. Then they can either enjoy entertainment or do something productive, like taking a work meeting.

I can imagine Apple having a suite of travel-related VR apps where passengers can look outside the window and see different landscapes even though the car is in a dense urban environment.

And Apple takes it a step further than the basic VR experience.

The patent also envisions the VR system working in conjunction with the car’s audio system, heating and air system, and even the seat itself. These systems will perform certain functions autonomously to enhance the passenger’s VR experience.

For example, imagine the passenger is engaged in a VR experience that simulates sailing. This could trigger the car’s air system to turn on and simulate a breeze blowing over the water. The VR system could also trigger the passenger’s chair to gradually tilt back and forth to simulate the feeling of being in a boat.

What Apple is doing here is patenting the user experience for autonomous transportation.

So it turns out Project Titan isn’t just about a beautiful self-driving car. Apple is very much focused on delivering a unique experience inside the car as well.

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If we think about a world in which there are competing fleets of self-driving cars, each vying for customers – what sets one fleet apart from the others? It has to be the user experience.

And the user experience is what Apple is clearly looking to differentiate its autonomous cars compared to anything else in the market. I can’t wait to go for a ride.

The James Webb Space Telescope is almost fully calibrated…

We have been tracking the deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) closely this year. And today we have yet another stunning update…

For the sake of newer readers, the JWST is the most complex telescope ever constructed. What’s more, it was launched to a destination about one million miles from Earth back in February.

We call its destination the LaGrange Point 2 (L2). It’s on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. That makes it incredibly cold, which is great for the telescope’s performance.

JWST is currently going through the calibration process. We expect the first fully calibrated images to come back as early as July.

That said, JWST has sent a few images back already. They aren’t as advanced as what we will get once the telescope is fully calibrated. But they are still incredible.

We can see just how powerful JWST is by comparing a recent image from the JWST of the same spot in a galaxy to images from older infrared telescopes…

The Same Image from Different Telescopes

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech

As we can see, these images are of the same objects. We can see the string of four objects from the lower left to the upper right of the image. The only difference is that different telescopes took them over the last two decades.

We are looking at images of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). It’s a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

And get this – LMC is about 160,000 light years away from Earth.

The image on the left is from the WISE telescope back in 2003. The one in the middle is from Spitzer in 2008. And on the right is an image just sent back by the JWST.

Here we can see just how advanced the JWST is when compared to previous telescopes. The difference in resolution is dramatic.

And think about this – JWST’s images are only going to get clearer with even higher resolution.

Here’s the most exciting part…

NASA hasn’t yet told us what the JWST’s first scientific target will be. It has been very secretive about what the telescope will focus on first.

So we can look forward to more information from NASA within the next month or two. I’m very excited to see the next images that the telescope reveals…

Regards,

Jeff Brown
Editor, The Bleeding Edge

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Filed Under: Future Tech Tagged With: Apple, Autonomous, Batteries, Cybersecurity, Electric Vehicles, energy storage, Glenn Beck, Google, Graphene, IBM, IonQ, Jeff Brown, Nanotech, NASA, Patents, Project Titan, Quantum Computing, Rigetti Computing, Self-Driving Cars, Virtual Reality

This “Tiny” Tech will have a Huge Impact on Energy and Beyond…

May 4, 2022 By admin Leave a Comment

In this Article

  • Just How Small Is Nano?
  • This Revolutionary Technology Will Change Lives
  • Big Money Is Flooding Into Nanotech
  • How to Get in On This Revolutionary Trend

I grew up as an “IBM” kid. My dad worked as a leading statistician and programmer at one of the main IBM plants in my hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York.

While other kids played with dolls or toy trains, my dad would take me to IBM’s offices and show me all sorts of computer developments.

And later on, my first internship and job were at IBM.

In 1989, IBM made a technological quantum leap that made science fiction a reality…

IBM scientist Don Eigler became the first person to control individual atoms.

Eigler assembled 35 atoms to spell out “I-B-M” in a precise arrangement.

“We wanted to show we could position atoms in a way that’s very similar to how a child builds with Lego blocks,” he said.

Nanotechnology is the practice of manipulating individual atoms and molecules. But up until Eigler’s successful experiment in 1989, it existed only in theory.

Authors like renowned sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson painted a glorious picture of its applications in his 1995 book, The Diamond Age. He wrote about a world where your every want is possible, from machines that heal our bodies from the inside to buildings made of diamonds.

And now, more than 30 years after Eigler’s accomplishment, we are on the verge of a nanotech revolution.

That’s because we are beginning to see the kind of change some futurists predicted will come from the near-atomic-scale engineering discipline of nanotechnology.

And savvy investors stand on the cusp of huge profit…

Just How Small Is Nano?

Throughout the 20th century, engineers tried to make things smaller. After all, the smaller a piece of hardware, the less time it would take for the electrons to go from one place to another.

And so, for example, we’ve seen the computer go from the size of a room to the size of your back pocket…

As a result, electronics have become lighter, cheaper, and more efficient. So this approach made sense.

But nanotechnology takes the opposite approach. It’s about engineering things from a molecular level. It’s about building things from the bottom up, atom by atom… manipulating matter on the nanoscale.

So how small is nanoscale, exactly?

Let’s break it down…

A centimeter is one-hundredth of a meter… There are 100 centimeters in a meter.

A millimeter is one-thousandth of a meter… There are 1,000 millimeters in a meter.

A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. There are 1 billion – 1,000,000,000 – nanometers in a meter.

For perspective, one strand of human hair is 50,000 to 100,000 nanometers wide.

So, we’re talking microscopically small.

But this “tiny” technology will have a huge impact…

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This Revolutionary Technology Will Change Lives

Nanotech applications have an almost infinite variety of uses in virtually every field.

One of the most promising applications is medicine.

Doctors could send nano machines through your arteries to clear plaque. This could help prevent heart attacks and strokes.

These machines could repair damage within every single cell in a human body. They could even assemble new organs to replace aging ones – with perfect precision.

And they could be used to deliver drugs – chemotherapy, for example – on a targeted basis.

But nanotechnology has applications outside of healthcare, too.

Nanomachines could help solve environmental problems by breaking down pollutants and toxins. They could even reassemble them into useful materials.

And nanotechnology is revolutionizing manufacturing as well.

In 2004, scientists at the University of Manchester isolated a layer of carbon just one atom thick. This is called graphene.

Graphene is the thinnest material known to man. It is six times lighter than steel, but 200 times stronger. Adding a miniscule amount of graphene to concrete can reduce the amount of concrete needed in construction by up to 20%.

And graphene is almost entirely transparent. It absorbs only 2% of light. It can be used as a non-reflective covering for solar cells. This helps solar panels absorb much more energy.

The field of nanotechnology is progressing at breakneck speed. It is being incorporated into areas as diverse as clothing, furniture, paint, and computer processors.

And as I show in the next section, research into nanotech is escalating.

So we can expect to hear a lot more about this fast-moving field in the coming years…

Big Money Is Flooding Into Nanotech

Globally, the nanotech market has taken off in recent years. As you can see from this chart, the overall nanotechnology market has nearly quintupled in value since 2010. In 2021, it was worth $85.4 billion.

And it’s growing rapidly. It could reach $289 billion by 2030, according to market research company Precedence Research. That’s an increase of roughly 240% from 2020.

One of the things that ensures growth in any market is continuous patent development.

Patents are often used by companies to show investors they have the exclusive rights to the product they’re developing. Defending this intellectual property (IP) with a patent is critical in the nascent nanotechnology industry.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the most popular patent register worldwide. Most companies (U.S.-based and non-U.S.-based) register their patents there.

In 2021, a total of 23,750 nanotechnology-related patents were registered with the USPTO. This has been growing steadily in recent years, as you can see from this next chart…

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Most of these were registered by organizations in the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.

There is huge interest in nanotechnology from some of the tech industry’s biggest champions.

Leading the way are tech giants IBM, Samsung Electronics, and Intel. Combined, the three tech giants had 1,666 nanotech patents in 2019. This was up from a combined 556 patents between them at the start of the decade.

And the U.S. government is also investing heavily in this sector. In 2021, it spent about $1.7 billion on nanotech research & development (R&D) via its National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). And it is poised to spend about $2 billion this year.

In fact, since its inception in 2001, the NNI has invested more than $30 billion in nanotech R&D. It has helped develop nanotech applications in areas as diverse as energy, aerospace, sporting goods, agriculture, vaccine development, and consumer electronics.

Public and private investment will drive this ground-breaking technology in the years to come. The nanotech megatrend will revolutionize multiple industries.

And it will create economic value worth trillions of dollars in the process.

How to Get in On This Revolutionary Trend

The best way to get exposure in your portfolio is to buy shares in nanotech-related companies. Unfortunately, many such companies are small, private, and have little-to-no revenue.

So even if you can find any to invest in, they come with a degree of risk only suitable to those with a taste for the higher-stakes table.

A somewhat less risky way would be to buy shares of ProShares Nanotechnology ETF (TINY).

It’s a straightforward investment you can access in your regular brokerage account. As an exchange-traded fund (ETF), it also carries less company-specific risk than investing in individual companies.

But with just $2.7 million of assets under management, it’s tiny. This means there will be considerably lower trading volume than you might see in other ETFs in your portfolio. And because the ETF is so small, you’ll likely have to stomach some volatility.

If this isn’t your cup of tea, you can consider investing in a company like IBM (IBM). It’s a blue-chip technology company with stable profits.

It has invested significant resources in innovation to position itself as a leader in nanotech.

Happy investing, and I’ll be in touch again soon.

Regards,

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The Miracle Material on Track to Replace Lithium Batteries…

April 29, 2022 By admin Leave a Comment

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  • Elon Musk's Next Acquisition?
  • Every Lithium Battery You Buy Feeds Our Rivals
  • Is This Company Tomorrow's Standard Oil?

Dear Reader,

Most of you have heard of graphene.

It's the super-strong, super-light, super-conductive carbon nanostructure that won its key researchers, Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, the Nobel Prize in 2010.

It was a well-deserved win, to say the least. 

Just one molecule thick and arranged in a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, graphene is 200 times stronger than steel yet lighter than standard copy paper.

Lately, however, it's not its structural strength that's been the focus of attention.

One new field of research in particular has some of the most powerful people in tech worried about their livelihoods, and it all goes back to one word: batteries.

According to AZoM, one of the world's leading authorities on materials science, mass-produced graphene aluminum-ion batteries will soon boast properties such as a 60x increase in charge speed as well as a 3x longer service life.

This will allow a coin-sized battery to be recharged in 10 seconds instead of 10 minutes and an AA cell to be recharged in a minute — a fact that should be of special interest to the electric vehicle industry, as current EV battery packs are nothing more than thousands of AA cells wired together.

With the cells feeding simultaneously, the total time at the plug for a Tesla equipped with a graphene aluminum-ion battery pack will be equal to the charge time for a single cell: just around 60 seconds.

That's quicker than filling a standard car's gas tank.

Elon Musk's Next Acquisition?

Now, before you ask the question, let me answer it for you: Yes, Elon Musk knows this, and the rumor mill is already turning out guesses as to when Tesla might make the switch-over.

So far, however, there has been one major hurdle: cost.

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Up until now, the cost of production for what could go down as the miracle material of the 21st century has been as high as $15,000 per kilogram.

That's at least 1,000 times too high for graphene to be viable in the mass-production game, but all of that is about to about to change.

An Australian company based in Brisbane has patented a process for manufacturing graphene that may be as game-changing as the material itself.

Using nothing more than natural gas the chief raw material, overhead could be slashed to just a couple dollars per kilogram.

Moreover, with natural gas being widely abundant in North America, the graphene will pose no issues whatsoever in terms of troublesome links in the supply chain.

Every Lithium Battery You Buy Feeds Our Rivals

Right now, it is completely conceivable that graphene will supplant lithium-ion batteries as the global standard for rechargeable batteries before the end of the decade.

However, for this to happen, the company that owns the patents to this new production method will have to sign a lot of contracts with a lot of battery-makers to license this technology.

Among them, the biggest battery-maker in the world, Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA).

The company behind all this is well on the way to achieving the goals set out by its founders in 2016.

It's already operating a production plant in Brisbane; already producing functioning cells; and already sending out early-run samples to potential clients for testing and evaluation.

The first graphene batteries will be the tiny coin-style units that power many small devices, including the long-term memory storage in your laptop or tablet.

Ultimately, however, this small unknown tech firm hopes to put its technology into every product class in existence, from wireless devices, to cars, to residential and commercial distributed energy storage systems.

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Is This Company Tomorrow's Standard Oil?

If this company is successful in penetrating even 5% of today's lithium market, that will represent annual revenues totaling more than 10 times the company's current market capitalization.

Yes, the company is that small — under $300 million (USD) at the moment.

But let's be realistic. If these batteries deliver on their promise, this company won't be taking 5% or even 25% of the market…

It will wipe out the lithium-ion battery market entirely and make current prospective alternatives, like manganese, obsolete overnight.

It will, put more succinctly, become the energy supplier of the 21st century, the same way the oil giants of the gilded age were more than 100 years ago.

Given his penchant for buying, it's fairly safe to assume that Musk will snap up this company and all of its IP outright long before that happens.

Which makes right now the time for risk-tolerant investors to make their mark.

Shares of this graphene battery-maker are already trading on North American exchanges. In fact, you can buy their shares today, right now, if you have access to a live broker or any popular online trading platform.

All you need is the ticker symbol.

But before you make that decision, I urge you to get all the facts and understand all the risks involved.

Do your due diligence, but do it quickly. Yesterday alone, shares rose more than 7%.

There's no telling where they'll be at the end of the week.

Don't delay. Get informed now.

Fortune favors the bold,

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