Archives for June, 2016
Cobalt and lithium are often referred to as “energy metals”. They are the primary constituents, along with graphite, of lithium ion batteries, the fastest growing segment of the battery market. There is a lot of hype in this space, however demand growth is strong and expected to continue. Graphite and lithium…
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (“NOAA”) has a great website that is well worth a visit. The chart below, interactive on the NOAA site, shows average May temperatures for the continental US since 1895. It can be seen that while there is a high degree of fluctuation, the…
It is a principle of good science that all effort must be made to falsify a hypothesis. Only when that attempt has failed can the hypothesis be, at least tentatively, accepted. But humans are not wired that way; we tend to accept evidence that supports an existing point of view…