How Vanadium Kills Lithium

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[Energy and Capital Header] Practical Investment Analysis for the New Energy Economy How Vanadium Kills Lithium Alex Koyfman | Apr 13, 2024 Dear Reader, I’ve been bullish on lithium for months now, ever since prices dropped more than 75% from late 2022 highs. If you read Energy and Capital with any regularity, I probably don’t need to tell you that since I talk myself blue on the topic every single week. Thankfully, today I’m not going to talk about lithium, instead I’m going to talk about another metal — one which may actually succeed in eclipsing lithium in one specific but important segment of the rechargeable battery sector. That metal is Vanadium — a seldom understood and often overlooked “transition” metal whose primary usage is as an additive in the steel refining process. [vanadium] Now, you can make batteries using Vanadium, but there’s a catch. Battery grade Vanadium is extremely expensive — more than 3x the price of silver, in fact. The result: Vanadium batteries cost around 2x what lithium-based batteries cost, per kWh. 9 Billionaires Shifting Funds Here (Plus Warren Buffett) The smartest investors in the world are making a BIG move right now. David Tepper, Steve Cohen, Bill Gross, Paul Tudor Jones, Jeremy Grantham, George Soros, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, and Larry Fink... 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Lithium-ion batteries, and even the next-generation solid state lithium batteries which we’ve been hearing so much about in the news, only last somewhere between 500-1500 charge/discharge cycles before the onset of a sudden and dramatic drop-off in charge capacity, as well as an increased risk of catastrophic failure. Vanadium batteries, on the other hand, can go for up to 25,000 cycles without noticeable loss in performance. That’s up to 30 years of reliable, peak-level operation. This kind of longevity is fairly useless in things like smart phones, tablets and other wireless devices, as we tend to replace those every few years regardless, and the energy density deficiency makes vanadium batteries too big and bulky to be practical in EVs. But there’s one application where vanadium shines: Commercial and industrial scale power storage. For every solar or wind farm, a large battery array must be built nearby to store and discharge power not immediately consumed — a universal constant in the world of renewables. Can Vanadium Batteries Save Our Power Grid? Right now, Lithium dominates this space as it dominates all others, but using lithium for long-term industrial work is like using a backup generator to run your house fulltime. Over a 25-30 year lifespan, Vanadium batteries deliver substantially more power before performance decay begins. [vanadium] With the added feature of reliability and safety (Vanadium batteries are all but fireproof), and the task of patching and supporting our aging powergrid looming over us, lithium's hold over distributed energy storage is sure to start changing in short order. Now, it’s true, you don’t often hear about this segment of the battery market, and there's a reason for that. Building-sized batteries sitting behind chain link fences just aren’t as sexy as the latest iPhone, or the new Tesla Roadster that’s supposed to debut next year, but collectively, distributed power storage is the third biggest segment of the battery market. One American Firm's Top-Secret AI Tech Could Help Defeat Hamas One tiny American firm is working with the FBI, CIA, and NSA to develop advanced AI technology. It’s the most well-connected AI firm in the world... This firm’s technology has already disrupted Syrian air defenses, destroyed an Iranian uranium facility, and thwarted cyberattacks on U.S. power plants. Not to mention, Ukraine would not have made nearly as much progress repelling Russia’s invasion without this advanced AI tech. Now this tiny AI defense firm is set to turn the tides of the Israel-Hamas war... And hand its early investors as much as 10x their money. [Learn more about this small AI defense company before its stock soars.]( The Dumb Money Won't Hear Anything About Vanadium Until It's Too Late Retail investors, as always, are too busy running after the headline-grabbing trends to care, but as of today, April 13, 2024, I will go on the record as saying that I firmly believe that Vanadium will rule this multi-billion industry in the coming years. I recently introduced my readers to one of the only pure vanadium battery play that's trading in North America today. It’s small, underbought, mostly ignored by the investment community. But it’s already producing large-scale batteries and is building its client list. The company recently got a major order to power a US Department of Energy-funded project. So this company and its technology is anything but unknown to those whose opinions matter the most. My readers first heard of this company a few weeks ago, but right now, [I’m making this informational video available to all of our free readers as well.]( It’s everything you need to know about vanadium, the batteries it powers, and the future of the distributed energy storage industry. [Check it out, right here, no charge, no registration.]( Believe me when I say that you’ll never see lithium in the same light again. Fortune favors the bold, [alex koyfman Signature] Alex Koyfman [[follow basic]Check us out on YouTube!]( His flagship service, Microcap Insider, provides market-beating insights into some of the fastest moving, highest profit-potential companies available for public trading on the U.S. and Canadian exchanges. With more than 5 years of track record to back it up, Microcap Insider is the choice for the growth-minded investor. 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