Breakthrough Energy with Joel Garbon

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1. Brilliant interview, Catherine! Joel gave the most easy-to-understand explanation of cold fusion and all of the history around it that I’ve ever heard. In addition, I loved the point you brought up about how sometimes laws of science may be put in place for political purposes as opposed to whether or not the laws are really true and irrefutable…for the purpose of keeping scientific experimentation and discovery away from areas that would really have us breakthrough to new paradigms.

   1. Jim:

      You are ahead of me. I am still trying to understand the technology. I just keep at it!

      Catherine

2. I am a swing trader living off my portfolio. Q: What about any asset you hold with a broker in “street name” v.s. the “direct registration” or the paper certificate actually in your name route? Recent changes put you as an account holder way back in the line of creditors, should your broker/bank go bust. Derivative contract counter-parties are of course now first in line ahead of all others. Changing to direct registration or even paper certificates would add extra costs and complexity to what I do, while not all equities are in the direct registration system. Would you add this topic to the Portfolio Strategy question for the 1st quarter wrap please?
   For instance: http://www.dtc.org/dtcpublic/html/lob2/prod6/

   Thanks.

   1. Will do.

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   1. This may be a duplicate, tried to post in the February comments, but it’s not showing up..

      Hi Catherine,

      Your weekly news analysis is a priceless substitute for the rest of the journalism industry, thank you for your service. Would you consider doing a future Solari report on “How To Stay Out of Trouble”, while publishing information that may be challenging to one or more global constituencies? For example:

      * diversify income and information sources
      * is there less pushback on a semi-closed publication (like Solari) vs. an entirely open publication?
      * any book recommendations on the history of satire and other techniques of introducing topics without naming names?
      * your life story could be several movies, do “Junior Catherines” need to walk similar paths to gain the necessary survival skills?
      * how to deal with those who “encourage” occasional distribution of indeterminate info, riding on legitimacy of other coverage

      As time goes by, the number of groups that could possibly become offended by something seems to increase. Just as “old money” can look down on “new money”, does “old governance” look down on “new governance”? E.g. resource-rich startups can be uninformed by unspoken conventions that stabilize older, if flawed, institutions. How can one safely publish to audiences with an ever-expanding diversity of belief and confusion?

      This is a sensitive topic, but important in the “teach to fish” sense. Anything you could safely share would be appreciated. It would be a positive outcome if Solari and your example could inspire the birth of apprentice suns. Especially in comparison to China, where http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/will-china-use-big-data-as-a-tool-of-the-state/ says that:

      ‘public intellectuals’ who have been systematically eliminated over the past three years. With potential rallying points such as opinion leaders or alternative ideologies crushed, the government can view the seething mass of public grievances as a potential source of information, not a direct challenge.

      Rich

      1. Yike! Rich, deepest apologies. This posted in the spam – I am not sure why. This is a great idea, so I will calendar one – check out one in the archives called “How to Tell the Truth and Stay Alive.”

   2. 🙂

4. Re: Oil

   Armstrong is saying $30-35 for oil low.

5. Hi Catherine
   Would you ask your guest about the prospect of Geothermal, energy?
   Looking forward to interview

   Best regards
   Diane

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