I'm such an old fool! I thought you meant the whole Naz would go positive. That was unlikely with all this noise.
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SUNDAY- On the ride up to Ct we saw an unusual amount of large car carriers. Most were new cars one was old ones... I wonder if I large shipment came in to Newark? > Supply lines easing? Israel has a new weapon for defense... a laser <--- Very sci fi.... Ronald Reagan was the first to dream up a defense based on lasers... if you believe what the Gov tells us we have been working one and off again on the problem without much success.. ( I read that as we already have a couple in Space_ but anyway Israel is real close with this giant laser that intercepts missals within a few seconds of their launch not minutes... And there are different ways of creating a laser beam using gasses etc. They didn't work so Israel is using one that consumed great amounts of electricity. <---- Ok so electrical grids<-- That's what an enemy of the future has to attack first eliminating this laser weapon.... There have been two major attempts in Europe of Russian cyber warfare attacks in the past few weeks -both were stymied. I do not know if electrical grids were the target. If we are going to have all of these electric cars running around... does this not become abit of a tactical back door for an enemy. Kill our electricity kill our mobility if we all have electric cares... If you are relying on lasers that consume vast amounts of electricity what if the plug is pulled? What then? A Generac generator? Eaton looks ready for electrifying recharge, stock could jump 30%, Barron's says 09:43 ETN An environmentally friendly future of electric-powered transportation, factories, and home heating depends on a large and resilient power grid, but in the U.S. and elsewhere, the grid simply isn't ready for the job. Getting there will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, Avi Salzman writes in this week's edition of Barron's. Eaton (ETN) is one of the leading companies in the field, and it's seeing demand ramp up well beyond its own expectations. The backlog in its electrical segment, which accounts for over two-thirds of its revenue, rose 76% in the latest quarter, more than ever before, the author notes.
Ted) So far the GBA call of oil to $125 seems spot on. Then we said you would hear calls for $150. That clarion signal just rang the 1st time-! Callon, Murphy Oil could benefit if oil keeps rising, Barron's says 09:38 CPE,SBOW,MUR,OVV,ROCC Oil could be headed for $150 a barrel. That might not be good for the economy, but it would be great news for energy stocks, Ben Levisohn writes in this week's edition of Barron's. Oil exploration stocks, in particular, stand to benefit, the author notes. The publication highlighted Callon Petroleum (CPE), SilverBow Resources (SBOW), Murphy Oil (MUR), Ovintiv (OVV), and Ranger Oil (ROCC). The last part of our message on oil is that it crashes. SO A LITTLE HYPE THIS WEEK A TOUCH OF $125// A MAJOR HOUSE (GS IS ITCHING TO) A MAJOR HOUSE SAYS PEAK OIL! $150 Coming!!!!.... and get the short positions on.
Now you see Barrons is talking exploration... I'm not sure about that.... I point to the refiners. Is that not a lock in some ways... No new refineries likely ever built again in the U.S., Chevron CEO warns Jun. 03, 2022 6:30 PM ETChevron Corporation (CVX) Chevron (NYSE:CVX) CEO Mike Wirth said Friday that he does not expect another oil refinery will be built in the U.S. ever again, due to decades of federal government policies. "We haven't had a refinery built in the United States since the 1970s. My personal view is there will never be another new refinery built in the United States," Wirth said in an interview with Bloomberg. "You're looking at committing capital 10 years out, that will need decades to offer a return for shareholders, in a policy environment where governments around the world are saying we don't want these products," Wirth said. "At every level of the system, the policy of our government is to reduce demand, and so it's very hard in a business where investments have a payout period of a decade or more," according to Wirth. "And the stated policy of the government for a long time has been to reduce demand for your products." Refining margins have exploded to historic highs on surging demand for gasoline and diesel; according to the latest data from AAA, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. hit a new record high of $4.761 on Friday. --- ARE REFINERS A LOCK? --- Will THEY get hit if oil retreats to $80-$100?
Israel Builds a Laser Weapon to Zap Threats Out of the Sky From science fiction to facts in the air: Israel says a prototype downed rockets and drones in recent tests. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, left, being shown a new laser-based air defense system at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems on Tuesday, in this photo released by the Israeli government, called the weapon a “game changer.”Credit...Amos Ben Gershom/Israel Government Press Office June 3, 2022 JERUSALEM — After two decades of research and experimentation, Israeli defense officials now say they have a working prototype of a high-powered laser gun that can intercept rockets, mortar shells, drones and anti-tank missiles in flight. Officials said that the system performed successfully in a recent series of live fire tests in the southern Israeli desert, destroying a rocket, a mortar shell and a drone, and prompting a standing ovation from officials watching the action onscreen. The government has allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to develop the weapon, which Prime Minister Naftali Bennett described this week as a “strategic game changer.” He has pledged “to surround Israel with a laser wall.” Professionals involved in developing the system say it is still several years away from being fully operational in the field, and experts caution that even then it may initially be of limited use in protecting Israel from heavy incoming rocket fire. Israeli officials have not said whether it would be effective against the precision-guided missiles that Israel says Hezbollah is developingin Lebanon. Still, laser weapons have moved from science-fiction movies and the gaming fantasy genre to reality. At least one laser weapon, Lockheed Martin’s Helios, has started deployment on U.S. Navy ships. “There is a lot of promising laser work going on,” said Thomas Karako, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “This isn’t ‘Star Wars’ science fiction anymore.” The U.S. Army has also been working on laser weapons, including more powerful ones able to down cruise missiles, and is moving toward deployment, Mr. Karako said. None have been battle tested yet, however, and laser beams have serious limitations, like not being able to shoot through clouds. Israel’s ground-based laser air defense system, named Iron Beam, is intended to complement, not replace, other elements of Israel’s air defense arsenal including Iron Dome, the well known short-range missile interception system, as well as medium- and long-range missile interception systems. While those systems fire small guided missiles to intercept incoming projectiles, the new weapon trains laser beams on a particular spot on the projectile, heating it up to the point of destruction. Israeli officials hope a new laser weapon can defend against rockets from Gaza, like the one that destroyed this building in the Tel Aviv suburb of Petah Tikva last year.Credit...Dan Balilty for The New York Times Israel’s defense minister, Benny Gantz, said that Israel was “one of the first countries in the world” to develop such a weapon. Brig. Gen. Yaniv Rotem, head of the Defense Ministry’s Research and Development team, said that during the live fire tests in March incoming threats were intercepted within seconds of detection, not minutes as in previous tests, and at a range of up to six miles. “We have a full system to demonstrate the capability,” he said in an interview. “We are there.” The quest for laser weapons has had a long history of failure. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan created the Strategic Defense Initiative, widely mocked as “Star Wars,” to find a way to shoot down nuclear ballistic missiles, including by laser technology. After spending more than $200 billion with little to show for it, that effort was abandoned in 1993. But research continued under other programs. In the late 1990s, Israel and the United States tried to produce an experimental, high-energy laser system with a less ambitious reach, aimed at destroying rockets in flight. That effort, known as Nautilus, was shelved in 2005, partly because of the system’s bulkiness and poor performance. The technology has now shifted from the chemical laser, which required corrosive and toxic chemicals to induce a beam and machinery almost the size of an on-site laboratory, to the solid-state laser, which needs only copious amounts of electricity. Moreover, Iron Dome is heavily subsidized by the United States, which allocated an additional billion dollars for the weapon in the 2022 budget at a time when U.S. military aid to Israel has become increasingly controversial. Israel is also sharing its Iron Beam knowledge with its American allies, Israeli officials said. General Rotem said that Iron Beam would reverse the economic equation with Israel’s enemies and that Israel would recoup its investment in as little as two weeks of conflict. The initial deployments would be around Gaza, he said, then along all of Israel’s hostile borders. “So you will need many more systems on the ground,” Mr. Inbar said, “even if they are described as very cheap because they only need electricity.” But cheap is relative in the world of military spending. A senior military official said in a recent briefing that Israeli F-35 stealth fighter jets had intercepted two Iranian drones last year in the airspace of a neighboring country. Scrambling the most sophisticated warplanes in Israel’s arsenal to take down cheap drones underlined the huge cost imbalance Israel faces in defending against relatively inexpensive rockets and drones, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with army rules. Iron Beam, Israeli officials hope, could correct that imbalance.