GLG News by Council Members Knowledgeable on Chemical Catalysts

The success of the nickel metal hydride utilizing hybrid power train is one of the truly outstanding successes of Japanese automotive engineering, and it demonstrates clearly the short sightedness of American OEM automotive management. The nickel metal battery was invented in a suburban Detroit...

Obama's call for significant new renewable energy generation may drive the need for more solar / PV capacity.   Dow Corning and Hemlock may be relying on this prospect to pay back their $3 Billion polysilicon investment.

The Prius line of best selling hybrids in the world is due to be expanded next month with the introduction of several new models at the Detroit 'International" Auto Show. Most of the Priuses made are now sold are sold in North America. The Prius is only built in Japan. The nickel metal hydride...

While GM ignored the success of the Toyota Prius apparently for no other reason than that they wanted the public to believe that it wasn't invented here Ford decided to watch and learn. Ford has now reached the point where it about to challenge Toyota and Honda for a place in the hybrid sun.   There...

Battery powered utility vehicles such as industrial forklift trucks and the 'traction' motors that pull 100 ton+ airplanes into and out of their 'parking' slots at airports are very impressive. However, to put forward the idea that there is a comparison between and a possibility of utilizing them to...

Cheaper feedstocks and new ethylene capacity in the Middle East have threatened the critical mass of US petrochemical infrastructure.  Redundant plants may be permanently closed as new production grows offshore.

Wind and solar power are effective options for satisfying marginal generating demand during peak consumption periods.  If conventional generating capacity is sufficient then the 'Green' alternatives become economically disadvantaged.

There is a simple reason that Toyota has grown steadily over the last 25 years from a maker of low quality inexpensive cars for the Japanese domestic market into the world's largest and most profitable-from the sale of vehicles-auto maker. The reason is long term planning coupled with continuous feedback...

The financial crisis has put the focus back on economic reality and president-elect Obama will desert his militant environmental leftists when new jobs and basic infrastructure projects can solve his objectives.  Of course, military objectives area also heavily weighing on his future decisions. ...

As finite supplies of critical raw materials are used up or squandered in dissipative uses from which they cannot be economically recovered their supply becomes more and more price sensitive. Many minor metals are for this reason rapidly becoming more valuable even though this fact has been masked by...