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- From: rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion,misc.invest
- Subject: What are wise investments if one thinks energy will get cheaper?
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 00:59:05 GMT
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Advanced Systems, Fremont CA
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- The more I read the news in sci.physics.fusion, the more that I tend
- to think that _somebody_(my own favorite horses in this race are some
- of the small companies working on hot fusion) will come up with a
- dramatically improved energy source sometime in the next 30 years.
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- What investment strategies can folks suggest that would benefit
- from events that dramatically decrease the costs of energy.
- My ideal investment would be somethink like selling electrity futures
- -deliverable in some long horizon-short. Now, to the best of my knowledge
- there are no "pure" energy futures Oil futures would come close, but
- oil is used for lots of other things besides just producing energy, though
- I'd expect oil and coal prices to both drop rather dramatically after
- some breakthrough in energy technology unless the non-energy uses of oil
- (i.e. making plastics and fabrics) expanded dramatically in response to
- cheaper energy prices.
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- Thanks for your suggestions. Followups to misc.invest.
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