Chicken Little, Dragon Fuel, Space Mining, and The Bionic Human

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Finally, we close with brief comments on Chicken Little, Dragon Fuel, Space Mining, and The Bionic Human.  First, US chicken processors plan to add 8% to their capacity between 2018 and early 2020.  Unfortunately, industry demand grows only 1% or so a year.  With capacity utilization falling for the foreseeable future, we see the industry crying “The sky is falling!” just like Chicken Little. Second, Chinese demand for fuel continues to grow rapidly.  According to the latest statistics, China’s consumption of oil products rose 7.2% year-over-year in July.  In addition, Chinese LNG imports rose almost 34% year-over-year.  With the Chinese economy continuing to mature, Dragon Fuel is becoming more and more critical.  Third, Japan plans to land multiple robotic landing craft from the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft on an asteroid this fall.  While the goal of this landing is to collect data from the ancient asteroid, it also stands as a precursor to testing the ability to land and conduct operations in a vacuum.  As a result, it is another step on the road to the commercialization of space and enabling Space Mining.  And Fourth, scientists at Oregon State University discovered that precursor cells for skeletal muscles also give rise to neurons, blood cells, muscles, and immune cells.  With this discovery, scientists believe they have moved closer to solving many genetic or environmental disorders and to manufacturing whole limbs, such as an arm or a leg.  We see this as one more step on the road to The Bionic Human.

 

 

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