RR, What do you think of investing in rare earths such as lanthanum which is used in "nickel-metal hydride." batteries. The "metal" in question is lanthanum, but what can we say, rare earth elements get no respect. A big breakthrough in battery technology, nickel-lanthanum hydride batteries pack more power into a smaller space—they're about twice as efficient as the standard lead-acid car battery. Read more: 4 Rare Earth Elements That Will Only Get More Important - Popular Mechanics<http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/news/important-rare-earth-elements#ixzz2JnlYE9Tf> 73 David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA <http://www.qsl.net/n1ea/> Radio-Officers Group<http://groups.google.com/group/radio-officers?hl=en>-- Join CW email list <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/cw%20> -- Historic Morse Recordings <http://tiny.cc/n1ea> *Gopher Hole:* gopher://sdf.org/1/users/djringjr/ (native or with Firefox's Overbite extension) or via http to gopher gateway<http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org/1/users/djringjr/> *C**hat* Skype: djringjr MSN: djringjr@xxxxxxx AIM: N1EA icq: 27380609 =30=