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The riot police in Greece have run out of tear gas.
More than a week into riots that started after the police shooting of a suburban Athens teenager, more than 4,600 tear gas canisters have been fired. Yet the Molotov cocktails keep flying.
So why am I looking for a way in?
Don't get me wrong... I don't plan to pull a Lord Byron here, running off to Athens to join the revolution. Instead, I see this as a prime scenario for crisis investing.
Crisis Investing in Greece
National Bank of Greece, the country's oldest and largest lender, has suffered broken windows and even blazing fires at many of its storefront locations. Not to mention a two-day general strike that added economic insult to NBG's injury.
Already on the ropes because of the global financial crisis, NBG had declared by mid-week that it would give generous financial help to branches damaged in the unrest...
Then the main branch in central Athens got hit on Friday.
NBG shares are listed in New York as well as in Athens, and despite the riots NYSE:NBG is actually trading at a premium to the S&P 500 over the past five days, as you see in this chart:
As it happens, the demonstrators―most of whom call themselves anarchists―are attacking both ends of the political spectrum. Over the weekend, the headquarters of Greece's Communist Party and the Environment Ministry were firebombed.
From behind their masks, some of the protesters are saying that not only police violence but economic uncertainty sparked what became Greece's worst riots in a generation.
European economic worries also help explain why these mass events spread to Spain, France, Denmark and even Russia over the course of the week. Those outbreaks focused on Greek consulates in many cities, but high youth unemployment and lack of confidence in leaders is a common condition.
In Greece, 25% of the population under 25 years old is unemployed, and corruption is sharpening the point of worldwide recession.
"I don't think I know a single Greek who hasn't bribed for something in their lives," one peaceful protester named Sophia told the Chicago Tribune.
Confidence is the top commodity in a bear market, and you can bet it's hard to come by. But international investors won't spot National Bank of Greece any points for coming from a corrupt country.
Sailing the Dark Sea of Global Finance
Greece has its own problems, but graft is even more of an issue in newer European Union members like Bulgaria and Romania―both of which are served by National Bank of Greece and its partner banks.
EU leaders say former Warsaw Pact countries aren't cleaning up quickly enough, but market growth throughout Southeast Europe has helped buffer NBG against the global credit crunch and financial crisis...
Profits in the Balkan region and Turkey almost completely offset a 13% quarterly domestic loss in NBG's Q3 earnings report.
Nevertheless, the Greek Finance Ministry still had to lay down a 28 billion euro bailout package recently for NBG and some of its peers.
Let's face it... Investing in financials anywhere right now is a form of crisis investing. Central bankers and the Fed have thrown up every rate cut and bailout they could as a defense against disaster, but we still seem a step away from global depression.
Many bottoms have been called, and many mavens have been proven wrong... Like the Greek riot police, international financial sheriffs seem to have run out of ammo.
The weekend revelation that top financier Bernard Madoff is a huckster extraordinaire―he took billions from banks and country club buddies alike―is but another assault on the system's integrity and market support levels.
So I prefer to make a Greek crisis play away from sketchy money men and their institutions, in another direction.
Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling (NYSE:CCH)
It's better right now to capitalize on the same baseline consumer goods demand that is drawing investors to U.S. blue chips like Campbell's (NYSE:CPB) and Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT).
Take a look at Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (NYSE:CCH), which distributes Coke products in Greece and 27 other countries. It also rose during a tumultuous week.
I'm not gonna gloss over an ugly truth... If you take a look at the data, CCH's balance sheet is hurting from too much debt. But that's the story of a significant chunk of the global stock market, and the company is trying to clean things up.
Coca-Cola Hellenic just appointed a new CFO and strategy chief, in addition to increasing its market share in Italy with a major acquisition.
And to compare NBG and CCH, it just has to be easier to tally soda sales than it is to wrangle emerging market mortgage debt and fight off rioters.
So have a Coke and a smile, and try not to get hit with flying bottles if you're in Athens.
Water Company Stocks
Investing in the World's Most Precious Resource
By Nick Hodge
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
There is a giant bull market that hardly anyone knows about.
It has people grappling for a scarce resource. It has businesses fighting for rights to it. It has pitted neighbor against neighbor, and state against state.
And it could make you an absolute fortune.
Of course, being such a huge bull market, there are examples of it everywhere―in the headlines and news stories you read everyday.
Yet nobody seems to put the pieces together; no one has yet connected the dots in a meaningful way for investors.
Take, for example, an article I came across recently in the Los Angeles Times:
Across the countryside of this nation on the heel of the Arabian Peninsula, the pumps and drills roar. Wildcatters bore as much as 1,000 feet into the earth and draw out the valuable liquid. They pump it into tankers and haul it away to sell to the highest bidder.
Any rational person would assume this article was about oil. But it's not.
It's about water. The world's most precious resource.
Water Scarcity
That L.A. Times article was about Yemen, and its current struggle to provide enough water to satisfy both its population and its agricultural business. It's a task that's proving to be harder and harder each day.
The article continued:
As Yemen's exploding population draws out more and more water from the parched land. . . the bone-dry nation's very existence is threatened. The country faces its greatest water crisis, with underground levels dropping dramatically, scientists and government officials say.
Instead of conserving water as it becomes scarcer and more precious, more and more Yemenis are rushing faster and faster to extract it from the earth and capture it from rains for profit, pushing the country toward an ecological nightmare.
Interestingly, this is the same scenario that's currently being played out with oil or, more specifically, peak oil. So it begs the question: Are we about to face peak water?
More and more, the answer is yes. You see, the Yemeni water problem isn't an isolated event. It's one being witnessed by most countries in the world, both developed and undeveloped.
Certainly you've heard about the ongoing droughts in the American Southeast and Southwest, and in Australia, China, Africa, and the rest of the Middle East.
The Growing Water Problem Is A Factor of Many Issues
First of all, water is a finite resource. There is no more water on the earth today than there was hundreds of millions of years ago. There is no less either. We can't make it or destroy it.
And while our planet may be over 70% covered with water, less than 2% of it is freshwater. . . you know, the stuff we need to survive.
Of that tiny 2%, some water is perpetually tied up as atmospheric moisture or as frozen saturated soil (permafrost) that we can never use. Put another way, if all the world's water were in a one-gallon jug, fresh water wouldn't account for even a teaspoon of it!
The second part of the problem is the growing human population.
Water was first formed about 4.5 billion years ago. We've been around for only 60,000 years. But in that time, our population has exploded.
And we've done it rather quickly. It took us all of history to break the 1 billion population barrier at the beginning of the 19th century. Since then, the world's population has grown exponentially to over 6.5 billion. We now add about 75 people every 30 seconds.
And most projections put world population at about 10 billion by 2050. That's unsustainable to say the least, unless we can come up with market-based approaches to lessen water consumption, use water more efficiently, and derive freshwater from saltwater resources via desalination, which is currently a very capital and energy intensive process.
If nothing is done, by 2025 nearly two-thirds of the world's population will be water stressed due to greater demands on freshwater resources by burgeoning human populations...the diminishing quality of existing water resources because of pollution...and the additional requirements of servicing our industrial and agricultural growth.
That's less than 20 years away.
Water Right Now: Shortages and Investing
Ironically, two-thirds of the world's population lives in areas that receive only one-quarter of the world's annual rainfall, while the most water-rich areas of the world, such as the Amazon and Congo River Basins, are sparsely populated.
Right now, about 450 million people in 29 countries are facing severe water shortages.
According to the UN, water and sanitation deficits affect about 50 percent of all people in the developing world and lead to the deaths of 1.8 million children each year.
Much like easily accessible oil, all the readily available water resources are in full use:
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All surface and ground freshwater resources in Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Cyprus, Malta and the Arabian Peninsula are fully used.
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It's now possible to wade across Lake Chad―which was once one of the largest lakes in the world and thought to be the source of the Nile.
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Once the fourth largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea's surface area has shrunk by 60% and its volume by 80%. . . and it's still shrinking.
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The Yangtze, Ganges, and Colorado, don't flow to the sea for much of the year because of upstream withdrawals.
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In some places, the Ogallala―which supports America's breadbasket―is declining at the rate of five feet per year. Optimistic predictions say that the Ogallala will be depleted by 2020.
Perhaps an image of the current drought conditions here in the U.S. can give more tangible insight as to just how severe the problem currently is:
I could go on and on about the doom side of the water story. There is more than enough solid information and analysis to convince any sane person that there is real problem going on.
What's more interesting for investors, though, is that there's a boatload of money to be made from investing in the companies that are providing solutions to water scarcity issue.
Take, for example, the current state of the water infrastructure here in the U.S.
The nation has 800,000 miles of water pipes and 500,000 miles of sewer pipes. Generally, these pipes are supposed to last fifty years. The most comprehensive research to date suggests that the average age of water infrastructure pipes in the US is 43 years.
Just this single piece of data implies that nearly the entire water pipeline system in the US will soon have to be replaced.
To overcome these obstacles, an investment upwards of $1 trillion will need to be made in the next twenty years. That breaks down to over a 150% annual increase over current spending amounts of $60 billion annually.
Water Company Stocks
Essentially, this is a massive wealth building opportunity. By staking your claim early in the water utilities, pipe and valve manufacturers, and desalination companies that will be providing lifeblood to billions of people, you have the chance to rake in hefty profits.
Just this week Mueller Water Products (NYSE: MWA), which makes water infrastructure and flow control equipment , announced its third quarter results. The result was net income of $20.3 million, much better than the $1.3 million loss in the third quarter of 2007.
Net sales from their U.S. Pipe segment surged 9.4% higher than the same quarter in 2007―a prime illustration of the infrastructure work currently underway.
Since the announcement of the results, Mueller's stock has gained as much as 25%. And there's probably more to come.
But Mueller certainly isn't an isolated incident. I expect this trend to continue for year. This is just the beginning.
Just look at Flowserve Corp. (NYSE: FLS), which develops, manufactures, and sells precision-engineered flow control equipment. That stock has been on an absolute tear over the past twelve months:
And I have a water pipe replacement play in the Alternative Energy Speculator portfolio that is already delivering hefty gains to readers.
Indeed, there is much more to come from this sector. I'll keep you up do date here in the pages of Wealth Daily
Emerging Market Investments
G20 Summit Confirms New Economic Order
By Sam Hopkins
Monday, November 17th, 2008
It's a great time to go long India and Brazil.
Emerging market countries outnumbered "advanced" economies at the G20 summit in Washington over the weekend. And as India's economist prime minister says, "The balance of power has shifted."
A Cambridge graduate who has served as India's finance minister, central bank chief, and UN envoy for financing, Dr. Manmohan Singh came into the Group of 20 summit in Washington with a better frame of reference than any of his head-of-state peers.
Indeed, this was the first time that national leaders have been invited to such a conclave. Normally, central bankers and treasury chiefs represent their countries. Singh is an exceptional complete package, both understanding the details of market events and being able to take action to help his country and economy quickly.
It was also notable that out of the 20 delegations sent to D.C., developing countries led by a 12-to-8 margin.
Those 12 are the vanguard of a new economic power structure that is already creating stock opportunities for investors. Across the world from India, in South America, Brazil is gladly stepping to the forefront.
The G8 is "no longer relevant"
President Lula da Silva of Brazil echoed Dr. Singh's appraisal of the new financial landscape and the dwindling importance of the Group of Eight industrialized nations. "It's no longer relevant," Lula told the Brazilian press.
"We are talking about the G20 because the G8 doesn't have any more reason to exist."
Yet all this meeting did was confirm the redundancy of the old regime, without stamping the G20 as a real alternative.
President Bush offered his insight as well. "A meeting is not going to solve the world's problems," he said. He continued to say that more meetings would do the trick.
So, in such a vacuum, can the new world economic leadership give us a reason to invest?
Emerging Market Investments
It's hard to find an excuse to be bullish on America right now. Uncle Sam and other historically strong economies seem to be staring blankly at their own shoes, or tripping over them.
Inaction is the rule, and when something like the $700 billion U.S. banking bailout actually gets done, it's extremely sloppy in both planning and execution. A hodge-podge of rate cuts and nationalization schemes hasn't soothed investors either.
So you can't blame India and Brazil, among other top developing economies, for being unwilling to wait around while we do our best Keystone Kops impression.
In India, thousands of entrepreneurs and engineers with experience in the U.S. high-tech sector are heading home every year to expand a native IT hotbed. Ironically, India's homegrown businesses are also helped by restrictive American visa policies.
Our bureaucracy makes it tough for skilled foreign nationals to stay in Silicon Valley and other places, so they repatriate their brainpower and launch startups back in Bangalore or Mumbai.
Infosys (NASDAQ:INFY) is one of these Indian IT firms now leading the world, serving multinational corporations from its base in the country's south. Its management has won awards for excellent service and the way it has built an appreciative global clientele.
To tap Infosys and its local peers, check out the WisdomTree India Earnings Fund (NYSE:EPI). EPI launched last year, after a long wait for an Indian ETF. It holds a combination of emerging tech heavyweights and more traditional stock plays like India's national oil company ONGC.
Over in Brazil, President Lula is the most popular president in Brazilian history. He worked his way up from selling peanuts as a little boy who came to the financial capital of Sao Paulo from the country's impoverished north.
Lula's story is shared by millions in his country and around emerging markets, who know prosperity comes from hard work... Like India, China, and other newly prosperous nations, Brazilians are exploding into the global middle class with a leader who gives them a role model for responsibility and change.
Brazil's policies are also encouraging, and in sync with national needs.
When it comes to fuel, locally grown sugar cane ethanol is several times more efficient than the U.S. corn variety. Brazilian sugar cane refiner Cosan gives you a way to invest in Brazil's biofuel industry, which has been around since the 70s. Cosan trades on the NYSE as CZZ. Plus, more recently, Brazil's national oil company Petrobras has announced major finds off the country's coast. So Brazil's energy independence is all but insured. Petrobras is also available on the NYSE as ticker PBR, and other Brazil stocks are prospering as part of the iShares MCSI Brazil Index ETF (NYSE:EWZ).
The G20 meeting may have been a bust, but at least we got further validation of what I and other international bulls have been saying for years: the balance of economic power is shifting, and so is profit potential for investors.
Geothermal Energy
Geothermal Energy: An Investment In the Future
Whiskey and Gunpowder Geothermal Energy Report
Geothermal Energy
We have found the company that is ready to lead the way on this exciting new energy technology. The company is one of the world's leading vertically integrated companies in the field of geothermal energy. Geothermal energy is one of the cleanest, most abundant sources of energy on the planet and now is the time to know as much as possible about this great new investment. This companies technologies and its subsidiaries engage in the geothermal and recovered energy power business. Before we get into the details of this business, lets take a closer look at what geothermal energy really is.
Geothermal Energy -The Basics
When you think about a useful energy source, you want to think about how the potential energy of any substance is converted into heat energy. For example, coal is known as the "rock that burns". Gasoline provides energy to your car by combusting in the cylinders of your engine via the rapid, explosive release of heat when the gasoline is sparked. Nuclear power produces energy when the radioactive rods in a nuclear pile decay and give off heat, which then is used to raise the temperature of water or some other liquid substance. The bottom line is that when we are looking for energy sources, we are basically looking for ways of obtaining heat energy in some form or another.
Geothermal energy is the next part of the energy industry we've found that is able to produce heat. Extracting stored heat energy from the crust of the Earth produces geothermal energy. It is the energy contained in the in the hot rocks, and the hot fluids that fill the fractures and pores within the rocks, of the Earth's crust. Under the right conditions, geothermal energy can be utilized to generate electricity, and this is why we are interested.
Geological History of Geothermal Energy
According to thermodynamic calculations performed by many a bleary-eyed graduate student over the decades, if the Earth had simply "cooled" from a molten state, it would have become a completely solid mass of iron and rock within a few hundred million years of its formation. But Earth has been an active, dynamic planet for nearly 4.5 billion years, so something must be going on deep inside to keep the planet hot.
It gets so hot down within the Earth that much so-called "rock" is in a molten state, which we observe directly when some of that molten material erupts and forms volcanoes or mid-ocean ridges. In most other areas of the Earth, this heat reaches the surface in a very diffuse state. Due to a variety of geological processes, relatively shallow geothermal resources underlie some areas of the Earth, including substantial portions of many western U.S. states, with much energy potential. Here is a depiction, called the U.S. geothermal resource map, prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy. (See map below)
The geothermal resource map of the U.S. shows the estimated subterranean temperatures at a depth of 6 kilometers (or just under 20,000 feet), which is considered relatively near the surface. As the map makes clear, essentially all of the U.S. has some form of available, near-surface geothermal potential.
The uses to which these geothermal resources can be put are controlled by temperature. The highest temperature resources are generally used only for electric power generation. Current U.S. geothermal electric power generation totals approximately 2,800 megawatts (MW), or about the same as five large nuclear power plants. I am not going to say that geothermal energy is infinite in scale, but the heat sources within the Earth are immense, and a well-managed program has the potential to be operational for many decades, if not centuries.
Geothermal Energy Business
Now that we have looked at the basic geology of geothermal energy, let's look at the business and policy sides of things. First, you should understand that extracting the Earth's heat and selling geothermal energy is subject to the same regulatory structures as are almost all other energy generation and transmission entities in the country. So the 50 state-level public utility commissions (PUCs) control much of the destinies for geothermal producers.
There is plenty of good news for geothermal energy. Once a plant is up and running, geothermal energy is quite reliable. Geothermal energy plants offer a continuously available (24/7) base-load power source, with historic reliabilities in excess of 90%, which is comparable to the reliability of many nuclear plants. Compare this with wind-generated power with 25-40% reliability (the wind does not always blow when you need it), or solar-generated power with 22-35% reliability (the sun sets each night, among other drawbacks). And reliability is a critical issue in terms of operations, because plant owners usually bear the risk of getting charged back by utility customers for what is called shortfall energy, meaning the power that a utility has to go out and purchase on spot market if the designated source is not operating on schedule or up to capacity or promised load.
There is more good news for geothermal energy, in the form of policy support.
Geothermal energy does not deplete like an oil or natural gas deposit. Many hot springs of the world have been bubbling warm water or steam since prehistoric times. So geothermal energy is considered a renewable form of energy production, and in our own era, it benefits from the renewable energy "production tax credit." This tax credit has been extended by the U.S. Congress through 2008, and is expected to receive further extensions in the future. The production tax credit, plus five-year depreciation schedules, means that there is an effective U.S. government subsidy of over 63% of the capital cost of renewable energy projects. (Think of it as spending dollars that cost only 37 cents.) So right away, renewable energy projects, and geothermal energy projects in particular, are beneficiaries of significant investment tax breaks that would make any oilman jealous. And now on to the company that could lead this new industry.
Matt Simmons - considered one of the world's most prominent oil-industry insiders - recently revealed an energy source that he seems to believe could be the only real solution to our energy woes.
That's a pretty bold statement.
But this is Matt Simmons we're talking about. And he is one of the foremost authorities on Peak Oil.
Having once served as energy advisor to President Bush, Simmons now runs an independent investment bank that's acted as financial advisor in more than $123 billion of transactions in the energy industry.
Based on those credentials, you might want to see exactly what it is he's talking about.
The Proof is in the Numbers
Listen.
I've been at this for a long time.
Nearly a decade ago I was telling anyone who would listen to me that very soon, we'd all have an opportunity to clean up in renewable energy markets.
Most laughed and dismissed my analysis outright.
But those who paid attention are now sitting on small... ahem, large fortunes.
Even now, months after the market took a major nosedive, those who heeded our advice and loaded up on renewable energy plays - specifically, the opportunities we were screaming about from the rooftops - are swimming in profits. Stocks like...
- SunPower Corporation (SPWR:NASDAQ) - up 64% in one month.
- Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA) - up 255% in 2 years.
- World Water & Solar Technologies (OTCBB:WWAT) - up 740% in less than 3 years.
- U.S. Geothermal (OTCBB:UGTH) - up 462% in 2 years.
- Arise Technologies (TSX:APV) - up 270% in 1 year.
And the opportunity I'm going to tell you about now - the very opportunity Matt Simmons recently clued us in on - could deliver the same kinds of triple-digit gains...and in less than 2 years!
The Only Energy Resource That Can
Power The Entire Globe...Forever!
Next to solar, the largest source of energy on the planet is ocean energy - the motion of waves and tides. Both sources are inexhaustible, but unlike solar (or really any other energy source on the planet), ocean energy is constant. Day or night, 24/7...it's always working. And it's always free!
Yet today, it's our largest untapped energy source.
In fact, compared to other renewable and non-renewable technologies, it's still very much in its infancy.
But that's all changing, thanks to a very real energy crisis and improved technology that has now enabled ocean energy to compete with every other energy resource in existence.
Just look at what is already being said about wave energy:
"Generation of electricity from wave energy will be economically feasible in the near future." - Science Daily
"Wave Power can produce electricity equal to all the dams that we have in the US right now." - Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition
"The technology has only been available for a few decades, yet we could meet almost 10% of our energy needs from wave power." - The Guardian
"Wave energy is more predictable than solar and wind energy, offering a better possibility of being dispatchable by an electrical grid." - Science Daily
"Wave energy is an emerging energy source that may add a viable generation option to the strategic portfolio." - Electric Power Research Institute
In fact, Matt Simmons is so bullish on energy from the ocean, he's now organizing a facility in Rockland, Maine called the Ocean Energy Institute.
Already, a venture capital fund has been set up to seed commercialized ocean energy ventures.
Based on Simmons' overwhelming success in the energy sector, you can be sure insiders are already set to make a nice chunk of change here.
And you can get a piece of this early action, too.
But time is definitely short.
The World Energy Council just recently released new estimates showing how ocean energy could supply twice as much electricity as the world now consumes.
And now, the big money's starting to pour in.
One company alone has already raised more than $80 million since that announcement.
But compared to what we'll soon see, that $80 million is peanuts.
Because this is, without a doubt, the biggest disruption the energy markets will ever see.
It'll rival the automobile and internet combined.
And the reason is simple...
Aside from water, there is absolutely nothing more crucial to the safety and security of the entire world than robust supplies of cheap energy. We are reliant upon it for our transportation, our food, our medicine, our clothing, our agriculture... it's everything that keeps the world moving.
And as we've already begun to see with oil, it is also the one thing that can bring the global community to its knees, if there isn't enough of it.
So needless to say, any energy resource that's infinite and inexpensive is an energy resource that will shape the next evolution of our energy economy.
And the few ocean energy companies that are producing power right now?
Well, let's just say that these are the companies that will usher in a new way of life, and a new generation of wealth.
Just like those who staked their claim to solar and wind back in the earlier part of this decade have made millions, those who stake their claim to ocean energy now will be in line for similar rewards in just a few years.
In fact, there's one company in particular that we believe could deliver gains in excess of 353% in less than two years.
While marine energy is still "theoretical" to novice energy investors, those on the inside know that the word "theory" no longer applies.
After all, some ocean energy companies are not only producing power right now - they're actually landing power purchase agreements with the major utilities.
There is no better proof that your power generation can generate revenue than a power purchase agreement.
And the company that we recently added to our Alternative Energy Speculator portfolio has done just that.
A very small Canadian firm - one that few people even know exist - recently picked up a long-term deal with a major utility in California to deliver its juice to the grid.
Not surprisingly, there's an avalanche of money chasing this thing now.
But here's the best part...
That power purchase agreement is for one of the company's smallest projects.
Its largest project in Oregon is expected to deliver a full 100 megawatts when completed.
That's enough to power 67,500 homes - or about 23% of all the housing units in the entire state.
Again...
That's one project!
This particular ocean energy company has developed what's known as a wave energy converter. Essentially these converters are modular devices that are moored several kilometers offshore where wave resources are the greatest.
The actual energy transfer takes place by converting the vertical component of wave kinetic energy into pressurized seawater via a two-stroke hose pump. The pressurized seawater is directed into a conversion system which has a turbine driving an electrical generator. The power is then transmitted to shore through an undersea transmission line.
Incidentally, 100 megawatts is more than twice the power needed for all the housing units in the county where this project is being developed.
The company has three additional projects underway too.
- A Portuguese plant with a commercial expansion potential of 100 megawatts
- A small 5 megawatt plant in British Columbia
- And a 20 megawatt plant in South Africa
Of course, this company is also a very speculative play.
After all, the marine energy sector is still in its infancy compared to all the other energy sources we use today. And it's only now starting to gain a lot more attention, and more importantly, the large influxes of investment capital it needs to expand.
But that's what the Alternative Energy Speculator is all about - locking in on those little, undervalued stocks that most investors will only hear about after the fact.
There's no doubt that it's a risk vs. reward scenario.
Our portfolio, however, is living proof that - if you know how to play this sector - you can risk very little, and make an absolute fortune.
In fact, just on our three speculative solar plays, Alternative Energy Speculators have been cleaning up.
Take a look at these returns from just one year:
- Solar Stock #1 - gains in excess of 156%
- Solar Stock #2 - gains in excess of 67%
- Solar Stock #3 - gains in excess of 270%
I'd tell you the names of these stocks, but they're still open positions, as we expect a lot more out of these before we take our profits.
We're also ahead on both of our speculative geothermal plays with one currently up 29.5%, and the other up 40.51%.
Of course, there's also our golden ocean energy play. This one's already delivered gains in excess of 126% since our initial recommendation.
Still, We've Barely Scratched the Surface
That's not even close to what we expect to pocket in the next couple of years - as the company gets closer to delivering power under the terms of its power purchase agreement.
Right now, the stock is insanely cheap - less than $0.20 a share.
But by the time these guys start delivering power, this could easily be a $1.00 stock.
Folks, you cannot find a better ground floor opportunity than that.
Granted, this is also a very thinly-traded stock.
But so was a little stock we recommended in Green Chip Stocks a few years ago, called World Water & Solar Technologies (OTCBB:WWAT)
We picked that one up when it was going for about $0.30.
In July, 2007, the stock hit a high of $2.52 a share.
That's a 740% gain in less than 3 years!
That, my friends, is how you get rich by playing these speculative alternative energy stocks.
And that's exactly the reason we started the Alternative Energy Speculator - to focus solely on these speculative alternative energy stocks that continue to deliver massive gains.
You see, with our flagship research advisory, Green Chip Stocks, we focus more on the safer, less-speculative "green" stocks. But after doing a bit of research, we found that many of our members wanted more of those higher-risk, yet higher-reward plays, like...
- World Water & Solar Technologies (OTCBB:WWAT) - delivered gains in excess of 739%
- XsunX (OTCBB:XSNX) - sold for a 312% gain
- Regi U.S. (OTCBB:RGUS) - sold for a 218% gain.
There are plenty more, too.
But this isn't about the profits we've already delivered.
This is about the next round of profits we're going to deliver for you - thanks to the Alternative Energy Speculator...and a very lucrative ocean energy stock that we expect to deliver gains in excess of 353% in less than two years.
To get the full story on this company all you have to do is accept this charter membership to the Alternative Energy Speculator.
As soon as you do, you'll instantly receive access to our latest report, Ocean Energy: A Tidal Wave of Profits.
You'll also receive a user name and password for the Alternative Energy Speculator web site - where you can view past issues, keep track of the stocks in the portfolio, and read all of our other reports...including the ones on those solar and geothermal stocks I mentioned earlier.
In addition, every week you'll receive detailed updates on the companies in the Alternative Energy Speculator's portfolio. You'll learn how they're doing, the latest in their research, and any breakthroughs that come through in the sector.
Plus, the second we decide to add or sell a company, we'll contact you - instantly.
You'll know at what price to get in, how much you should expect to make and most importantly, when to sell.
These instant alerts are too important for the weekly issue.
And that's not all!
We know that there's more to "easy" money in the world than strictly energy. In fact, while people think that oil's the most important resource that makes the world go round, it can't touch our other area of expertise...
It might sound strange to some, but fresh water is in seriously scarce supply in many parts of the world. Take a look at some of the water research unveiled in my report:
- Only 2% of the world's water is freshwater
- By 2025 nearly two-thirds of the world's population will be water stressed
- 450 million people in 29 countries currently face severe water shortages
And, right now, out of the hundreds of water companies out there, my team has located the five best on the planet. Each one services, and profits, from a different angle of the water industry - and in countries all over the globe.
You can read all about these companies and start collecting MASSIVE dividends today with your second bonus report, Water: Profiting from the Disappearance of the World's Most Valuable Resource!
The Cost for All This?
Here's the deal. Considering all the time that goes into uncovering these little-known, but highly profitable energy plays found in the Alternative Energy Speculator and the substantially larger gains involved, we had no choice but to make it somewhat pricier than our flagship Green Chip Stocks service.
In other words, we had to cover our own cost of unearthing these gems. Since we do a great deal of travel, meet with CEOs, and inspect many of the companies with our own eyes, it tends to get pricey... especially when you consider how many opportunities we turn down before we actually find one worth getting excited about.
That's why the normal membership fee to the Alternative Energy Speculator is $495 a year.
But listen. Because this is our introductory offer, I'm offering a one-shot deal:
Pick up the Alternative Energy Speculator, including your Bonus Report, Ocean Energy: A Tidal Wave of Profits, and the second water report, Water: Profiting from the Disappearance of the World's Most Valuable Resource, for only $199 a year!
That's a full 70% savings off the regular annual price - and you still get both reports, weekly emails, urgent buy and sell updates, and full access to the Alternative Energy Speculator site!
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