Smart Money Is Betting On A Helium Boom

Two years ago, three pre-eminent materials scientists, John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino, were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their groundbreaking work in the development of lithium-ion batteries.  The Nobel committee noted that Whittingham developed the first functional Li-ion battery in the early 1970s, though it failed to become a commercial success due to its excessive volatility. Meanwhile, Goodenough built on Whittingham’s work and successfully developed more powerful batteries while Yoshino…