Energy

Where Are The Pro-Nuclear Democrats?

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About 15 years ago, I visited a high-ranking official at the Department of Energy at his office in Washington. We chatted for 30 minutes about the obstacles facing nuclear energy deployment in the US  read more »

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Global Power Demand is Soaring

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Electricity is the world’s most important and fastest-growing form of energy. More proof for that assertion came a few days ago when the International Energy Agency  read more »

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Kamala Harris is More Radical on Her Energy Policies than Joe Biden!

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Kamala Harris is oblivious to humanity’s addiction to oil as she is to these two basic facts:  read more »

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Offshore Wind Scandal is Worse Than You Think

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Two of Europe’s biggest energy companies are abandoning the SS Offshore Wind.

In May, Shell, the UK-based oil and gas giant (2023 revenue: $317 billion), announced that it was cutting staff from its offshore wind business  read more »

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Numbers Don't Lie

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During his 16-year career in the NBA, Rasheed Wallace was among basketball’s most intimidating power forwards. He was also among the most volatile.  read more »

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As the US follows Germany’s green deal, YOU should anticipate uncontrollable electricity prices

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Germany was the first country to go “green.” Today, Germany now has some of the world’s highest electricity prices, and the number of Germany’s corporate insolvencies in March 2024 reached the highest level on record  read more »

The Green Road to Tyranny

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In all the hysteria about the threat to democracy connected to the bombast of Donald Trump, an arguably greater long-term threat is mounting, though all but ignored  read more »

Vaclav Smil Calls Bullshit on Net Zero

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In a 2019 interview, Vaclav Smil described himself as “just an old-fashioned scientist describing the world and the lay of the land as it is.  read more »

What the Media Won't Tell You About the Energy Transition

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Over the past few days, I’ve searched the NewsBank archive for uses of “energy transition.” One of the earliest uses of that now-ubiquitous phrase occurred in the Christian Science Monitor in 1981.  read more »

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