This certainly seems like good news: The USGS is saying that Appalachia contains an estimated 2.3 million metric tons of undiscovered, economically recoverable lithium, enough to replace 328 years of U.S. imports at last year’s level. … As lithium demand … Continue reading →
I’ve long been in favor of nuclear power. Maybe more of the world is now going in that direction, having discovered that the green alternatives don’t work very well. For example: Over the past few days, the politics and policies … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “Bob Wilson.”] Yesterday there was a blackout in Spain, Portugal, and parts of France. From Michael Shellenberger: It was one of the largest peacetime blackouts Europe has ever seen. And it was not random. It was not … Continue reading →
In 2022 the California legislature passed a bill with the intention of implementing “equitable” electricity charges – in other words, charge the non-poor more. Must have seemed like a great idea to the California legislators at the time, but guess … Continue reading →
It boggles the mind. This is the news: For 35 years, the Emsland nuclear power plant in northwestern Germany has reliably provided millions of homes with electricity and many with well-paid jobs in what was once an agricultural backwater. Now, … Continue reading →
Biden and John Kerry, still hard at work in their dotage (and yes, I think Biden is sentient enough to be part of this): In a pathetic bid to “show results” from the latest global climate-change confab, the Biden administration … Continue reading →
The latest news: Almost two months after the Russian Nord Stream pipelines blew up in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish prosecutors have found traces of explosives at the underwater site and declared that the incident was an act of “gross … Continue reading →
This happened yesterday: “The inflation report is out. Have you seen gas prices around here in LA? It’s 7 bucks a gallon almost,” a reporter asked Biden as he paid for food at a Los Angeles-based taco shop. “Well, that’s … Continue reading →
This really is no surprise: President Joe Biden (D) is reportedly preparing to ease sanctions on socialist Venezuela to allow a U.S. oil company to resume production there, which comes as OPEC announced early Wednesday that it would be significantly … Continue reading →
Indeed, it is. I don’t understand how people can think that it’s smart to reduce your own energy supply in order to become dependent on the supply of others. How on earth would that even help the environment, if the … Continue reading →
Back and forth, back and forth: Nuclear exit 1 began in 2000. The government back then consisted of the center-left Social Democrats and the Greens. The latter were in power for the first time, having grown out of the hippie … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This ties in somewhat with the post I just published, about China buying US land.] It was obvious that Europe’s dependence on Russia for energy would be a bad thing. But for some reason it doesn’t seem to have … Continue reading →