Nobody is saying it, but the advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning may be springboarding the increased intensity of the competition for nuclear fusion – which many are now saying is far less than “30 years away.” The burning question among the few who are fully aware of the stakes in this race is […]
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The following is adapted from Mere Economics: Lessons For and From the Ordinary Business of Life by Dr. Art Carden and Dr. Caleb Fuller. Used with permission of B&H Academic. Learn more and order here. “The fifteen dollar minimum wage,” says US Representative Nancy Pelosi, “is a financial necessity for our families, an effective stimulus for our economy,
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Sixteen years ago, Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo published Dead Aid, where she demonstrated an inverse relationship between receipt of government-to-government aid and economic growth and prosperity. Government-to-government aid, she said, fuels corruption, encourages inflation, increases recipient nations’ debt load, kills exports, causes civil unrest, frustrates entrepreneurship, and disenfranchises citizens. Moyo’s better idea was freer trade (European
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The world is on fire, and not in the way climate alarmists would have you believe. For years, governments of wealthy democracies sold the fantasy that wind turbines and solar panels could replace coal, oil and natural gas. Now, with war in Eastern Europe, explosions in the Middle East, and the global oil market once
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The world would be safer if industrial emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) were stopped, according to the teachings of many schools, the regulatory schemes of some governments and the hyperbolic public relations campaigns of a climate industrial complex. But the truth is happier: CO2 is an irreplaceable plant food that is increasing. Carbon dioxide – the
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While Western leaders and climate activists obsess over the smokestacks of India and China, they ignore the quiet giant of Southeast Asia: Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation and an economic powerhouse, is making grand moves in securing sources for fossil fuels. With an economy expected to expand annually by more than 5% and a
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The following is a guest article by Charles Rotter. Abstract Rivers and streams are an important pathway in the global carbon cycle, releasing carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) from their water surfaces to the atmosphere1,2. Until now, CO2 and CH4 emitted from rivers were thought to be predominantly derived from recent (sub-decadal) biomass production and, thus,
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You wake up to an alarm, flick on the light, brew coffee, and drive to work. Every step requires energy – the stuff that shares the coin of physical reality with matter, the E in E = MC2. It keeps homes warm, food fresh and economies running. Supplying 80% of the world’s primary energy, coal,
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The Trump administration’s effort to cut federal spending has raised alarms at Meals on Wheels America, which says that funding through the Older Americans Act (OAA) was already not keeping pace with the rapid growth in the senior population — and with costs that rose dramatically in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meals on Wheels America
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The Yuxi Circle holds 4.3 billion people and no illusions about how modern life works. Fossil fuels still power the path out of poverty. The ruling class trades in carbon outrage like it’s gold. Sanctimony fuels its crusade against oil, gas, and coal — never mind that those very fuels built the modern world. The
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