Whether China’s threat to restrict export of rare earth minerals materializes or is resolved through trade negotiations, the episode underscores the fragility of U.S. supply chains and the importance of developing domestic sources. Nowhere is this more evident than in the energy sector where climate policies have made dozens of countries more reliant on imports than […]
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The following is a guest article by Paul McDonnold. Despite having brains that weigh less than a paperclip, bees seem to understand Economics 101. A single worker, beating its wings hundreds of times per second, can visit thousands of flowers per day to gather scarce resources of pollen and nectar for conversion into a valuable
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The last two decades should have been a period of accelerating economic development for Africa, South America and much of Asia. Discoveries of abundant oil and gas supplies offered a rescue from poverty, industrial stagnation and poor access to electricity and other basic services. Instead, they got a man-made disaster, a deliberate slowdown of
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President Trump was not a happy camper when he stepped off a faulty escalator on his way to address the United Nations General Assembly recently. By the time he had finished speaking, many in that self-important assemblage were in an even worse mood. Trump was not the only world leader firing bullets into the UN’s
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The following is a guest article by Ronald Stein and Sid Abma. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data centers are coming, and so are the natural gas power plants that will be required to provide continuous, uninterruptible electricity to power many of these facilities. These power plants today can operate at well over 90% energy efficiency.
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The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act expired on September 30, despite numerous efforts to continue the program that for 25 years has enabled sub-Saharan African businesses to export their products to the United States duty-free. The chief culprit, it appears evident, is the petty politics largely designed to prevent the Trump Administration from functioning. Congress
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We were promised a “green” utopia free of fossil fuels, powered by sunshine and breezes. However, the net zero hobbits living in this imaginary shire were blissfully ignorant of hard realities dictated by physics, engineering and economics. Once trumpeted by corporate giants and governments alike, the vision of a world without greenhouse gas emissions is
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Changes that occur in the atmosphere occur in three dimensions. That should come as no surprise, even with the wrap-up last week of Climate Week NYC. Yet so much thinking on climate change happens on a two-dimensional level. Certainly, academic and government studies delve into the dimensional complexity of the airy environment, but the study
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The total warming of the hottest 3 days in each summer month averaged across 400 mostly-airport weather stations is only 1.2 deg. F over 40 years. I recently posted about the weather observations from Reagan National Airport that showed the warmest days of summer have experienced no statistically significant warming in the last 40 years, despite this
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Many are the parents who have had to help a small child overcome fears of monsters under his bed. A wise parent will comfort the child, assure him he’s protected, teach him about God’s protection. But that wise parent won’t stop there. He’ll show the child there’s no monster under the bed. That’s not how
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