As America wakes up from the dystopian dream that everything we need will always be readily available at affordable prices, even official Washington has recognized that we have a problem. And it’s not China. According to S&P Global, the U.S. has a sizable resource base, including ample reserves of copper, lithium, and several other critical […]
NIMBY and NOPE buried U.S. minerals mining Learn More »
This year, European nations announced plans to pursue artificial intelligence. National leaders announced AI spending goals totaling hundreds of billions of euros in efforts to catch up to the United States. But AI requires huge amounts of electrical power, conflicting with Europe’s commitment to achieve a Net Zero power grid. Since ChatGPT released their AI
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The following is a guest article by Ronald Stein, Robert Jeffrey, and Olivia Vaughan. Sub-Saharan Africa faces a dire electricity crisis. Over 600 million people—more than 40% of the continent’s population—lack access to electricity, a figure projected to rise to 657 million by 2030 without intervention. The global nuclear renaissance is well underway—evidenced by companies
Africa is Pioneering Nuclear Innovation as it Faces a Dire Electricity Crisis Learn More »
When most people think of ASEAN – a diverse association of Southeast Asian nations that include Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam – they picture Thailand’s beaches, Singapore’s gleaming skyline or Indonesia’s temples. What they don’t see is an economic juggernaut that will drive some of the planet’s largest
In ASEAN Nations, Coal Is a Physical Manifestation of Progress Learn More »
Imagine the irony of labeling a substance as “hazardous” only to discover that the true peril lies not in the substance but in the act of its vilification. That is the case with carbon dioxide (CO₂) and how it has been mischaracterized to establish globally suicidal energy policies. In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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The following is a guest article by Dr. Samuele Furfar. If a self-described leader finds that nobody is following, is leadership present? Perhaps. The next question might be, where is the leader headed? These queries could well be put to the European Union’s makers of energy policy, who fancy themselves as groundbreakers for a supposed
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The following is a guest article by Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka. It is both timely and impactful to deepen public and governmental policymakers’ understanding of electricity, including the essential role of fossil fuels that are driving global development with the products and transportation fuels that are dependent on those same fossil fuels. In less
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A couple of months ago, I obtained a permit from the US Forest Service to travel 4×4 and off highway vehicle trails in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The permit cost $25 plus postage, and was valid for a year. The trails my group rode on a Saturday turned out to be crowded with
Bureaucrats in Ranger Hats: Why Government Park Management Fails Learn More »
In July, a bone-chilling cold wave swept across South America, plunging nations like Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay into an energy crisis that laid bare the fragility of their power systems. Record-low temperatures, driven by an Antarctic air mass, pushed electricity grids to the brink, forced governments to ration gas, and left thousands without power for
South American Cold Underscores Role of Oil and Gas Learn More »
The push for solar energy is carving a path of destruction through the Thar Desert in India’s Rajasthan, where native species maintain a delicate balance of life now being sacrificed to an absurd and futile climate agenda. This is an act of ecological vandalism that pretends moral superiority while destroying the natural world it supposedly
Solar Blasphemy in India’s Thar Desert Learn More »
