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• Engineers Are Now Wearing the Poet's Mantle

  Published 20 April 2011 | viewed 6,618 times

  F. Scott Fitzgerald supposedly told Ernest Hemingway, “The rich are different from you and me.” And Hemingway supposedly replied, “Yes, they have more money.” Engineers…

• Obama's Empty Gasoline Tank

  Published 05 April 2011 | viewed 4,191 times

  There is a piece of doggerel which goes: They said it couldn’t be done.So I went right to it -- that thing they said Couldn’t…

• After 40 years of Nuclear Passion, It Hurts

  Published 21 March 2011 | viewed 6,999 times

  For 40 years I've written about nuclear power, defended it and believed, as I still do, that it offers the best signpost to a great…

• Stand Up to NIMBY - and Create Jobs

  Published 15 February 2011 | viewed 7,913 times

  In Britain, they call it “DADA.” It means Decide. Announce. Defend. Abandon. In America we call it “NIMBY” — “not in my back yard.” It…

• Israel Set To Join the Rich Countries Club

  Published 08 February 2011 | viewed 16,776 times

  From Israel, there is good news and bad news. The good news – and it is huge – is that Israel will soon be awash…

• Oil Price Could Doom Obama

  Published 31 January 2011 | viewed 19,796 times

  Like death and taxes, the price of oil is always with us. And like taxes, it may be President Barack Obama’s worst nightmare at election…

• Who, How and Why: $140 Oil and $5 Gas

  Published 13 January 2011 | viewed 20,736 times

  According to a loosely-organized apocalyptic Christian movement, May 21, 2011 will be the "end of days."  On or about that same date, the price of…

• Euro Shows One Size Doesn't Fit All

  Published 07 December 2010 | viewed 3,916 times

  When do two diametrically opposed economists, one from the left and one from the right, agree? Answer: When the subject of the euro comes up.…

• Energy Tells Tale of Fading West, Booming East

  Published 19 November 2010 | viewed 7,203 times

  The patient is the United States and the diagnosis is “Asia shock.” It is a psychological disease with physical symptoms and no known cure. However…

• US Government Agency Faulted in Nuclear Abandonment

  Published 27 October 2010 | viewed 4,525 times

  If you are heading north on the Chesapeake Bay, just above where the Patuxent River enters it, and you will see the Cove Point liquefied…

• They Died Before the Oil Ran Out

  Published 16 August 2010 | viewed 13,964 times

  There is an open secret in the oil industry that dare not speak its name: peak oil. Well, two did speak its name and gained…

• Batteries Are the Shocking Truth about Electric Cars

  Published 19 July 2010 | viewed 20,929 times

  Can white elephants come in green? President Barack Obama flew to Holland, Mich., on Thursday to attend groundbreaking ceremonies for a new lithium-ion battery plant,…

• Cautious Obama is Hurting Future Oil and Electricity Supply

  Published 15 July 2010 | viewed 10,531 times

  From somewhere--inside the White House or the Department of Energy--President Obama is getting some pretty awful advice. It's bad enough that he's been persuaded that…

• Bill Gates and the Energy Research Dilemma

  Published 11 June 2010 | viewed 7,735 times

  There is an idea that has been around for a long time, at least since the fall of 1973: All that stands between the United…

• Regulation Era – The ‘60s Return

  Published 28 May 2010 | viewed 9,808 times

  The decade of the 1960s stood orthodoxy on its head. It was a time when alternative everything got a hearing. Expertise came into doubt; the…

• Gulf Spill Puts US Energy Bill on Slippery Slope

  Published 21 May 2010 | viewed 13,785 times

  With energy, Senate Democrats find themselves between a rock and two hard places. Nonetheless, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., have introduced…

• Obama's Energy Policy: A Labyrinth of Contradictions

  Published 13 April 2010 | viewed 9,549 times

  When it comes to energy, there is an incoherence to President Barack Obama’s policies. This incoherence is embedded in his administration in the person of…

• Environmentalists Admit Being Wrong for 40 Years - Shackles of Nuclear Power Being Removed

  Published 30 November 2009 | viewed 10,890 times

  Although very little happened, Nov. 24 was a red letter day for the nation's nuclear power industry. No new nuclear reactors were purchased, no breakthrough…

• The Benefits of Natural Gas

  Published 30 September 2009 | viewed 15,293 times

  Natural gas is nifty stuff. It burns twice as clean as other fossil fuels, leaves no ash to be disposed of and is critical to…