Here’s another piece on capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air (DAC). As I’ve said, I find this subject impossible to take seriously; it’s even harder to conceive than carbon capture and sequestration CCS, for several reasons: The apparatus that …
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Wishing Fisker Good Luck with Its New Battery EV, But ….
My only reaction to the new EV offering from Fisker, the “Ocean,” is closer to PTSD than anything else. About 10 years ago, venture capital giant Kleiner Perkins backed the luxury plug-in hybrid “Karma” to a disastrous end. I happened …
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The Second U.S. Civil War
From this piece from MSN: Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday posted an ominous message on his Truth Social platform in which he declared that the “cancer” coming from “the danger within” the United States was a much bigger problem than any external threat. …
Access to Abortion
Yes, pregnant women with certain medical conditions who can’t get access to abortions meet one very specific and inevitable outcome: death. To hear the media cover this, however, women are more concerned about high gasoline prices. Somehow I don’t buy …
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Examining Our Working Lives
Here’s what a professor of theology at Georgetown University told me when I was young, when I happened to have asked him about his career, and his life more generally: Most people work 50 weeks of the year doing something …
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The Purpose of Electric Transportation
This is intriguing. Some things to consider: There is no doubt that the environmental footprint associated with electric transportation represents a huge improvement over the combustion of fossil fuels, and that delta is widening steadily as zero-carbon sources of energy …
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The Hill: Trump Attack Leaves GOP Wondering if He Cares about Senate Majority
From this: Former President Trump’s Monday assault against Joe O’Dea, the GOP’s Senate nominee in Colorado, is angering Republicans while leaving them wondering if he cares about the party winning back the majority in the upper chamber. O’Dea, a pro-abortion …
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Fetterman Has a Committed Ally
Growing up in Philadelphia, I was privileged to go to school with Morrie Schreibman, a smart and principled young man who ultimately moved to Israel and made a successful career for himself in software. All these years later, Morrie has …
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Building Strong Children
The tragic decline in the fiber of American society is the result of many factors: the decline in education, mass incarceration, blatant and unpunished corruption in government and the corporate world, and yes, the slow disappearance of the nuclear family. …
Are We Open To New Ideas?
When I walk into a crowded place, perhaps a grocery store, I often wonder how many of the adults in this place are open to ideas that may run counter to what they already believe. In our highly politicized world …
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