Trade tensions continue to mount between the U.S. and China. This is sad, in that our trade relationship in agriculture with China was proceeding just fine, year after year. Notice the use of capitalization in “Economically Hostile Act,” as if …
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On What Basis Are You Bullish on Gold?
Do savvy investors take advice from right-wing Trump-supporter talk-show hosts? “This is the age of faith, of hope and of God,” he says. And of gold too, I guess.
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There Is No Way to Prevent the Winners from Winning–and That’s a Good Thing
In virtually all arenas of technology in which there are (or were at one time) many different competitors, we inevitably reach the point that “the winners win and the losers lose.” In renewable energy, we recently said goodbye (except for …
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Tagged with: biofuels took its last breath when Chevron gave up about a decade ago after 30 years of effort, concepts like hydrokinetics geothermal and biomass, decarbonize the energy and transportation sectors, if this civilization is to deal effectively with environmental collapse, in automobile drive trains we have electricity, in renewable energy we have solar and wind
Americans Would LOVE High-Speed Rail, But . . .
There are a few reasons that we in the United States don’t have high-speed rail; perhaps the main one is shown at left. China is a command (rather than market) economy, meaning that the government, rather than private enterprise, can …
Is This a Good Investment?
Well, that depends. Do you think it’s a good idea to invest in a product you know nothing about, in a market you know nothing about? What about the people? A) You’ve never met any of them, and B) Their …
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Was Solar Thermal a Scam?
The meme here implies that solar thermal was ill-conceived from the start. Here’s a fair assessment of what happened: Near the close of the 20th Century, the world began to recognize an intense need to replace the fossil fuel sources …
Investment Opportunity?
Maybe I’m just cynical, but I’m uncompelled by start-ups’ claims that early investors are positioned to disrupt some huge industry. Take the people at left, “Miso Robotics,” for instance. Is the use of robotics rapidly replacing human labor in fast-food? …
Why Would Any American Want Trump?
There are two main answers to Mia Farrows’s question here: 1) They’re too dimwitted to see that Trump is, in fact, an ignorant, delusional, selfish, cruel, and boorish criminal. 2) They think some of these characteristics are actually advantageous in …
From Senior Energy Analyst Robert Rapier
Here are a few thoughts that had not occurred to me: When companies get caught “cooking the books,” the fallout is generally brutal. We’ve seen it before—Enron, WorldCom—where shady accounting led to total collapse and bankruptcy. Even when a company …
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A Liberal Arts Education
My alma mater, Trinity College in Hartford, CT, has been named to LinkedIn‘s inaugural Top 50 Colleges list, ranking #42 nationally and #4 among liberal arts colleges. This ranking recognizes schools that “best set their graduates up for long-term career …
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