Of Life and Lithium
A look at the implications of demand for lithium thanks to plans to increase electric vehicle sales.
Read more...A look at the implications of demand for lithium thanks to plans to increase electric vehicle sales.
Read more...Carbon stored underground could leak through old wells. How regulators plan to handle that is under scrutiny.
Read more...Similar to how US overreach made Russia and China allies, so too have US policies in the Middle East lead Iran and Iraq to team up.
Read more...Plans suffer from design flaws, cost overruns, and a reliance on Russia for multiple stages of the nuclear fuel cycle.
Read more...The US is using complicated and limited-in-practical-effect programs to increase electric car sales rather than allow in cheap Chinese models
Read more...Texas is counter-sanctioning Big Finance firms over Net Zero initiatives designed to choke money flows to fossil fuel businesses.
Read more...The promise of artificial intelligence is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation.
Read more...Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan for renewable energy could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.
Read more...Germany continues to self-destruct, more austerity planned for EU, Ursula von der Leyen’s “tools” are sharpened to deal with prole backlash.
Read more...Foreign Affiars recycles a 75-year-old strategy from George Kennan that no longer fits the geopolitical realities of the world in 2024.
Read more...Evidence from the New England Journal of Medicine, that petrochemical output, particularly plastics, may be behind the rise in many ailments.
Read more...Why are European elites “on the side of Ukraine’s freedom” so eager to curb freedoms at home? The silencing of opposing viewpoints accelerates in Italy as support for Project Ukraine declines.
Read more...The US continues to pretend to be Doing Something to stop Houthi interference with Israel-related shipping in the Red Sea.
Read more...A heavily-researched Wall Street Journal article on Russian oil sanctions evasion is half baked.
Read more...AI runs on power-hungry equipment that uses millions of gallons of fresh water. Policymakers are weighing the costs.
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