Outdated Energy Grid Poses Existential Threat to the Renewable Revolution
Green energy skeptics cite batteries as a potential constraint on greater EV use. The electrical grid is another possible choke point.
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China – A Sub-Imperial Ally of the West?
IMichael Hudson and Patrick Bond debate the trade posture of China, such as whether its Belt and Road initiative is capitalist or socialist
Read more...Limits to Green Energy Are Becoming Much Clearer
Gail Tverberg throws cold water on green energy optimism.
Read more...Resource Limits to American Capitalism & The Predator State Today
James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of the US from industrialism to his so-called predator state: finance-led, military-centered corporatism
Read more...The Romance of Shipping Container Lashing
The material realities of the ocean and the workers lashing down the containers.
Read more...McKinsey: Net-Zero By 2050 Needs $9.2 Trillion Annual Investment
McKinsey gives a not surprisingly big estimate for the cost of energy transition. But it’s unlikely to have considered radical conservation.
Read more...‘No More Hiding’: Sanders Says Make GOP Vote on Popular Policies
Sanders: “The American people have a right to know where their senators stand on the most important issues impacting their lives.”
Read more...Manchin Takes Aim at Build Back Better, but His Real Focus is on West Virginia
What does Manchin want?
Read more...Filth, Automobiles, and Our Misguided Obsession With Traffic
Ah, the distaste for urban squalor, um, traffic. Why do a lot of people want to turn cities into something else?
Read more...Subway Service Delays Feared as Omicron Hits the Express Track
New York City as a canary in the coal mine: how Omicron is already hampering staffing of public transportation.
Read more...Carbon Pipelines in the Hawkeye State
A new, enormous boondoggle?
Read more...Build Back Better Verges on Collapse as Manchin Attempts to Kill Child Tax Credit
How Manchin is putting a lump of coal in Biden’s Christmas stocking.
Read more...Amazon’s Deathtrap Warehouse in Edwardsville, IL: Will Bessemer, AL Be Next?
Social murder in Edwardsville.
Read more...The Romance of Shipping Containers
How international standards enabled containers to be stacked and shipped.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Is This the End of the Unreformable Democratic Party?
Have the contradictions of the Democratic Party’s overarching strategy finally become untenable?
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