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NBC Wonders: Can America ‘Afford Not to’ Spend Billions on High-Speed Rail?
By Kyle Drennen On Thursday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams praised China’s high-speed rail system and lamented that United States had not done the same: “China is rocketing ahead of the U.S....
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The Sun Is Not Always Your Friend
By Owen Graham In the early morning of August 9, the sun released a massive solar flare—the largest in four years—sending huge blasts of radiation out into space. Thankfully, the solar eruption was...
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Obama Administration Approving Only 35 Percent of Gulf Drilling Plans
By Rob Bluey A new report from a New Orleans-based group reveals that the Obama administration is approving just 35 percent of the oil drilling plans for the Gulf of Mexico so far this year. It is also...
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Brisbane Flood – January 2011 – There’s Senator Bob Brown – Or The Evidence
By Andrew Bolt ~ At the time of this flood in mid January of 2011, I made a Post that was necessarily long due to the nature of the information. For background on what happened with respect to the...
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Renewable Power Australia – Can Wind Power Make 20% By 2020?
Challicum Hills Wind Power Plant near Ararat in Victoria Australia. Australia has the aspiration to be able to provide 20% of all its electrical power from renewable sources, and to achieve this by...
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Is a Nuclear Renaissance Approaching?
By Jack Spencer ~ When the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted last week to approve permits to begin construction on two nuclear reactors, many hailed the decision as the start of a nuclear...
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Senator Lamar Alexander on the Wind Energy ‘Scam’
By Lachlan Markay and Brandon Stewart ~ Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is the ranking Republican on the Appropriations subcommittee dealing with environmental issues. He is currently working to end...
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10 Mind Blowing Facts about America’s Energy Resources
From The American Dream, a regular section at Family Security Matters ~ The United States is not running out of oil. In fact, nobody on the entire globe has more energy resources than the United...
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Time to Return ARPA-E to Its Original Mission
By Nicolas Loris ~ Despite having a budget for only a few years, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is quickly becoming a microcosm of the larger problems associated with the entire...
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America’s Actual Health and Welfare Crisis
By Paul Driessen ~ EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson says we face grave threats to human health, welfare and justice. She’s absolutely right. However, the dangers are not due to factory or power plant...
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Storm Warning: The Gloomy Forecast for EMPs
By Jessica Zuckerman ~ Almost a week after the D.C. area was pummeled with raging storms, many individuals are still suffering in the July heat without lights, phone lines, and, perhaps most...
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Mining Boom Slows In Australia – The Miners Weren’t “Greedy” When They Warned Us
By Andrew Bolt ~ Wakey, wakey. The shelving of the Olympic Dam expansion is not just a $30 billion loss to South Australia and the nation. BHP Billiton is also saying: Now will we wake up from this...
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XpressWest High-Speed Rail Project: Speeding Toward a Taxpayer Bailout
By Emily Goff and Michael Sandoval ~ Outdated forecast data containing rosy economic assumptions and signaling potential cost overruns plagues the planned $6.9 billion XpressWest high-speed rail...
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10 Ways the Obama Administration Is Hurting America’s Energy Economy
By Nicolas Loris ~ One of the few bright spots over the past few years in America’s economy has been energy production, but this has occurred largely in spite of this Administration’s energy policies,...
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Electric Power Blackout: The Power of One
By Ken Chrosniak ~ There exists a clear and present danger to you, your family and your community; the loss of sustained electric power. As of now, absolutely no government entity (except for the...
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Sessions And Ryan To LaHood: Halt The High-Speed Train To Vegas
By Emily Goff ~ Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R–AL) and House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R–WI) sent a letter yesterday to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, urging...
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AP Claims California’s $68 Billion High-Speed Rail Got ‘Overwhelming’ Voter...
By Tom Blumer ~ In a Sunday morning report which tries to put the best possible face on a project which appears to be on track to make the $22 billion “Big Dig” in Massachusetts look like a petty cash...
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Obama Said This With A Straight Face
By Amy Payne ~ “Thousands of people are signing up and saving money as we speak.” Yes, President Obama actually said that yesterday about Obamacare. As we all know, for the vast majority of people, the...
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Former Australian Labor Government Kept Quiet About Another $1.4 Billion NBN...
By Andrew Bolt ~ The former Australian Labor Government knew its NBN plans were blowing out – again – by up to $1.4 billion but kept the news secret: A CABINET briefing document obtained by The Weekend...
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A How-To For Economic Growth: North Dakota’s Surge
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ A modern retelling of “The Little Red Hen” would include ducks and pigs that not only didn’t help grow the wheat and bake the bread, but who wanted to eat the bread after...
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Reject All Energy Mandates: It’s Just Another Subsidy
By Nicolas Loris With cap and trade out of the realm of possibilities, Members of Congress have turned their attention to mandating so-called clean energy. Some Members hoped for a lame duck vote on a...
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Try Winding Back Wind Power When Unions Super Funds Are So Involved
By Andrew Bolt Productivity Commissioner Gary Banks warns we really are in for a “tough time” if commentators are right and productivity reform under Julia Gillard is at a standstill. A typical...
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The Obama Stimulus Super Train to Nowhere
By Conn Carroll Before you read this Post, please, oh please take the link to this short video. Obama replaces costly high speed rail plan with high speed bus plan This explains a possible replacement...
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Grid Act Impact: Results of New Consensus Warning of a Year-Long Blackout
By Charles L. Manto EMP Attack or Extreme Solar Storm Would be More Catastrophic Than Previously Thought The following has been excerpted from a paper entitled: Grid Act Impact: Results of New...
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U.S. Must Gird for War in Very Small Places
By James Carafano, Ph.D. It was the 1950s, and the Air Force had a problem. The brass were responsible for building a new fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles. But state-of-the-art electronics...
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Residential Air Conditioning – The Big Green Target
This Post details the failure of politicians over a number of years, and how the blame for their failure is now being sheeted home to the people themselves. Yesterday, I mentioned the incongruous...
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Victoria’s Green Disaster Is Just A Taste Of Gillard’s
By Andrew Bolt The Victoria mentioned in the title refers to Australia’s second largest State by population…..TonyfromOz The real surprise is that anyone ever thought these targets were remotely...
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Australia’s National Broadband Network – NBN (Or Should That Be Numerous...
By Andrew Bolt The Australian Labor Government is planning a new fibre optic National Broadband Network. The cost to taxpayers is around $36 Billion. The Government called for tenders for the rollout...
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Obama’s High-Speed Spending on Slow-Speed Rail
By Mike Brownfield Want a fast way to blow some taxpayer dollars? Buy a ticket on President Barack Obama’s high-speed spending trains. High-speed rail is one of the president’s pie-in-the-sky green...
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Rants, Lies, Subsidies and Job-Killing Policies
By Paul Driessen President Obama’s speeches sum up his views on oil, natural gas and energy prices in just 44 words. “We have less than 2% of the world’s oil reserves. We’re running out of places to...
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Cost Of Replacing Australia’s Coal Fired Power – $210 Billion (Minimum)
Until you are aware of what the consequences are for reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions, then you are not aware of all the facts. Keep in mind that the figure of $210 Billion in the title is a...
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CO2 Emissions – Concentrating Solar Power – The (Failed) Saviour
Concentrating Solar Power Tower We are told that for the sake of the Planet, we need to cut back on the emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) that so called ‘deadly’ Greenhouse Gas that is causing runaway...
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Environmentalists vs. Renewable Energy
By Rael Jean Isaac It’s become a truism that environmentalists want alternative energy—from wind, sun, water—to replace our reliance on fossil fuels. The trouble with this truism is that it isn’t true....
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Boring Bridges and Roads
By Alan Caruba In November 2010, Business Week, noting the $72 billion set aside in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the “stimulus”, cited a 2009 report by the American Society of Civil...
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Parasitic Power: Solar Energy’s Five Fatal Flaws
By Viv Forbes ~ Abengoa Solar – PS10 and PS20 Solar Power Tower Plants The sun is the most important energy source on Earth. It provides our daily warmth and light and the rotation and orbit of the...
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Intriguing Mystery In Tibet (Part One) The Airport In The Wilderness
By Anton Lang ~ Why would China construct a major airport in one of the most inaccessible places on Earth, right on the bank of a River prone to probably the greatest potential for major flooding on...
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Like Obamacare? You Will Love ObamaNet
By Deroy Murdock ~ In his relentless drive to leave no aspect of American life unmolested, Obama’s next stop is cyberspace. Having “reformed” U.S. medicine, Obama now aims to “repair” the World Wide...
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Australian Election 2016 – Spend, Spend, Spend, Spend
By Andrew Bolt ~ Yes, for this coming election here in Australia, the Labor Party is racking up billions on its “spendometer”, while the country slowly goes broke. But the Liberal Party Coalition...
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Define “Critical” Electrical Power Supply
By Andrew Bolt ~ Curious. Brian Toohey: Ausgrid, the state-owned NSW electricity distributor, has denied Treasurer Scott Morrison’s claim it provides “critical” communication services to business and...
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Powering Countries, Empowering People
Affordable energy brings jobs, improved living standards and pursuit of happiness By Paul Driessen ~ For 16 years, in a scene out of pre-industrial America, Thabo Molubi and his partner made furniture...
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WashPost Keeps Alive Russia-Grid Hacking Story Despite Spectacularly Falling...
By Tom Blumer ~ A serious case of miscues happened to the Washington Post after reporters Juliet Eilperin and Adam Entous posted a Friday story (now time-stamped as if it was Saturday) claiming in its...
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How Trump’s Presidency Could Retool The Auto Industry
By Josh Siegel ~ President-elect Donald Trump’s public campaign to push U.S. companies to make their products in America is already having an impact, especially on one of his favorite targets: the auto...
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No, Robots Won’t Put Us All On The Unemployment Line
By Betsy McCaughey, PhD ~ Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is taking flak for saying he’s “not worried at all” about robots displacing American workers. Yet he’s spot on: Robots will soon spark a...
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Trump Waives Jones Act To Get Relief To Puerto Rico
By Fred Lucas ~ President Donald Trump temporarily waived a shipping regulation to boost relief efforts to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico after pressure from members of Congress on both parties. White...
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US Shouldn’t Hold To Strict ‘Gold Standard’ On Saudi Nuclear Deal
By Katie Tubb ~ Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is visiting the U.S. this week, and one issue on his agenda will be to continue discussing collaboration with the U.S. to develop a nuclear power...
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Easing The Logjam In Pipeline Infrastructure
By Craig Rucker ~ When many of us think of infrastructure, roads, rail lines and airports probably come to mind. Few of us, however, consider the vital role America’s pipeline and energy infrastructure...
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Batteries Cannot Make Renewables Reliable
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Utilities are starting to experiment with adding batteries to wind and solar projects. These storage projects are feeding the mistaken belief that batteries can cure the...
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Modular Nuclear Reactors For Defense And Disasters
By Duggan Flanakin ~ While there has been little interest of late in developing new-generation nuclear reactors to power the U.S. electric grid, some new initiatives at the Department of Defense –...
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China Hydro In Tibet (Part Two) The Voyage Of Discovery
By Anton Lang ~ Could the Motuo Hydro Electricity project in Eastern Tibet be one of the most astonishing engineering achievements ever constructed? It is currently still only under active...
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Earthquake Coming? FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr Demands End To Big Tech’s...
By Alexander Hall ~ FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr declared that the burden of supporting the communications infrastructure should no longer be reliant on a telephone service model developed back in...
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