The curtain is falling on the world’s most expensive soap opera. For decades, a cast of unelected bureaucrats and subsidized academics fought to keep the production alive, but the audience…
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Honeywell CEO Vimal Kapur: Powering Data Centers with Renewables is “Against Physics”
“Even after 3 or 5 years more innovation?” “It’s against physics”.
Eye-rolling climate science from China
From the “central committee told me to pay lip-service to China’s net-zero pathway” department …
Claim: Trump Providing Free Military Support to Greenland will Alleviate Climate Concerns
Activists seem keen for the USA to go back to subsidising Europe’s defence budget.
Dismantlement of South Africa’s Ferrochrome Industry
South African leaders must pivot to an energy agenda that accepts the present reality: Coal and natural gas are indispensable for industrial competitiveness – at least until affordable, reliable, on-demand…
Global Warming Sustained a Naval Power That Dwarfed Vikings
The story of the Chola Empire is a record of what human ingenuity can achieve when the climate cooperates. Their ships sailed on prosperity sustained by a warm, fertile planet.…
U.S. and China Are Headed for an AI Collision
Given the economic importance of AI to countries throughout the world, the competition between the United States and China is regrettable. But it’s probably also inevitable. China is not abiding…
Asia Is Going Nuclear and the United States Should Help
Asia is the fastest growing region for nuclear energy production, and the most consequential for major-power competition.
Bill McKibben: “Trump … assault on environmental norms is more shrill than confident”
“… When historians look back at 2025, … the story they will tell is … the U.S. … surrendered … primacy to its … adversary …”
Climate Change Weekly # 565— Foreign Elites, China Fund American Climate Alarm
IN THIS ISSUE: Foreign Elites, China Fund American Climate Alarm Wyoming Wind Development Blocked New U.S National Security Strategy Touts Importance of Energy Dominance
Claim: The USA Securing Critical Mineral Supply Chains Threatens the Global Climate
Apparently the USA has to stay dependent on China for Rare Earths, otherwise the planet will suffer a climate catastrophe.
As China launches an AI Manhattan Project, US AI Support is buckling under High Energy Prices
“… While American AI researchers struggle with a fragile power grid, Chinese developers now treat energy availability as a solved problem. …”
American-Japanese Pact Signals Ascent of Energy Realism
The U.S. and Japan are shedding the paralysis of irrational climate policies with a strategic pact covering rare-earth minerals, critical components for semiconductors and next-generation nuclear reactors.
Reuters: “They [China] will lose” if the World Retreats from Renewable Energy
“… China is acting as a guarantor … They invested a lot on the green economy. If there’s any kind of involution, they will lose. …”
Rare Earth Minerals, Etc from China … Or The USA?
Now we must begin temporarily impacting some pristine areas to locate, evaluate and extract strategic materials – and end our dangerous and needless dependence on unfriendly and unreliable sources, before…
Lee Zeldin Says It’s ‘Very Telling’ China Wants To Keep ‘Biden EPA Rule In Place’
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin told reporters Tuesday that it is “very telling” that China would want to keep a “Biden EPA rule in place.”
China Threat Calls for Ideologically Free Energy Policy
Ultimately, energy independence is not merely an economic issue; it is the bedrock of national sovereignty. A nation that cannot power its homes, fuel its industries, and move its military…
The Slowly Mounting Mineral Shock
In minerals, models that minimize or ignore chokepoints and social license realities will steer the world into the very emergencies we want to avoid. We don’t need aspirational scenarios. We…
Place Your Bet on the Future of Energy: U.S. Or China
So how are you going to bet? Here’s my bet: The entire idea of an energy system based on wind, solar and batteries will not work and will fail, probably…
How the West Snookered Itself in Energy Geopolitics
It is not as if the historical and political differences among the three great Eurasian powers – China, India and Russia – will all be resolved quickly under the pressure…