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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has stated that the global energy transition will cost $78 trillion through 2050 or $3 trillion a year, of which the United States should spend $1 trillion per year–more than it spends for national defense.
The United States is being forced to build huge amounts of new transmission capacity for wind and solar energy resources that are located far from demand centers and require enormous land areas.
Air New Zealand has jettisoned its 2030 goal to cut carbon dioxide emissions, which it had proposed to do by buying renewable energy jet fuel that costs as much as 5 times traditional jet fuel and buying new more efficient airplanes.
As the Israel-Hamas War enters its tenth month, the threat of a new front opening in Northern Israel with Hezbollah is higher than at any other point in the War.
Walz’s policies as governor resemble the Biden-Harris administration’s Inflation Reduction Act philosophy: Use a combination of regulation and public spending to force expensive, and often unreliable, “renewable energy” on Americans.
Within a year, China will own enough solar manufacturing plants in the United States to serve about half of the nation’s solar panel production capacity.
Beaches were closed in the tony beachfront town of Nantucket, Massachusetts when an offshore windmill blade exploded into pieces, many of which washed ashore, endangering beachgoers with shards of fiberglass.
Local Native people have sued the Administration for restrictions on oil development they argue threaten to reverse progress that has improved their lives.
"The U.S. has an abundance of LNG that has proven to be a vital tool in hard-power balancing against Russian influence in Europe."
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's Caleb Jasso on why the U.S. should "unpause" its review of LNG export applications:
The growing demand for reliable electricity by tech companies driven by AI and data centers is creating new opportunities for the U.S. nuclear energy industry.