Next month, the world’s first floating nuclear power unit (FPU) dubbed ‘Academik Lomonosov’ will be towed via the Northern Sea Route to its final destination in the Far East, after almost two decades in construction...
Iran, which offers free energy to mosques, now has around 100 miners occupying places of worship, generating much-needed income of around $260,000 a year...
Botswana’s elephants pose a danger to life, limb, and property. So, in May, the government indicated that it would lift the hunting ban. This drew outrage from many, but from not rural Botswanans who have witnessed their property destroyed, neighbors killed, and lives disrupted by elephants. President Masisi argues that controlled big game hunting would transform the elephants from vermin into something of economic value. This, he concludes, would save the elephants. President Masisi is right. I know. I spent considerable time studying the problem of wildlife conservation in Africa many moons ago.
If climate change is real, then government subsidies are causing it. Even well-intentioned politicians are powerless to reverse the process. Gold could.
In the first five months of 2019, imports of agricultural products from the US crashed 55.3% YoY. Much of decline was due to a 70.6% YoY decline of soybeans in the same period...
Attitudes about nuclear energy are changing, with pundits on bothsides of the aisle touting its benefits for extremely efficient and relatively clean energy...
China could build as many as 30 overseas nuclear reactors over the next decade as part of the Belt and Road Initiative, which projects could bring in more than $145.5 billion to China by 2030.
"In other words, before any of the science had been done, the IPCC’s assumption was that man-made activity was responsible and that Nature was not an active participant in a process within its own sphere of interest."
