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George Will’s upcoming column—you can see an advance copy here—mentions the Electrification Coalition, in this case in the context of legislation to support electric vehicles proposed by Sen. Carl Levin and Rep. Sander Levin...
Posted Friday, January 28th, 2011 at 1:37 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Supply, National Security
I consider myself to be among the lucky few who have had the privilege of experiencing an East African safari. The majesty of the wildlife in its natural and largely unspoiled habitat was the trip of a lifetime, and enough to ke...
Posted Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 at 10:49 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification, Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
This week’s Bloomberg Business Week—increasingly a favorite airplane read of ours, by the way—contains its usual mix of digestible insights on politics, markets, and technology. But two articles stand out as particularly i...
Posted Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 at 3:30 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, National Security
Election alert! China bashing breaks out in the House of Representatives! As E&E reports today (http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2010/09/30/3/) "the U.S. House yesterday voted to slap penalties on China for undervaluing i...
Posted Thursday, September 30th, 2010 at 8:18 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Renewables
Boeing recently contracted to deploy remote sensing technology to confirm rare earth mining claims held by U.S. Rare Earths, Inc. in Idaho and Montana, and to help search for new deposits. In doing so, US Rare Earths is moving o...
Posted Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 at 2:06 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, National Security
One of the clear lessons from the BP/Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil disaster is that too much deregulation (or more accurately too little oversight) can have monumentally bad consequences. Stephen Power in today's WSJ (htt...
Posted Thursday, September 9th, 2010 at 2:25 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil Dependence
We find it worth clarifying the widely stated, yet mistaken assertion that by shifting to electric vehicles and clean energy we are simply substituting one kind of foreign dependency with another—oil for rare earth elements.
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Posted Monday, August 23rd, 2010 at 12:27 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
Multiple media cover the release today of recommendations from an impressive group of CEOs -- the American Energy Innovation Council (www.americanenergyinnovation.org). Like the CEO and retired military-led Securing America's Fu...
Posted Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 12:04 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence, Renewables
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