Category: ‘ National Security ’

 

Friday Political Roundup Looks Ahead To Sunday George Will Column

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...

The High Cost of Rare Earth Metals

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...

Connecting the Dots in Business Week

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...

Trade, technology and energy 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...

China and Rare Earths: Beginning to Feel Like the Russian/Ukrainan Relationship Regarding Natural Gas

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...

And the pendulum swings

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...

Why Rare Earths Are Not Like Oil

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. ...

The Rise of Gas OPEC?

Natural gas will assume an increasing share of the U.S. energy mix over the next several decades. That is one of the few certain trends in the energy field today, rightly identified by a recent MIT report on the future of natural ...

Hey, we’re not lagging everybody!

We hear a great deal these days about how the Chinese are eating our lunch with respect to both energy security and emerging clean energy technologies.  Yet, just as we finished ahead of the Brits in our group at the World Cup, a...

Innovative energy policy

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...
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