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Engineering ignorance is bliss

Accepting that the average Joe has a technology threshold, promoting energy conservation has two strikes against it ~ most people don’t realize how complicated the buildings they live in really are, and they would rather […]
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People hate the environment anyway

 The environment is a nuisance to most people – icy snow roads making their drive to work (in increasingly expensive vehicles) difficult; drought making it necessary to water the lawn regularly (and pay extra for […]
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Nuclear Power for the future

France gets almost all its energy from nuclear power plants, Japan well over half its energy. Every other industrialized nation is building nuclear power plants like crazy – even Iran. The U.S. hasn’t licensed a […]
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The Ugly American is back

The United States became prosperous on $1 a barrel oil. Now we’re consuming so much oil that third world nations are trying to become prosperous on $40 a barrel oil. America has 1% of the […]
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Rain forests are the planet’s lungs

Sanctions should be considered against Brazil and other nations permitting the destruction of the rain forests, including lobbying to have Brazil excluded from the International Space Station project. If they need jobs and solid industry […]
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Work fare or welfare?

Technology – like the Israeli’s walling off Gaza – isn’t always the best solution, especially if the alternative creates good jobs. Would you rather pay ten trillion dollars over the next generation to create and […]