Science & Technology
Solar Power Generation: Boon or Boondoggle
Polls consistently show that Americans think well of obtaining electrical power from the sun. It’s free, and there’s so much of it. All...
Court Strikes Down FCC’s “Net Neutrality”
In an important action defending freedom of speech on the Internet, the U.S. Court of Appeals has struck down an attempt by the...
Read moreObama’s Boring Plan: Throw a Wrench in Offshore Drilling
President Obama is opening limited areas on the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, and Alaska to offshore drilling in a supposed effort...
Read moreU.S. Wasted NASA and Opportunity for Energy Independence
I was there. I ought to know. I served as editor-in-chief of NASA’s newspaper at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas,...
Read moreKlamath Uses Geo-Thermal Energy — With Tax Money
Klamath Falls, Oregon, uses geothermal power to meet many of the needs of the town. Hot rocks and geysers keep the sidewalks warm...
Read moreNanotech Energy Source Discovered
Could you imagine a laptop battery that lasted for 500 hours? How about an electric car that boasts a range many times that...
Read moreObama Pledges Nuclear Power Loan Guarantees
President Obama has promised up to $8.33 billion in loan guarantees for construction of new nuclear reactors in Georgia. A White House press...
Read moreA “Driver’s License” for Internet Users?
At the recent meeting of the globalist World Economic Forum in Davos, attendee Craig Mundie — chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft...
Read moreObama: Expand NASA’s Budget; Change Its Mission
The Obama administration’s proposed budget will radically change the agenda for NASA, while increasing the agency’s budget. ...
Read moreGoogle’s Glitch for “Islam is…”
For all that has been said about the advances in the capacity of Internet search engines to aid in research, a recently discovered...
Read moreObama Names Schmidt Chief of Cybersecurity
President Barack Obama on December 22 named Howard Schmidt, an Internet security expert with experience in both the private sector and government, as...
Read morePrivate Space Flight Nearing Launch
As NASA’s manned space efforts falter in the face of the looming conclusion of the shuttle program and by a finding of the...
Read moreCERN Atom Smasher Sets New Record
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has developed the fastest proton accelerator in the history of science — the Hadron Collider, which...
Read moreFTC Enacts Stifling Rules for Bloggers
Bloggers who review products online are about to be hit with onerous new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations supposedly designed to foster transparency....
Read more“Smart Grids” & Monitoring Your Power Use
As Americans continue to wonder what happened to the $787 billion in stimulus money and the economic recovered our leaders said would arrive...
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