CITY JOURNAL………. “Eventually, the cost of intelligence, the cost of AI, will converge to the cost of energy. How much you can have—the abundance of it—will be limited by the abundance of energy. So in terms of long-term strategic investments for the U.S. to make, I can’t think of anything more important than energy.” That…
RealClearPolicy………. It’s no secret that the Republican’s “Big Beautiful Bill” plans to axe large swaths of mandates and billions of dollars in subsidies directed at achieving a so-called “energy transition.” If that budget axe falls, it will be the proverbial third strike that puts to rest the idea that the U.S., never mind the world,…
CITY JOURNAL………. It may seem nearly impossible to sort the signal from the noise surrounding the current attempts to use tariffs to reshore American manufacturing. But given the stakes, it’s worth examining some underlying facts and persistent myths.
RealClearScience………. In part one of our interview, Mark P. Mills, the Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics and the author of numerous books, dove into his twenty-year-old – yet timeless – treatise on energy, The Bottomless Well, (co-authored with Peter Huber) and explored the tenets of “energy realism.” In this second and final part, we again look…
RealClearScience……… Energy powers everything we do, and for most of humanity’s 300,000-year history, that energy has come from boring old biomass. Grains, nuts, berries, and meat fueled our muscles. Wood burned in fires. All the way up to 1850, biomass provided more than 90% of the estimated 7,791 terawatt hours (TWh) of energy we consumed in a…
CITY JOURNAL………. In his March 4 address to Congress, President Trump proclaimed that he had “terminated the ridiculous Green New Scam,” referring to assorted Biden-era Green New Deal policies directed at an “energy transition.” The weekend before, the Wall Street Journal featured a lengthy essay with a title seemingly calibrated to pre-bunk Trump’s expected remarks:…
