In 1619, we had a great event in world history and a great event in American history. In 1619 in Germany, Johannes Kepler published his fabled third law of planetary motion. This law asserts that the square of the time of revolution of a planet is proportional to the cube of the distance the planet…
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September Issue 2019
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Ed Mortimer, Featured Blog
Infrastructure: The Bipartisan Opportunity Congress and America Needs
Washington, D.C. can be known for its partisan reputation, and we have seen many legislative failures at the hands of the different parties being unable to find common ground. However, modernizing America’s infrastructure is the prime example of a great opportunity to change the narrative and show the American people that our representatives can put…
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Electric Vehicles in Germany Emit More Carbon Dioxide Than Diesel Vehicles
By IERA study by the IFO think tank (https://www.ifo.de/) in Munich found that electric vehicles in Germany emit 11 percent to 28 percent (https://www.brusselstimes.com /allnews/business/ technology/55602/electric-vehicles-emitmore-co2-than-diesel-onesgerman- study-shows/) more carbon dioxide than their diesel counterparts. The study considered the production of batteries as well as the German electricity mix in making this determination. Germany spent thousands…
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Bakken to surpass record output despite gas bottlenecks
ESAI Energy reports crude and condensate production from the Bakken shale basin will surpass current record output into 2020. In the company’s recently published North America Watch, ESAI Energy points to increasing rig productivity and efficiency gains in areas outside of the Bakken core that are translating into high growth rates for the basin as…
Larry Bell
Texas, Calif. Wise Up to Surveillance Dangers
Recent and recurring news report images of masked Hong Kong protestors under further cover of umbrellas, tearing down lampposts bristling with government-equipped surveillance cameras along with Bluetooth sensor connectivity, should serve as a serious harbinger warning to all of us. Demonstrators prudently fear that those “smart” lampposts are a big part of Beijing’s move to…