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What’s in a name?

…capitalist society” — a transitional condition shaped by what it was replacing, not a clean design dropped in from outside. “The practical consequence is significant. If you handed ten newly…

GOP Senators Pick Their Pork

…pork. $2 billion for a clean coal plant defunded last year on grounds of “inefficiency”. Maybe Dr. Chu has some ideas about how to correct the problem but it doesn’t…

Fixing Monopolistic Utilities

…TVA fuckup (a retaining wall collapsed, letting loose a huge flood of flyash — the stuff left after burning coal — that buried houses, killed people AND left a huge…

The US economy is in a funk

…cost with one another. The huge US market would attract producers from around the world and rejuvenate the US auto supply chain. Similarly, accelerating clean coal gasification, nuclear power and…

Renewables 2023

…2025, renewables surpass coal to become the largest source of electricity generation. Wind and solar PV each surpass nuclear electricity generation in 2025 and 2026 respectively. In 2028, renewable energy…