Many minerals that are key to building electric vehicles are produced outside the United States. But the Biden administration keeps halting or preventing mining projects. At the Heartland Institute, Miles Pollard and Austin Gae review the current state of mining projects. (Direct quotes follow.) In January, the Environmental Protection Agency blocked development of a proposed…
Some Promising Ideas on Adapting to Climate Change
In November, the United States issued its Fifth Assessment on Climate Change. You may have missed it. It’s a “congressionally approved interagency effort” issued every five years. I’m not exactly sure why we need a series of U.S.-based assessments on climate change when we have the periodic reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change….
The End of Barbed Wire?
PERC (the Property and Environment Research Center) is pioneering a virtual boundary that will allow elk and other wild species to follow their traditional migration patterns. PERC’s announcement calls it “a virtual fence network that allows the rancher to remotely map and manage livestock through a series of signal towers and GPS collars worn by…
Wednesday Links
- A vivid reminder: The Earth is getting greener . . . thanks to rising CO2.
- Here’s why lithium prices have fallen.
- The new advanced nuclear reactors are “not on track.”
- And yet . . . China, India, and Russia are building nuclear power plants.
- Everything you need to know to navigate the COP meeting starting in Dubai Nov. 30. (And more!)
Is Renewable Energy in Better Shape Than We Thought?
Offshore wind power is faltering, local resistance to “Big Wind and Big Solar” is mounting, and electric vehicles are clearly struggling. But Ed Ballard of the Wall Street Journal says that policy-makers, including the International Energy Agency, are missing the enormity of the investment in alternative energy. “Last year, more than four-fifths of the world’s…