California Moves To Rename Cesar Chavez Day Before March 31 Holiday

When Uncle Sam Turns Venture Capitalist, What Could Go Wrong? Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, The battery recycler Ascend Elements was riding high in 2023, flush with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. The seed money provided to the Massachusetts company, which launched in 2017, was one of several large bets the Biden administration placed on the green future as it essentially created a venture capital arm at the Department of Energy and other agencies. In the movies, VCs almost always score big through their early investments in future...

Miniature Floating Nuclear Plants Could Supply Clean Power To Greek Islands Authored by Prabhat Ranjan Mishra via Interesting Engineering, Miniature floating nuclear power plants (FNPP) could help Greek islands by supplying power, according to a new study. Such plants could also help decarbonize Greece's non-interconnected islands, according to the study by the Deon Policy Institute, ABS, Core Power, and Athlos Energy. The concept of floating nuclear power plants is not new. (Representational image) A floating nuclear power plant is a nuclear installation in which one or more reactors are integrated into a floating...

The US intelligence community believes that Iran is reconstructing its military facilities at a surprising pace.  CNN reported on Thursday, speaking with four US officials familiar with intelligence that indicates that Iran has rebuilt its military production facilities faster than estimated. Two sources said that Tehran has already started producing new drones.  While President Donald […]