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Pentagon Backs Ambitious Plan To Beam Solar Power From Space By Haley Zaremba of OilPrice.com Space-based solar power just got another powerful vote of confidence. The United States Department of Defense just inked a contract with solar energy company Overview Energy to “design, build, and test a homing beacon that will enable its space-based solar energy system to accurately beam power from orbit to receiving solar arrays on Earth,” according to a brand new report from Interesting Engineering. The idea is that solar panels would orbit the Earth, collecting sunlight straight from...

If This Was A Normal Week... Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Maybe it was because I was in Europe that last week didn’t seem “normal.” Maybe that is why some of the things that I would think are most topical don’t seem topical (or at least weren’t what markets were responding to?). Or maybe it was just a weird week, where the underlying narrative wasn’t as much about the usual suspects, and was much more about supply (of bonds, energy, chips), stop losses (in every market everywhere), and dismal...

UAE Retracts Warning About "Potential Missle Threat" Update: it appears the earlier warning by the UAE was a false alarm: UAE SENDS ALERT SAYING 'PLEASE DISREGARD THE PREVIOUS WARNING' UAE ASKS PEOPLE TO IGNORE PREVIOUS WARNING * * *  Earlier Is the ceasefire over (again)? Moments ago stocks hit session lows and oil jumped from post-war lows after the UAE issued a phone alert warning of potential missile strikes. Iran's Tasnim promptly followed up, saying that according to news sources, there were explosions heard in Dubai. And while the initial report sent futures to session lows... ... , and oil...