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Geothermal Power Is Emerging As An AI Energy Source For The Trump Administration
Geothermal Power Is Emerging As An AI Energy Source For The Trump Administration
A little-used corner of the clean-energy market is getting a potentially decisive trial in Utah. At a government-backed research site, engineers are testing whether equipment and expertise developed during America’s shale boom can turn deeply buried heat into a dependable source of electricity, according to Bloomberg.
Conventional geothermal power works only where heat, permeable rock and underground water happen to occur together. The newer approach tries to manufacture those conditions. Wells are drilled several miles down, water is...
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May 21, 2026 / Tyler Durden
The News-to-Death Ratio Strikes Again
The News-to-Death Ratio Strikes Again
Authored by Carl Henegan and Tom Jefferson via The Brownstone Institute,
There is a peculiar arithmetic that governs modern health reporting, one that has very little to do with actual risk. Hans Rosling captured it neatly during the 2009 swine flu episode, when he calculated a “news-to-death ratio” of 8,176-to-1. In other words, for every death attributed to swine flu, there were over eight thousand news stories. Tuberculosis, by contrast, received less than 0.1 news stories per death over the same period.
If that sounds absurd, it...
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Mar 27, 2026 / Tyler Durden
UAE Pushes For Hormuz Security Force, While Turkey Argues Against Gulf Entry Into War
UAE Pushes For Hormuz Security Force, While Turkey Argues Against Gulf Entry Into War
It's one of those things that sounds nice on paper, but when missiles and drones are inbound, no one is going to want to be on a military ship sitting in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz: the United Arab Emirates, which has been among the hardest-impacted Gulf states in Iran's ongoing retaliation, is pressing for a multinational maritime taskforce to reopen vital oil transit waterway, the Financial Times reports Friday.
The UAE, with a navy that's not...
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Mar 18, 2026 / Kyle Anzalone
Trump Lifts Jones Act for 60 Days in Effort to Lower Oil Price
President Donald Trump has issued a waiver that suspends the enforcement of the Jones Act for 60 days. The Jones Act is a protectionist law that was meant to bolster the domestic shipbuilding industry by forbidding foreign ships from transporting goods between US ports. “President Trump’s decision to issue a 60-day Jones Act waiver is […]
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