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Nuclear Fusion:  Don’t Believe the Hype!

Nuclear Fusion:  Don’t Believe the Hype! Photo by Ilja Nedilko In a dramatic scientific and engineering breakthrough, researchers at the Bay Area’s Lawrence Livermore National Lab recently achieved the long-sought goal of generating a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than was directly injected into a tiny reactor vessel. By the very next day, pundits […]

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Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype?

Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype? It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways. This was first apparent after the high-profile Copenhagen conference in 2009, when a four-page non-agreement was praised by diplomats, but denounced by well-known critics as […]

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Don’t Believe The Hype On U.S. Shale Growth

Don’t Believe The Hype On U.S. Shale Growth The OPEC Free Fall There is a popular narrative going around that I want to address in today’s article. Last November, after several months of plummeting crude oil prices, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) met to discuss the oil production quotas for each country […]

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There Are Far Fewer Terror Attacks Now Than In the 1970s

There Are Far Fewer Terror Attacks Now Than In the 1970s Putting the Terror Threat In Perspective The terror threat is greatly exaggerated. After all, the type of counter-terror experts who frequently appear on the mainstream news are motivated to hype the terror threat, because it drums up business  for them. The same is true for government employees.  As former FBI […]

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HYPE, BROKEN PROMISES AND SHALES

HYPE, BROKEN PROMISES AND SHALES The term shale revolution has been used so much that it almost has no meaning anymore. But were shales ever really the energy panacea promised or merely a self styled hype machine? Would the frenzy in drilling ever have truly taken off if it weren’t for cheap money? These are […]

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