Summary: This is part 2, following yesterday’s post, What’s causing the crash in oil prices? Today we look to the future. Oil prices will rise again. Let’s not waste this opportunity to prepare. . Contents The bottom line: oil prices will rise again. When should we prepare for peak oil? For More Information. . (5) …
Summary: NASA dreams of manned space flight to the planets, and spends billions to do so. They focus on “how” with no thought of why, repeating the error that led to the failure of Apollo. Like the State Department (wrecked in the 1950s, never fixed) and DoD (same mistakes in a succession of failed wars), …
Summary: We cannot find the few dollars needed to study serious threats like Climate Change and Peak Oil. But the military effortlessly obtains funds to study star travel. Our nation’s physical infrastructure rots. But the military effortlessly obtains the funds for beyond-cutting edge projects like the WaveRider X-51A. Is this how empires die? Can we …
Summary: We pay for much of the basic research done in the US, but have astonishingly little access to the results. That can be changed. This is a small reform, giving us practice in collective action of the kind necessary to take back America. The longest trek begins with a small training hike. Take this …
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Summary: A follow-up to The face of America’s decline. Another in a series about America’s inability to make the investments in our future necessary to maintain our prosperity. A look at America’s R&D spending In 2007 we spend $406 billion, 28% of which was by government. Half of the government’s spending is military-related (not including DoE’s spending …
