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Can We Make the Power Grid Great Again (MPGGA)?

Published on July 6, 2025 By sirrahc

“The path to a reliable energy future lies not in top-down mandates, but in innovation, cooperation, and respect for the institutions that safeguard our freedoms.” — Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation This is not an article about technology but about policy, which allows, disallows, promotes, […]

Science, Politics, Public Perception, and Wasted Money

Published on August 2, 2015 By sirrahc

I am still slowly working my way through Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics, 4th ed. I don’t think I expected the topic of air/water pollution to come up in a tome on economics, but it does make sense, as you’ll see. Cries for increasing efforts toward environmental (i.e., ecological) purification are common — all in the […]