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With over 1,108 GWs of coal-fired generation, how much of China’s carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions ride the prevailing “Westerlies” and pollute our Western skies? As early as 2014, studies in the U.S. showed that air pollution derived from Chinese manufacturing did not....

Soon it will begin - 64 men’s college basketball teams competing for the NCAA Division I Tournament Championship.  For many of us, our work and family schedules do not allow us to see many college basketball games during the season. But when the NCAA issues the March Madness “brackets”, we ready our favorite chair for the 2 ½ week event and make our selections in the company pool.

When the early Egyptians adopted the Sumerian calendar, dividing the year into 12 months of 30 days, the calendar was actually 5 days shorter than the Earth’s journey around the Sun. When they realized this error, the Egyptians simply decided to place those five “non-conforming” days at year’s end and use those days “to party”, leaving the solution of correcting the calendar to later generations! And so, the story begins …

An almost forgotten clean energy source has again taken the spotlight in power generation. In 1960, Calpine and its partners completed the 1,590 Mw. “Geysers” geothermal power station – the first of its type – and, last year, Google completed their own station, with a unique design, to power their data centers in Nevada.

Lamar Hunt might have dubbed it the Super Bowl but it was Joe “Willy” Namath, from the University of Alabama, who made the name a reality. Sure, there were NFL and AFL-NFL playoff games before Super Bowl III but it was not until this brash, brazen 25 year old confidently predicted and delivered a NY Jets win over the mighty NFL Baltimore Colts that the name was enshrined.

One of the key metrics in the automotive industry is “return on invested capital”, and for many in the Electric Vehicle (EV) market there are few positive returns! Consider the plight of both Ford and General Motors.

Since November, 2021, Congress has passed three massive spending bills intended to pump large sums of money into the U.S. economy, much of it into the industrial sector addressing infrastructure, semiconductor manufacturing and green energy projects.

Imagine that it is December 31st, 1900. You are having a lobster dinner at Café Martin on Madison Square, New York City. It is 9:30 PM and your waiter approaches your table to announce that for the balance of the evening it is “Champagne Only”. Lobster and champagne until the early hours of the morning!