Posts by Llewellyn King:
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Nuclear Blast from the Past Might Fix Oil Spill
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Steven Chu, the secretary in charge of the Department of Energy, needs to get the agency’s historian on the phone. Then he needs to have a word with the directors of the nation’s three top weapons laboratories: Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore. A side call should go to the Department of Energy’s office at [...]
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Bill Gates and the Energy Research Dilemma
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There is an idea that has been around for a long time, at least since the fall of 1973: All that stands between the United States and an abundant energy future is a lack of spending on research and development. It is as though the Knights Templar could find the Holy Grail, if only the [...]
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The Return of The Regulators
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Brace for the return of The Regulators. Many Democrats and a few Republicans believe that the nation would have been saved many disasters — from the shenanigans of Enron, the financial crimes of Bernie Madoff and the subprime mortgage crisis to the explosion at Massey’s Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia and the [...]
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Big Challenges for Big Engineering
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There is a back story to the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the revelation of the extraordinary failure and triumph of engineering. In a world of computers, materials sciences and nanotechnology, big engineering remains awesome but often overlooked. Everything to do with the Gulf disaster is part of the big [...]
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The ’60s Return
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The decade of the 1960s stood orthodoxy on its head. It was a time when alternative everything got a hearing. Expertise came into doubt; the phrase “some decisions are too important to be left to the experts” was heard everywhere. The seer of the day was Ralph Nader. Government was only trusted as a regulator. [...]
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