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Productivity To Surge with AI. Do the Politicians Know?
There is every chance that the world’s industrial economies may be about to enjoy an incredible surge in productivity, something like the arrival of steam power in the 18th century. The driver…
Read MoreCourt Ruling Mandates Confusion, Judicial Activism
Myths are powerful things — so powerful that one has been endorsed by the Supreme Court and now has the federal government by the throat. Its effects will be far-reaching…
Read MoreThe AI Revolution Will Rival the Industrial One, and It Has Begun
A new age in the human experience on Earth is underway. It is an age of change as profound — and possibly more so — than the Industrial Revolution, when…
Read MoreTech Giants Want In on Electricity, Google Has a Foothold
During the desperate days of the energy crisis in the 1970s, it looked as though the shortage was permanent and we would have to change the way we lived, worked…
Read MoreThe Uses and Limits of Global Climate Conferences
COP-28 is now a memory, and what I often call the “Annual Climate Trade Show” has ended along with its typical manufactured controversies and silly symbolic battles. My favorite this…
Read MoreGlobal Warming Comes Home to Roost
If We Keep Electrifying, We Will Run Out of Power
If you punch in “outage map” in a search engine, you will get a series of maps, ranging from the entire country to state by state and even smaller jurisdictions.…
Read MoreNew Year Faces Old Problems: War, Immigration and Energy
U.S. Electric Utilities Face More Demand, Less Generation
U.S. Electric Utilities Face More Demand, Less GenerationBy Llewellyn King The nation’s electric utilities are facing revolutionary changes as big as any they have faced since Thomas Edison got the whole…
Read MoreSpare Us the Thoughts and Prayers — We Are Past That
By Llewellyn King America, spare me your thoughts and prayers. Get off your backsides and do something. Wringing hands over the gun lobby, lamenting the love of guns by so…
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