Why is it right for Americans to provide low-cost loans to its solar panel manufacturers, but when China does it, it is an illegal subsidy and demands tariffs in response? In an article featured on Forbes.com, Hank Campbell and Alex Berezow investigate the US policies that have led to the current boom in solar panel manufacturing – and why the surge has resulted in revenue growth...
read moreThere are 20,000 miles of pipeline in Nebraska criss-crossing the Ogalalla aquifier. Â A company wanted to add 400 more but President Obama overruled scientists and declared the addition environmentally risky. So the Keystone XL extension did not happen and the president who promised to promote more domestic oil came across as a political obstructionist for blocking it due to…why exactly?...
read moreIt's the biggest news in fast food - Starbucks Frappuccinos have bugs. On purpose.The company has started using cochineal extract to supply its Frappuccinos’ strawberry color - hey, that beats using strawberries. The extract is derived by exploiting developing nation insects, namely grinding up the dried bodies of cochineal bugs found primarily in Mexico and South America. They...
read moreLast night, off the coast of Virginia, NASA launched five small rockets in five minutes as part of the ATREX (Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment), to test the winds of the upper atmosphere. The rockets flew up to a height of about 100 km (60 miles) and released a chemical that was blown by those winds, forming an amazing, milky, ghostly...
read moreCould the big split among anti-science hippies occur over a cute little cat?PETA loves animals. Greenpeace hates genetic modification and science in general because changes are only 'natural' if high-energy cosmic rays mutate things at random. What about when scientists use unnatural science to help save an endangered species?An African Black-footed Cat was born February 6, 2012, at...
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