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Building a border wall would require seizing enormous amounts of land from thousands of landowners through eminent domain. This would take years to happen – if it ever did – because there would be a tsunami of lawsuits and resistance.…

Desalination produces drinking water from sea water and is widely used in the Middle East and North Africa. However, desal produces enormous amounts of brine, which is dumped back into the water supply. Desalination brine is terrible for marine life,…

The SCO has remained almost entirely silent about the Trump investigation. Yet in an extraordinary step, the Mueller investigation went public to refute parts of that Buzzfeed article, whose disingenuous (at best) research and reporting gave Trump a temporary victory.…

Renewable energy production from solar and wind isn’t steady 24/7 like coal or natural gas. Instead, production fluctuates. This has been problematic because the grid must always be in perfect balance between supply and demand. However grid-scale batteries are increasingly…

Potential liability from the Camp Fire is a primary reason for the coming PG&E bankruptcy. Should PG&E have turned off power to the Camp Fire area when the winds started to avoid potential power line fires? In retrospect, maybe yes.…