For about an hour on July 17, 1955, the town of Arco, Idaho, ran entirely on nuclear power. Even though it only served only about 1,200 people, that moment deserves its place in the history books...
Iceland had a problem in 1973. For my older readers, this energy crisis may feel eerily similar. You see, roughly half of Icelandic homes were heated with imported oil, and they relied on foreign...
Eighteen years ago, a rocket carrying nothing of particular value reached orbit. Not ringing a bell? It was the fourth flight of the Falcon 1 on September 28, 2008. Granted, the first three failed...
Four years ago, the U.S. and its allies did something that they’ve never really done before at such a scale. They froze about $300 billion of someone else’s money...
Today, the United States operates more nuclear reactors than any other country on Earth. Most people probably don’t realize this fact, but what’s even more intriguing to us is the fact that we...
We often talk about the disconnect between Washington and reality when it comes to the energy sector. After all, many political careers live or die by the sword of energy prices. When times are...
Can things possibly get worse for Saudi Arabia right now? Before you answer, just keep in mind where they’re sitting currently. There’s no question that the House of Saud has absolutely...
Elon Musk just can’t take his eyes off of one very specific 16-inch pipe. In fact, he’s so enraptured by this pipe that he had to give it its own branding. Musk calls it Starpipe.
Close your eyes, and picture a drill rig sitting on a mesa in New Mexico, grinding down through granite that hasn't seen daylight in a billion years. The year is 1974. We’ve been entrenched in...
The story of strategic minerals is a long, deep trip into history. At any time or any place, chances are you’ll find a war over critical resources...
There’s a good chance that you’ve never heard of a Navy admiral named Hyman Rickover About 70 years ago, he ran the tightest program the U.S. military had ever seen up to that point...
Eighty feet beneath Liberty Street, resting on the bedrock of Manhattan Island, there's a room with a hundred and twenty-two compartments in it. Every one of them is numbered rather than named. Not...
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