The oil and gas from the North Sea is neither cheap nor plentiful. The cost of renewables continues to drop. And offer real energy independence. (View Post)

Japan has three stage solid fuel “space launchers”. And has for years. These are ICBMs, essentially. Japan has multiple metric tons of “civil” plutonium, large quantities of “military grade” plutoniu… (View Post)

No, they aren’t. The US oil refineries that could take Venezuelan oil have long been converted to other work. Converting back would be expensive - to take a feedstock that would be expensive and year… (View Post)

The Economist did that investigation years ago. The street level guys live a miserable existence - making far less than minimum wage. Irregular bursts of cash, and the get “taxed” by the gang bosses.… (View Post)

{narator în 2046} Little did the denizens of PB suspect, that it would be discovered that the jacket in the picture completely jams the AI optical targeting system in drones. As a result, today, repl… (View Post)