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Showing posts with label Duggan Flanakin. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Duggan Flanakin: Mining the oceans for fresh water – and Uranium

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About 450,000 residents in the Corpus Christi (Texas) metropolitan area are primarily served by fresh water from two severely threatened res...
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Saturday, April 18, 2026

Duggan Flanakin: Is America on the verge of a nuclear renaissance?

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It has been more than seven years since President Donald Trump signed the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) into law –...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Duggan Flannakin: Forging and vaulting ahead for critical minerals

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While the nation was focused on an ongoing personal tragedy and the Super Bowl, representatives of 54 nations met last Wednesday in Washingt...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Duggan Flanakin: The U.S. re-enters the rare-earths race

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Hardly anyone in 1972 saw President Nixon’s decision to reopen diplomatic relations with the Peoples’ Republic of China as the beginning of ...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Duggan Flanakin: Japan tries out osmotic energy

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Residents of the Japanese coastal city of Fukuoka are pioneering the world’s first full-sized osmotic power plant — which generates electri...
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Monday, September 15, 2025

Duggan Flanakin: Are we on the threshold of commercial fusion?

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For how many years have we been told that nuclear fusion energy is just 20 or 30 years down the road? It is hard for the average guy to imag...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Duggan Flanakin: The U.S. Rediscovers a Valuable Trading Partner — Indonesia

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In the throes of the summer, the Trump administration announced an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade with the Republic of Indonesia — the world...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Duggan Flanakin: Regulating CO2 has led to global imbalances

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The global push to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant, based on the questionable premise that increasing CO2 concentrations in the atmos...
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Monday, August 18, 2025

Duggan Flanakin: Russia flexing nuclear energy muscles in Africa

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Through its state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom, Russia under Vladimir Putin has extended its tentacles deep into Africa. Early in th...
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Monday, August 11, 2025

Duggan Flanakin: China’s stolen mineral wealth – a product of genocide

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When the fledgling People’s Republic of China in 1949 annexed the central Asian region now known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, C...
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Monday, July 21, 2025

Duggan Flanakin: The Fusion Race Heats Up

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Nobody is saying it, but the advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning may be springboarding the increased intensity of the com...
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Sunday, January 19, 2025

Duggan Flanakin: Can the U.S. retake the lead in new nuclear energy?

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As of 2023, nearly one-quarter of the world’s nuclear reactors generating electricity were in the United States, which also boasts over a qu...
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Thursday, August 29, 2024

Duggan Flanakin: Greta versus the volcano

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As America’s “greenest” President (Joe Biden) fades into the sunset, one is reminded of the 1990 Tom Hanks blockbuster Joe Versus the Volcan...
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Monday, September 5, 2022

Duggan Flanakin: Net-Zero Is the Real Climate Catastrophe

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  Maybe Vladimir Putin SHOULD get the Nobel Peace Prize after all. To be sure, Putin’s bloody invasion of Ukraine is an affront to humanity,...
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