Don’t Downgrade Space February 16, 2021
Early indications from the Oval Office suggest that the Biden administration places less importance on space policy than did the Trump administration. This is dangerous, and risks squandering momentum in a crucial area of economic and national security importance.
President Biden’s Feb. 4 memorandum on “Renewing the National Security Council System” notably ignores the National Space Council. The consensus among experts is that this memorandum portends the dissolution of the council, whose functions would likely absorbed by the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP, which the Biden administration has elevated to a cabinet-level position.
White House Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy recently made some controversial comments about climate change and Midwest farmers. Sen. Grassley wants to show her otherwise.
31 Jan 2021
President Joe Biden’s Green New Deal is an ‘impossible clusterf .’ You probably knew this already but below are the raw details.
If you only read one article in your lifetime about how the Green New Deal is an impossible clusterf read this one.https://t.co/9wcoi11L96
If the world is to wean itself off fossil fuels and go “carbon neutral” by 2050, here is what might possibly need to be done:
To summarize: to get the world to zero emissions by 2050, our options are to build, commission, and bring on-line either:
• One 2.1 gigawatt (GW, 10
9 watts) nuclear power plant each and every day until 2050, OR