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Barbarians at the gate: Reflections on the decline of American innovation while watching a spectacular sunset at Gantry Park

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        Despite the recent spectacular scientific achievement of DARPA (US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) on a hypersonic glider traveling at 13,000 miles per hour, American innovation, like this Mach 20 glider, is on a downward path towards unknown depths, with profound ramifications to our economic and political status among nations.  We all know intuitively … Read more

FRACKING Revisited: What lies ahead (or beneath) and the idea of a FRACKING CHALLENGE

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Last summer, precisely six month ago, I wrote a blog article on hydraulic fracturing at the height one of the contentious periods between the industry and the public about this issue.  The adversarial relationship between the two groups have not abated since, maybe just dampened for now by the piles of snow on the ground, … Read more