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Lower Saxony’s Hydrogen Trains Are Now A Battery Exit Strategy Problem
Lower Saxony’s hydrogen trains will probably not be retired because a politician announces that battery-electric multiple units were the better technology. They will be retired when the bill arrives for extending the life of an underused, specialized hydrogen system and the state has to compare that cost with buying the … [continued]
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What Happens When The AI Power Industry Collapses?
I just wrote two articles on AI, and as YouTube has determined this is now what I’m interested in, I keep getting fed interesting videos on the topics I included in my two op-eds, so I keep watching/listening to more on this. Thinking about the topic more, though, and thinking … [continued]
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The Big Problem For AI Companies — They Don’t Have A Monopoly
I ended my last article with these lines: “Listen to cousin Ed and the gang talk about this for a few minutes in the video below. I’m going to move on to writing the second part of this two-part series, primarily because I think it’s a really big second point … [continued]
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“Circular” Financing in AI & Big Tech
We know about the old-school “Old Boys’ Club,” but that club is largely now the Big Tech Boys’ Club. Tech nerds created products that scaled super fast with relatively minimal capital expenditures and became billionaires. Once you have a billion dollars, you have to be really dumb and bad with … [continued]
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China’s Crude Oil Imports Fell in the Second Quarter
China, the world’s largest importer of crude oil, imported less crude oil in the second quarter of 2026 (2Q26) following higher crude oil prices that resulted from disrupted flows through the Strait of Hormuz. China’s lower imports reduced global demand, softening the upward price effects from the disrupted supply through … [continued]
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