Decarbonising the energy grid requires market competition and diversified supply — not becoming fifth-columnists for Russian imperialism.
Author: Connor Tomlinson
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Could Outer Space be the Key to Expanding our Supply of Rare Metals?
Just as the original space race was a muscular assertion of the supremacy of American enterprise and industry, this new space resource scramble is motivated by the need to reduce reliance on our totalitarian adversaries. We were first to the moon to show the world that socialism is not the way. Now, we could be first to mine the stars, to put cleaner cars on our roads.
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Solving our Plastic Problem
Investment is needed in ingenious solutions to the existing pollution problem, and preventative strategies to ensure we can keep necessary living standards affordable for consumers, while reducing the intrusion of crude by-products into landfills, lakes, and dinner-plates.
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Socialism Cannot Solve Climate Change
The ideological pitfalls and abhorrent track record of socialism prove that its ideas are anathema to human nature, and inadequate for solving any climate change challenges.
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Will Britain’s Energy Security Strategy Deliver?
A combined strategy of repatriated gas production, and new nuclear power stations, can provide a consistent, dispatchable energy baseload for a diversified, decarbonising grid.
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You Don’t Have to Become a Vegan to Beat Climate Change
Only the innovation and efficiency arising to facilitate free choice should govern what fills our farms and bellies.
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Energy Consumption Controls Won’t Solve Scarcity
It’s time government stopped playing favourites with generation methods, and we abandon the notion that we can mandate and micromanage our way to a world worth living in.
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The UK Forges a Global Path to Nuclear Fusion
The Joint European Torus (JET) laboratory in the UK’s Culham Centre for Fusion Energy have broken records on energy extraction from hydrogen fusion.
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Britain Needs New Nuclear to End Reliance on China
Reforming nuclear regulations will help Britain reach net-zero goals, while lessening reliance on China.
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A Fully Green Grid: At What Cost?
Wind, solar, fission, and fusion must all comprise contributions to a carbon-neutral energy sector. But the government must not be in the business of monopolistically picking which companies or technologies will come out on top. Come rain or shine, renewables must be left to succeed or fail on their own merits.
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