Manhattan Institute For Policy Research, May 2013 The world has changed since the passage of the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act, a law that set the tone for energy policy for nearly a half-century. Technology and demographics have eviscerated old ideas of limits and import dependency. Given the new abundance, the United States now…
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, October 2012 Which States Will Benefit?
Manhattan Institute Policy Paper The United States is the largest single supplier of grains, accounting for about 40 percent of global exports. We enjoy the associated trade, jobs, and revenue benefits that come from being the world’s breadbasket. Technology is now doing for the American energy and fuel sectors what it previously did for the…
Manhattan Institute POLICY WHITE PAPER, July 9, 2012 The United States, Canada, and Mexico are awash in hydrocarbon resources: oil, natural gas, and coal. The total North American hydrocarbon resource base is more than four times greater than all the resources extant in the Middle East. And the United States alone is now the fastest-growing producer…
That logic can become “digital is obvious. Mathematicians told us it could long before engineers delivered functioning digital computers. Three years ago, we began writing about a new concept –digital power, power under the control of systems so precise, so fast, that the power becomes as tractable, ordered, and determinate as digital logic.
We don’t normally begin with observations from TV correspondents, but James Oberg of NBC News has a rock-solid technical background, and his report came, coincidentally, in the middle of our own exploration of spectral imaging. “The search for debris from the space shuttle Columbia is receiving valuable support,” Oberg reported on March 27, “from a…
