Resource Insights

I'm taking a holiday break this week and expect to post again on Sunday, December 3.

It is a common meme these days that humans are busy bringing about their own extinction. This is usually imagined to take the form of ...

The single most abundant element in the Earth's crust is oxygen making up 46.6 percent of the mass. The second most abun...

Back in 2009 I wrote a piece entitled "The unbearable lightness of information." Since then the information economy...

Miniaturization is a signal advance in modern electronics. The slogan has been "smaller, faster, cheaper, better." That has ...

The substance that constitutes a pencil lead and an important component of electric vehicle batteries is suddenly less available. Chin...

Swiss psychologist Carl Jung pointed out that when guilt is assigned to one person for a misdeed, it can weigh heavily on that person....

I'm taking a short break this week and expect to post again on Sunday, October 15.

A very observant longtime friend of mine opined recently that the clean energy economy is really just a metals energy economy where me...

Eleven years ago, I wrote about the how millions of holes drilled deep into American soil were already destined to pollute g...