Daily Archives: Mar 17, 2026

"The forced transfer of a sitting head of state to face US criminal charges is a legal story, but it is also an engineering-and-systems story. The operation described by US officials combined long-range aviation, electronic attack, intelligence fusion, and rapid custody transfer-then immediately rippled into aviation routing, energy logistics,...

One gallon per day is not the throughput expected from a refinery. It is, however, the claimed pace of a new class of compact machines that try to make gasoline without starting from petroleum by treating air, water and electricity as the feedstock. That ambition sits inside a broader industrial...

"A country can sit on the world's largest proven crude reserves and still become an energy bottleneck. Venezuela's oil patch-once a pillar of heavy-crude supply for U.S. refineries-spent years decaying under under investment, sanctions friction, and operational brain drain. The result is an industry that looks less like a...