“Potentially we can harness a colossal, inexhaustible and safe source of energy. However, we will only succeed in fusion energy and in solving other fundamental tasks if we establish broad international cooperation and interaction between government and business, and join the efforts of researchers representing different scientific schools and areas. If technological development becomes truly global, it will not be split up or reined in by attempts to monopolize progress, limit access to education and put up new obstacles to the free exchange of knowledge and ideas….”
Russian President Vladimir Putin
A Note To Readers
President Putin, above, addresses the fundamental question that shall determine war or peace in the years before us. A fuller report on his speech at the Global Manufacturing and Industrialization Summit in Yekaterinburg, Russia can be found in the last section below.
With little new to report on water developments in California, a few items on the state of drought on the West Coast, the status of the California reservoirs and a couple of items on weather and a study that forecasts for California serious water supply problems ahead. Of course, all such studies are forecasts that just present challenges that if we decide to stop being stupid are readily solvable.
Not generally mentioned for awhile is the proposed Sites reservoir, and off-stream reservoir that could store up to one million acre feet of water from abundant rain years like this one.
The Oroville Dam update has a couple of videos highlighting the completion of the repairs to the spillways.
Two articles provide an update on the Colorado River and its condition, and its future.
This headline, and others like it this week was too good to not run the coverage. Of course, there are a few complexities to the story: “Trees could reduce carbon in the atmosphere to levels not seen in nearly 100 years.”
Next is an update on the flooding in the mid-west and the building disaster for agriculture in the area.
We conclude this week’s report with three items that provide examples of “A Proper Approach to Real Economy.” The article on President Putin’s speech leads off this section.
